On-line shop floor information system

Abstract

Manufacturing information plays a crucial role in manufacturing business. How to confirm the right information reach to right person and how to feedback real time manufacturing information to right person are part of key areas in manufacturing business. Database management system and network technologies are very important for an organization, especially for manufacturing company. If applied appropriately, the operating cost can be significantly reduced and quality data system can be improved. This thesis is not a technical report on how to write database software programme. It concentrates on how to apply database management. The thesis tries to identify the possible problems of manufacturing documentation and feedback information problems and come out a solution pattern. As a result of the thesis, a shop floor information system was developed and implemented in a monitor and computer manufacturing company. The shop floor information system is based on data base management system and network technology. The shop floor information has many types such as production data, quality data, inventory data, so on and so forth. However, in this thesis, only production data and quality data are researched. The comparison between the production performance from the developed method and existing method shows that operating cost was significantly reduced.