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Simplify Data Entry Using Bar Codes

Simplify Data Entry Using Bar Codes. Mickie Dell Architect, May 17, 2006. Learning Points. Discover ways to use bar codes on the shop floor Learn some of the benefits how bar coding helps the production execution process Bar coding without a budget. Simplify Data Entry Using Bar Codes.

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Simplify Data Entry Using Bar Codes

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  1. Simplify Data Entry Using Bar Codes Mickie Dell Architect, May 17, 2006

  2. Learning Points • Discover ways to use bar codes on the shop floor • Learn some of the benefits how bar coding helps the production execution process • Bar coding without a budget

  3. Simplify Data Entry Using Bar Codes • Areas where bar coding can be used within Manufacturing • Benefits to the Production Execution Process • Review of the tools required • ‘How to Make it Happen’

  4. Common Uses for Bar Coding • Receipt of material from vendors • Issue of material to production order • Production order confirmation • Move material into/around/out of warehouse • Issue on a FIFO basis • Confirm delivery notes and create shipping documents • Post shipments • Movement of tooling throughout factory

  5. Tools • Hand held devices • Batch input through docking stations • Real time utilizing RF • Permanent placement • Key board wedge readers • “Check-out” scanner attached to a computer • Bar coding fonts • Label and form printers capable of printing bar codes

  6. Benefits to Manufacturing Operations • Easier for operators to use: not a computer but using a handheld gun or wand • Eliminate data entry mistakes • More timely data entry

  7. Bar Coding without a Budget • The ‘Solution’ does not have to be technically challenging • Determine a process where numerous data entry errors have occurred • Goods movement (COGI) • Time reporting • Operation quantity • Purchase a keyboard wedge • Create some data entry bar coding templates • Use Microsoft Office Excel with a bar code font to create the bar code field values • Populate template with default bar coded values for input • Print the template and train the users

  8. Bar Coding without a Budget • Monitor the number of data entry errors to measure the success • This process can become the basis for developing a business case to support a enhanced bar coding solution

  9. Creating Bar Codes on Shop Floor Documents • Add bar codes to Smart Forms documents • Production Order • Goods Receipt Tickets • Warehouse Transfer Order • Warehouse Pick Tickets • Purchase bar coding chips for laser printers • Prepare screen variants • Look for opportunities to utilize pre-printed input templates • Production Order Confirmation both individual and collective • Reasons for scrap

  10. Capital Budget - RFI • The key to success = Automate! Automate! Automate! • Become mobile where everything is wireless • Prepare for a technology investment • Label printers • Docking stations • Portable scanners • Technology infrastructure will be required to support the solution • Organization learning curve

  11. Key Learnings • Data input errors can be drastically reduced with a focused effort • Bar Coding can be done without a big budget • Prepare for a technology investment if RF is required

  12. Q & A Mickie Dell Architect Hitachi Consulting www.hitachiconsulting.com Direct: 303.813.6088 Mobile: 303.746.0222 mdell@hitachiconsulting.com Inspiring your next success! ®

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