Shop floor control is a system with methods and tools used to track, schedule, and report the progress of the work in a manufacturing unit.
The better the shop floor control, the better the inventory and operations control and the better is workers’ productivity. Therefore, the performance of a manufacturing company varies directly in proportion to the shop floor control.
That’s why shop floor control is crucial for any manufacturing, assembling or processing business. It helps you to see what is happening in real-time. Nowadays, manufacturing is changing, and there are many moving parts between workers’ mistakes. Without proper planning, mistakes are bound to happen. Therefore the main task of shop floor management is to increase efficiency and quality in production sustainably.