From Raw Milk to Packaging: How Production Logs Help You Trace a Batch's Path
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...