>Hi Everyone,
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>For a manufacturer or metal parts, I need to register job information for each employee.
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>In more detail I require the job number the employee id number, the machine/procedure number the time started, the time completed, and the total quantity of items produced/completed, for every employee for every job on the production floor. There are almost 45 employees at three different sites, for the same manufacturer.
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>The job's come from a purchase order entry module.
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>I am considering barcode scanning. Does anyone have a cost effective idea on how to gather all this information, preferably using barcodes on employee id badges, withour adding to many computers to the production floor?
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I'd just add a wedge scanner to each PC, wedge scanned input comes in as if it had been keyed to a form. It's then just a matter of having created appropriate barcoded data that can be reliably read.