We are currently using shop floor data collection with touch screens. The hardware is more expensive however, you enable your employees to retrieve much more information from within Vantage. For example, with the shop floor software and a touch screen employees can perform functions such as requesting material, looking up job status, verifying labor transactions, creating move tickets and much more. With the other option which is the keypad terminal you are restricted to two lines of data for input and output.
I would definitely recommend going with the touch screen option.
In regards to data collection as a whole, if you are not currently using this I would highly recommend it. This eliminates the need for manual data entry and gives you real time access to what is happening on the shop floor. Once the user community sees how easy it is to perform they will be glad to stop the manual recording of data.
One final comment is that Vantage is equipped with several alerts that will warn you if data is not being recorded properly or based on your criteria which will help during the learning phase.
I would definitely recommend going with the touch screen option.
In regards to data collection as a whole, if you are not currently using this I would highly recommend it. This eliminates the need for manual data entry and gives you real time access to what is happening on the shop floor. Once the user community sees how easy it is to perform they will be glad to stop the manual recording of data.
One final comment is that Vantage is equipped with several alerts that will warn you if data is not being recorded properly or based on your criteria which will help during the learning phase.
----- Original Message -----
From: jzabilka
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:23 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Shop floor data collection / Real-time piece reporting
My company is currently looking at going to shop floor data collection
and real time piece reporting. Are there any Vantage users out there
that currently do this, or have done this in the past. What are the
pro's/con's? What data collection software are you using? What about
touch screens compared to the use of keyboards?
Please email me offline with any comments you have about this issue.
Jennifer Mesiano
Technifast Industries
630-221-2614 (direct)
jmesiano@...
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