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Question

live updating board applications

Apr 27, 2017 7:53AM PDT

Maybe someone has a little knowledge that they can share. I am looking for a program that can be seen/accessed from many stations that will allow us to track the progress of orders. From creating an order, through the manufacturing process and finally to shipping so that at any given time we would know where that order should be. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: program
Apr 27, 2017 8:30AM PDT

That's more than a little bit vague.

Let's say you want a program that shows all details of all orders at the same time on many (how many?) screens (like on an airport, where you see the same info about airplanes leaving the next 2 hours at many screens).
Then there are 2 different things you are looking for:
1. A program that shows all details of all orders on one screen.
2. Hardware that duplicates those contents to many other screens.

But maybe you want something completely different? Like an ERP system connected to 100 PC's all around the factory where 100 staff members can enter all they do on an orders and via some workflow and scheduling system get new instructions for their next order.

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live board
Apr 27, 2017 9:06AM PDT

Mostly what we need this for is when an order is finished in a department (i.e. engineering, fab, welding, etc.), the supervisor can mark this as done. It also would help for it to be networked to multiple stations. It would save us a lot of time tracking down the order.

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We never put our system on an app.
Apr 27, 2017 9:40AM PDT

We used the old board system with job number, title, where it was and who to contact.

Today, your basic run of the mill programmers could gen something up in no time if you gave them a full spec, server to run it on and a big screen to show it if that's in the design.

That or go ERP!