Manufacturing Barcode Scanning

Here's a quick tip for manufacturing. Put a barcode label on your product and see how long it takes to go through the manufacturing process.

Using Barcode Scanners

Scan the bar code when it starts, and every time it hits a new person.

You'll see exactly who touched it, how long they took, and the total time for completion. You might even see times for each stage, depending on the other information you scan.

"We did this"
"And now we're giggling happy about what we found"

Are you guessing at how long your manufacturing process takes? If you've been at it for a long time, then you probably have a pretty good guess. But still, this give you the hard numbers. How about which employee is fastest? Or which product takes the most time? Divisions and departments? Individual serial numbers? All that is trackable with barcodes, and it's pretty easy. Now you can re-align priorities, adjust schedules, and change course. Isn't that what you've been asking for?

If you can measure it, you can improve it. Watch a bar code whiteboard video here.

Other barcoding videos:

    1. A Whiteboard overview of the process, step-by-step

    2. A detailed introduction to bar code scanning for manufacturing

    3. In depth barcode scanning, with everything you need

"We didn't have to get the ax out"
"We just got smarter"

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