Indus­try 4.0
in manufacturing

Trace­abil­i­ty through dig­i­ti­za­tion of production 

With the new man­u­fac­tur­ing man­age­ment soft­ware, a QR code is gen­er­at­ed at the begin­ning of the work process and attached to the respec­tive com­po­nent. In the work­shop, this QR code can be read with a hand-held scan­ner and the CAD draw­ing appears on an attached screen. After com­ple­tion, this must be con­firmed in the soft­ware and the con­struc­tion of a new prod­uct can begin. Con­fir­ma­tion from man­u­fac­tur­ing has the advan­tage that the man­u­fac­tur­ing sta­tus of each com­po­nent, across the var­i­ous process steps, can now be tracked and record­ed live.

The new man­u­fac­tur­ing man­age­ment soft­ware includes a sys­tem con­trol with user and rights man­age­ment. This allows dif­fer­ent users to be grant­ed dif­fer­ent rights. As already described, dig­i­tal QR codes are gen­er­at­ed and print­ed from the soft­ware. In clear­ly arranged forms, the man­u­fac­tur­ing sta­tus of the com­po­nents is dis­played dur­ing the entire pro­duc­tion and can also be man­aged from there.

A wide range of sta­tis­tics on assem­blies, projects and any prod­uct char­ac­ter­is­tics can be dis­played and ana­lyzed over a desired peri­od of time to con­tin­u­ous­ly opti­mize production.

The employ­ees in the work­shop also have the option to enter com­ments on the pro­duc­tion of the com­po­nent. In this way, spe­cial fea­tures or prob­lems can be record­ed and traced over a long peri­od of time. Every night, a report is auto­mat­i­cal­ly stored on the in-house serv­er for doc­u­men­ta­tion pur­pos­es. This report, with freely defin­able con­tent, con­tributes to the trace­abil­i­ty of pro­duc­tion and thus to com­pli­ance with cer­tain standards.