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Shop Floor Control Print E-mail
An efficient shop floor is critical to a sign manufacturer's competitive advantage. dataSIGN Shop Floor Control helps you manage your production activites so resources stay focused and jobs are delivered on time.

Production Scheduling

Through Work Orders, dataSIGN establishes what needs to be done, who will do it, and when it should be completed. As Work Orders are created individual routing sequences are established and scheduled, and component material requirements are identied as dependent demand on the Work Order.
  • On-demand job tracking – view labor instructions, material requirements, and drawings right on a monitor in the shop
  • Real-time reporting of Job status
  • Production Calendar
  • Monitor department load versus capacity, and easily re-balance
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Capacity Planning


Optimize your long-term production capacity through dataSIGN's powerful capacity planning tools. Create "what-if" scenarios to determine what resources are needed based on actual and planned work.

CRP allows you to:
  • Calculate and project input work requirements from existing and planned work orders
  • Plan output by department by shift
  • Control first operation departments so that work is released at a smooth rate
  • Determine future hours available on the machines in the production facility
Labor and Time Tracking

dataSIGN gives you flexible methods for collecting and tracking work performed by your shop floor staff.
  • Traditional time card labor entry
  • Real-time labor entry and job tracking
  • Optional integration with data collection tools (barcodes or badges)
  • Automatically update production status based on hours entered
  • Directly tied to payroll interface
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