LineWorks WIP - Work in Process Tracking
LineWorks WIP is the tool for tracking and monitoring jobs and material throughout the enterprise manufacturing process, offering views from the bird's-eye view right down to the individual process steps of each job.
LineWorks WIP can be used independently or integrated with existing Production Planning (PPS) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems. LineWorks WIP supports production control and the monitoring of material flow (orders, charges, lots or serial numbers), and is the key element in a reliable production environment.
LineWorks WIP allows managers or engineers to track jobs within shopfloor production areas in various industries. "Work in Process Tracking" means monitoring the previous, current and future process steps, with regard to the numbers of good, failed an scrapped parts resulting from each individual process step
LineWorks WIP Features
Tracking production units during manufacturing
- Advanced dispatch lists
- Job split and merge
- Carrier management, e.g. SMIF pod
- Identifiable and non-identifiable subsets
- Standard jobs or development jobs for new products
- Freeze the process plan after job creation or extend it during production
Verifying process steps and used materials
- Notification of stopped jobs (Lot On Hold) and rework
- Optional process steps
- Rework with flexible capabilites for repair and re-process
- Alternative process step sequences
- Provides data for verification of used material
- Traceability of used material during production
Documenting manufacturing
- Computer-based guaranteed backtracing for related production data
- Displaying and recording the current production status of each job
- Calculation of various indexes: yield, cycle time, throughput, rework
- Loss and loss rate statistics
- Separation of current and historic data as well as data cleanup routines for optimal data storage
