Casco’s ShopVue is a shop floor control platform that can be deployed on-premise and is ideal for discrete manufacturing organizations. It presents features such as time and attendance tracking, component control, machine monitoring, production planning, and labor tracking. You can divide the software’s functionalities by role in manufacturing companies such as human resources, supervisors, and plant managers. The system’s manufacturing execution module allows you to competently handle routine tasks like inspection management, work instructions, and punch-ins.
ShopVue’s job tracking function enables you to monitor the status of lots, jobs, work orders, and parts. Its labor tracking capability helps you to match staff time against activities like breaks, meetings, and work orders.
ShopVue’s DIM or Direct Machine Interface function empowers you to track the utilization and efficiency of factory machines. This electronic interface to the device’s controls automatically collects information about the machine including the number of parts it produces, and its speed, temperature, and status (down or running).
Further, this automatic machine tracking feature helps to resolve issues related to utilizing manually input data to monitor factory machines, such as the likelihood of mixing up numbers of parts created between shifts or the omission of precise details like scrap and yield data.
This robust ShopVue module enables you to monitor material usage on your shop floor at the use point. It ensures assemblers or operators utilize the correct parts and quantities while performing their tasks. Further, it logs in real time the materials utilized by a machine in each operation. The module also assists you to track scraps which are materials rejected or discarded from a process but can be recycled or reprocessed.
Labor tracking or shop tracking is a core ShopVue module. It enables you to capture data about the indirect and direct activities of your workers and operators. Direct activities or labor are the tasks related to the production of products; indirect activities are jobs not linked to production such as meetings and maintenance. Thus, this module logs the time spent by your staff members on performing their assigned work orders as well as the hours dedicated to indirect activities.
According to a review website, ShopVue pricing begins at $40,000 as a one-time payment. Contact the vendor directly for more details.