Workstation Digital Reporting at an Auto-parts Plant
An auto-parts plant deployed industrial PDAs as workstation reporting terminals with scan-and-report data written to MES in real time.
Customer Scenario & Pain Points
The customer, an auto-parts manufacturer, relied on paper slips for line reporting with lagging data and untimely MES entries.
Line progress was opaque, quality traceability was only day-level, and manual entry caused errors and backfilling.
Solution
Industrial PDAs were deployed at key workstations for scan-and-report, with batch/fixture/inspection data written to MES in real time.
Industrial PCs run line dashboards showing equipment status and progress, with quality data bound to batches for full traceability.
Results
Real-time reporting improved significantly, line progress became minute-level visible, traceability reached batch and workstation level, and manual errors dropped markedly.