Each operator books onto the press with a barcoded badge. The press operator can see the queue of operations for that press on his screen, and starts the next operation when he begins to set the press. The barcode on each pallet of raw material used is scanned. When a stillage of mouldings is full, the operator informs the system which then allocates a unique number to the stillage and prints a stillage label at the press. In this way the raw materials which went into each stillage of mouldings can be traced.
Operators can record scrap, or quarantine suspect parts at the press as soon as they have been made.
As the stillage of parts moves from operation to operation its barcode is scanned at the start and finish of each operation performed on it. Thus production managers can see the location and status of every stillage in the plant at any time. After the last operation on a stillage the Stock Control module again suggests a stores location for it. Having marshalled stillages of finished parts ready for despatch to the customer, the storeman scans the barcode on each stillage to construct a despatch note. This results in accurate despatch notes with full traceability from a despatch note back to the raw materials.