Integrating Network Technology with Production Supervision: Low Cost Solution for Managing In-Process Inventory

In context to the manufacturing situation in the shop floor, work-in-process (WIP) management or the in-process inventory and control as the inevitable result of the production process have become the key link of production plan. Due to the growing production requirements and the potential economic benefits of manufacturing process flow, enterprises have been pushed to integrate work-in-process management with their manufacturing process and the larger the company the larger the list of in-process inventory and this all are typically hard to manage so for the same respect the author in this paper has lighted on the integration of the sophisticated electronics and networking technologies with the W.I.P with an native and low cost solution for managing the same, specially for the medium scaled company dealing with large number of product or with the customized product with reference to study of present scenario of a multinational company’s plant engineering department.