Integrating Operations Tracking and Process Flow Control across the Industrial Enterprise

SmartOpsMgt provides software to enable systems integrators to add real-time automated job and materials tracking and process flow control capabilities to networks of manufacturing plants and distribution warehouses as well as to individual plants, warehouses, construction and other field sites.

SmartOpsMgt’s SmartOps24x7 software enables orders, such as for receiving, transforming, making and shipping materials, to be distributed to work centers in different manufacturing plants and warehouses. It then collects the resultant transactional data, integrates it, and forwards the resultant job and materials tracking & traceability information to ERP and other systems in a data center or the Cloud.

Software capabilities include performing real-time automated data collection in multiple manufacturing plants and warehouses, using technologies such as barcode scanning, mobile computing and RFID. Capabilities also include providing real-time status data for ERP and generative AI based agents, which perform decision support and other operations management functions.

At the core of SmartOps24x7 is the SmartOpsTracker software, which runs on a Windows IOT (Internet of Things) Enterprise based computer in each manufacturing plant or warehouse.

This software integrates real-time barcode data collection, job and materials tracking, materials traceability with intelligent agent technology for exchanging information with other systems as well as sending email alerts and reports to a distribution list of people people.

These SmartOpsTracker systems can be run stand-alone or integrated into an enterprise-wide order distribution and transactional data collection infrastructure, using the SmartOps24x7 Enterprise Integrator software running on a central Windows Server.

 The Integrator enables production orders, issued by an ERP or AI system to be sent to the SmartOpsTracker system in each manufacturing plant and warehouse. It also collects the resultant status data and makes it available in near-real-time to an ERP or AI based Decision Support System which serve the whole enterprise.

SmartOpsMgt also provides software for adding RFID data collection, automatically printing barcode labels on demand, and interfacing with process control equipment, such as weighing scales, at each site. These all run in small Windows IOT based computers.

Using IOT computers on-premises at each site  enables production operations to continue running reliably 24x7 even if the internet or your data center is down. They also enable rapid data entry while providing real-time point-of-action feedback when a production worker is about to make an operational mistake.

Each SmartOpsTracker system pays for itself in a few weeks by improving the efficiency of existing production workers doing data collection and making it easy for their managers to analyze the resultant data. It also avoids the need for duplicate data entry into multiple systems.

Software subscription prices for each SmartOpsTracker system start at under $1,000 per month , with a proven capability to save labor hours equivalent to the time of between one and six people per site at a typically cost over $6,000 per month per person in wages and benefits.

Developing software such as SmartOps24x7 to reliably control industrial operations as well as capture and Integrate data in real-time from a large number of sources, at multiple sites, is a complex real-time systems problem that required a significant amount of specialized knowledge.

SmartOpsMgt’s SmartOps24x7 software suite has taken several million dollars and over two decades of practical deployment experience to develop. It is based on research into distributed real-time AI funded by DARPA, the US Air Force, and NASA.

This software, which is highly customizable and designed for integration with other software, is now being made available for licensing by systems integrators to integrate into their own systems as an alternative to developing their own software and specialized expertise.

SmartOpsMgt licenses the SmartOps24x7 software to end-user manufacturers and industrial distributors through its industrial systems integrator partner channel. These partners include barcode and RFID equipment resellers as well as organizations that support ERP systems and, more recently, implement generative AI solutions. These partners also provide the needed training and end-customer support as well as the needed equipment.

SmartOpsMgt provides technical support to these systems integrators but deliberately does not provide end-user training or support to manufacturers and distributors nor does it sell equipment or supplies, as this is the function of our system integrator partners.

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