SmartOps24x7- Tracking your Jobs and Materials Like a Hawk

In the USA, we are currently short of over 500,000 people to work in manufacturing, with the shortage expected to double by 2030. To help manufacturers and industrial distributors run their operations with fewer people, SmartOpsMgt™ assembles and rents industrial IOT (Internet of Things) appliances  in the USA, under the name SmartOps24x7™. These appliances enable manufacturers and industrial distributors to track and manage the flow of jobs and materials through their operations in real-time more efficiently and with less time required. This enables more throughput with existing people rather than trying to hire additional experienced people from a rapidly shrinking pool of available and willing workers.

At the core of the SmartOps24x7 product line is the SmartOpsTracker™ IOT appliance, which integrates real-time barcode data capture and "License Plate" tracking of containers, including nested containers, such as pallets, serialized items, such as dimensioned rolls and reels of materials, and job related assets such as tools, equipment and Government Furnished Equipment (GFE).

A major benefit of SmartOpsTracker is that it enables mangers to keep track of their jobs and materials in real-time. It can also alerts them by Email or text message when critical events occur that they need to pay attention to.

SmartOpsTracker performs materials traceability, is FDA compliant, and has interfaces to support automated data exchange with a wide variety of of ERP, accounting, CRM, generative AI chat bots, and other systems such as those of upstream and downstream trading partners.

SmartOpsTracker imports materials receiving, movement, manufacturing, picking. packing and shipping orders from external systems, records the resultant transactions performed by production and warehouse workers in real-time, and then automatically exchanges the captured transactional data with these external systems.

SmartOpsTracker is a small, affordable, easy to use real-time job and materials tracking system that runs reliably 24x7 on-premises to enable small and mid-sized manufacturing enterprises to track their jobs and materials much more efficiently with fewer people, much less paperwork and far lower overhead costs.

Does this require the use of some very-expensive generative AI software running at a vulnerable remote data center over an increasingly unreliable internet? No, thanks to the investment made by DARPA, the USAF, and NASA we are now able to run SmartOpsTracker on a computer that fits in the palm of your hand, Running reliably 24x7 at your site even if the Internet goes down or the data center you use goes off-line.

Is this some newly-developed experimental AI software? No, the software in SmartOpsTracker has been evolved over the past two decades in a wide-range of industrial applications, from making curtain-wall windows for skyscrapers, tracking the assembly of subsystems for new data centers, detecting counterfeit pharmaceuticals, and helping keep our food supply-chains safe. This is a product built by manufacturing people for manufacturing people.

Is SmartOpsTracker expensive? No, it pays for itself in a few weeks in labor savings. Rental prices start at $900 per month, with a proven capability to save the need for multiple production and warehouse people who would otherwise cost over $6,000 per month each in salary and benefits. Typical monthly cost savings experienced by users of the software in SmartOpsTracker range from $6,000 to $36,000 per month per plant or warehouse for a rental cost of between $1,000 and $3,000 per month

 Is SmartOpsTracker easy to use? Yes, the needed software comes preinstalled on an IOT computer, ready to plug-and-play into your local area network, ready for keeping track of your jobs, materials, and customer orders in real-time. Then, when needed, it has the capability to automatically exchange data with a wide-range of ERP and accounting systems as well as to automatically exchange data with supplier and customer systems.

Even more important, we make it easy for production and warehouse workers (as well as managers and supervisors) who are not super computer literate, or for whom English is a second language, to capture and process the tracking data. This is done using embedded AI methods to guide and lead users through each process and procedure, and to check for operational and data collection mistakes at each step of the way, providing real-time point-of-action warnings before and not after expensive operational mistakes are made.

Will SmartOpsTracker meet my organization's specific needs? Yes SmartOpsTracker is specifically designed to be customized by your manufacturing engineers or IT support people or, if needed, by one of our systems integration partners.

What if we need to exchange data from multiple manufacturing plants and warehouses at different geographic locations with a central ERP system, or more recently with a central generative AI system? The SmartOps24x7 IOT Enterprise Integrator appliance, running at your data center, supports integration of multiple SmartOpsTracker systems into an enterprise wide operations tracking and management system. It can also provide an integrated real-time view, for senior managers, of what is happening right now in all their plants and warehouses, including providing alerts when there are trouble spots that need their attention.

What if we need to use RFID tracking, print labels and tags on demand, or automatically exchange data with weighing scales and process control line equipment? The SmartOps24x7 product line also has IOT boxes to support this.

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