PMC is used by discrete and process manufacturing facilities offering extended flexible and adaptability to a variety of shop floor management processes and variable data collection methods and devices including web-based shop floor Kiosks. These devices are used for attendance, production tracking. Activity execution transactions reported at the workplace are validated and edited in real-time for accurate and timely work in progress status reporting. Order dispatch generates job details (routings for execution at a specific work-center or work-cell (machine). Dispatch functions are used with the TOS web terminal (kiosk) allowing display of execution details (routings) in a full-size multi-line display. Dispatch details are varied and contain at minimum work order, operation, part number, standard time, demand quantity ... etc. Its primary function is to eliminate the use of bar-coded paper routers and reduce documents handling errors. Operations are dispatched by scheduling priority and sequence of execution as released by a manufacturing planning system. WIP is an activity-based shop floor information tracking system applied in both discrete and continuous process industries to provide production management with an online view of work in progress and production status. This view is achieved with actual in-process information tracked at the workplace depicting workflow and cycle run status, labor utilization, in-progress material flow, material position, and machine run/idle status throughout the production cycle.
