Production tracking in light manufacturing relies on manual floor walks, scattered status updates, and spreadsheet entry, consuming hours daily and leaving management with stale data.
Automation ingests real-time status updates from the shop floor, detects bottlenecks instantly, and surfaces actionable alerts to the right person. The team gains live visibility into WIP, eliminates manual data entry, and catches delays before they cascade.
The full workflow, from trigger to completion.
A new job status is submitted via a form, message, or API call from the shop floor system, triggering the automation.
The automation extracts job ID, stage, timestamp, and operator name from the incoming message and validates against known job list.
The validated status is written directly to the live WIP tracking sheet, updating job position, stage, and timestamp in real time.
The automation compares the job's current stage duration against predefined thresholds and checks if it is blocking downstream jobs.
If a bottleneck is detected, an immediate alert is sent to the supervisor and relevant team lead with job details and recommended action.
All status changes and alerts are logged to an audit table for compliance, troubleshooting, and historical analysis.
A summary notification is sent to all subscribed managers, showing updated WIP snapshot and any new alerts.
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