ISOM Systems Technology
An ISOM system, such as
WIPtracker ,
for a single manufacturing plant or warehouse typically contains the following elements:
- An operations tracking system to automate the real-time capture of job and materials tracking data thereby eliminating the need to record
data using paper forms and Excel spreadsheets. Also performs mistake prevention and provides managers and their staff members with a real-time
view of the status of all their jobs and materials.
- A web-browser interface for real-time data capture,
typically using barcode scanners attached to PCs or wireless mobile scanners with integral barcode scanners.
- An operations tracking database, which tracks the current status of jobs and materials as well as the history of all tracking events,
including materials traceability data as to which materials were used to make which products.
- A set of periodically scheduled intelligent agent processes that can be
controlled using Python scripts to provide real-time business intelligence to operations managers
and their staff, as well as eliminating much of their "intelligent grunt work" by:
- Monitoring the database to spot when there are problems, such as inventory shortages or jobs running late, that mangers need to address,
and then sending alert Emails to the mangers or their staff.
- Automatically exchanging data with external ERP, CRM and supply-chain system thereby eliminating the need for manual data entry or duplicate data entry in multiple systems.
- Automatically creating reports for senior management, quality control, security, customers and other stake holders and then delivering these by Email.
- Automatically generating and sending files, such as in EDI and EPCIS formats, needed by trading partners.
- A Web-Services interface, which provides secure encrypted access to the operations tracking database for external systems, including a wide-range of ERP systems.
This interface is also used by add-on WIPtracker IOT boxes for applications such as dynamic barcode label printing and automatically collecting weighing scale
and other process control information.
These enable an ISOM system to track the flow of jobs and materials in real-time through industrial operations in
response to orders entered locally or imported from other systems.
ISOM intelligent agents can then automatically perform the "intelligent grunt work" that can consume so much time of operations
managers and their staff.
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