Shop Floor Control Shop Floor Control Keeping Track of Your Totes Assembly and fabrication operations have found a new tool for production control. Even order fulfillment can be enhanced with this new tool. These colorful little tubs are used to move all manner of things through a plant and deliver them to the right work station at the right time. The control of the tub is accomplished with bar codes, fixed mount scanners and a computer system that keeps deliveries correct and on time. In such a system, the bar code label should not be the weak link.
Labels printing in-house can become gremlins.
Two problems can occur. First, normal wear and tear in a plant environment can compromise the face of the label, making it unreadable. Second, not all adhesives perform well on the slick surface of these durable plastic tubs. Unlike most thermal transfer imaged bar code labels, Watson's process employs an exciting new digital photocolor imaging technique. This method not only produces the highest bar code grades, but it can also image in color.