Digital Production Notes

 A contractor's haul truck returns from another trip, but the customer's dispatch system shows no record of it. Another truck's sensor has failed. The equipment keeps working, but the dispatcher has to find out over the radio how much got done and whether there were any delays. Asking a driver or operator once is easy enough. But when you need that information regularly, from many crews, the conversations start eating up more and more time. While the dispatcher is collecting answers, word of a stoppage or a shortfall can arrive too late to do anything about it during that same shift. How a voice dispatcher could help here Log Sheet already has a voice robot: it calls employees on a schedule, asks questions, and saves the answers to a digital journal. At a pit, the robot could poll equipment crews over the radio — digital or analog. A call to a mobile phone is another option. Here's roughly how it might work. At the set time, the robot reaches the haul truck dri...

 On a production floor, you can log every single operation and still lose track of one specific batch's path. Receiving raw materials, processing, and shipping are all recorded in different logs. The records exist, but to answer the question "what was this product actually made from?" you need to know how those records connect to each other. This question becomes especially important during quality checks. If a complaint concerns a finished product, you need to find out which raw material went into it and what else was made from that same material. If a problem is found in the raw material itself, you have to search through all the products it ended up in. The connection between stages can be preserved right in the production logs: alongside each new batch, you record the number of the batch it was made from. Digital production logs from Log Sheet let you keep these records and configure the fields for your own process. Let's look at how this works using cheese p...