Legacy equipment
One green button to start tracking production
An older machine gave the team two useful signals: the active job and whether it was running. An operator button added the missing piece: what got made.
The machine could say it was running
On a recent Pocket-E project, an older machine already had two pieces of information we could use: the job running on it and a signal that said whether it was running or stopped. That gave us a way to tell when the machine was working. It didn’t tell us when a part was finished.
Give the operator one thing to do
We added a big green button. When the operator finished a part, they pressed it. Pocket-E could record the output against the active job and use the machine signal to see when production stopped. If a stop lasted long enough to matter, the workflow could ask the operator what happened while it was still fresh.
Put those few signals to work
The job, the count, and the run state are enough to start tracking pace and downtime. The same production record can support ERP transactions and label or RFID workflows. If an automatic count makes sense later, a PLC update or an added sensor can supply it. The team can start with the machine it has today.
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