Shop Floor Data Collection
Shop Floor Data Collection
FACTIVITY’s Shop Floor Data Collection Software (SFDC) provides the best MES Manufacturing Execution System software which is easy-to-install and easier-to-use. Designed and developed from its inception for touch screens with our own unique operator push button user interface UI providing you with the best factory UX…user experience available today.
FACTIVITY is used by thousands of factory floor workers every day throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Our Manufacturing Execution System MES software solution is a paperless factory solution which provides in depth factory floor visibility and control.
This intuitive operator interface software has been time tested and proven to maximize your ROI. It is a plug and play shop floor solution…or FACTIVITY can be configured (by non-technical users) to your specific requirements and match your own lean manufacturing objectives.
Data Collection Terminals
FACTIVITY was built from inception as a touch screen approach to capture factory floor and job shop information. You can save large amounts of money by eliminating the need for RF bar code readers and still receive all the benefit of a simple, low cost, factory network using the latest in tablet hardware.
What are the things that bother you about your current approach to shop floor management?
- Do you suffer from a lack of visibility to all jobs?
- Still using paper based documents, such as, spreadsheets to keep track of work?
- Do you know what the performance is on all your machines right now?
- Do you question the accuracy of your labor time…and costs?
- How much will be completed today?
- Can you accurately predict when jobs will be completed and ready for shipment?
- Can you identify bottleneck operations as demand changes?
- Do you have inaccurate inventory balances?
- Are material variances too high?
Through inexpensive tablets and/or touch screens, operators interact with FACTIVITY’s paperless work order and paperless job packets. Expensive RF bar code readers are not required and no barcode time tracking is required. Through your tablet data collection terminals, operators can sign in/out of the factory and in/out of jobs at the touch of a single button in a fast and simplified manner.
This productivity tracking software system provides clear visibility of all factory activity and creates a unique factory time study for each job as it travels the floor. Bottleneck activity is captured without the operator involvement to help management eliminate bottleneck operations in production. From the time work orders are released into the system until FACTIVITY puts parts into finished good inventory, our MES solution:
- Tracks labor time for any specific or all of your routings steps
- Measures productivity in real time
- Provides detail scrap reporting with reason codes
- Captures accurate downtime reporting with reason codes
- Displays dashboards on one or all machines
- Produces OEE and other analytics and KPI factory metrics
- Provides drill down evaluation of a single plant
- Multi-plant data warehouse of metrics to compare all your production facilities
Within weeks of installing our best MES software, you will:
- Account for materials/components in a more controlled and accurate manner
- Have automatic paperless backflushing to your ERP system
- Keep WIP as was as raw material and finished goods inventory up-to-the-minute in real time as work is completed
- Improve labor management and factory accountability
- Improve productivity with production dashboards
- Improve on time delivery
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Frequently Asked Questions
FACTIVITY captures the full range of activity data that production management needs: labor time by job and operation, production quantities reported at each routing step, scrap with reason codes, downtime with reason codes, material usage against the bill of materials, and job progress from work order release through completion into finished goods. This data is captured in real time as operators interact with touch screen terminals at their work centers — no paper, no manual entry after the fact, and no delay between activity and visibility.
FACTIVITY's operator interface was designed from the ground up for factory floor use — not adapted from an office software tool. Operators interact through large, colorful touch screen buttons that guide them through the data collection process step by step. Signing in and out of jobs requires a single button press. The interface doesn't require operators to read complex screens or navigate menus. Customers consistently report that operators can be fully trained and productive within two hours of first use, which makes deployment practical even in plants with high turnover or mixed literacy levels.
FACTIVITY creates a unique time study for each job as it moves through the floor — capturing queue time, setup time, run time, and wait time at every work center automatically, without requiring operators to log anything extra. This gives management a continuous view of where work is piling up and where throughput is falling below expected rates. Part Flow Analysis in FACTIVITY's KPI reporting surfaces bottleneck operations as they develop, so supervisors can respond in real time rather than discovering the problem at end of shift.
No. FACTIVITY was specifically designed to eliminate the need for RF barcode readers, which require printed paper labels and add cost per terminal. Instead, operators use inexpensive touch screen tablets and PCs — available for under $100 per terminal — to interact with the system. This approach is both lower cost and more sustainable than barcode-based systems. Barcode printing is available as an add-on capability for label generation when needed, but it's not required for the core data collection workflow.
FACTIVITY provides automatic paperless backflushing to the ERP as work is completed at each routing step. This means WIP, raw material, and finished goods inventory in the ERP updates in real time as production progresses — without manual data entry by production staff or end-of-shift batch updates. The result is that ERP inventory records reflect the actual state of the factory floor continuously, which improves the accuracy of MRP calculations, reduces inventory discrepancies, and eliminates the reconciliation work that paper-based or delayed reporting creates.