Some details
The Situation
- A manufacturing client had a variety of unreliable systems in place to collect data from multiple plant shop floors
- Inaccurate production and inventory data was being sent to financial reporting systems affecting ongoing business decisions
- Various workarounds were being used by shop floor workers and plant managers
- There was a critical need for real time
The Solution
- Brainspire created an easy to use system which integrated with shop floor components to automatically collect reliable data
- An extensible architecture was created with the ability to add new plants and new types of materials
- Brainspire leveraged 3rd party software for real time data collection from shop floor machines including flow meters, cameras, scanners, and scales
- Brainspire built a scheduling interface to pull data from SAP to tell the shop floor operators when and how much of each product to make
The Benefit
- A new intuitive interface allowed shop floor employees to adopt the new systems quickly with minimal training
- Data collection errors were eliminated from shop floor machines by reducing manual processes
- Data accuracy of “materials used” and “inventory created” improved in the client’s financial data
- The system was expended to 37 plants across the United States
