Digital Solutions for the Evolution of Analog Manufacturing Resource Planning Systems

Project Goal: Create and integrate an automated management system to support a greater production volume.

Ruda-Cardinal Inc. is increasing their mass production of custom optics projects. To handle this growing demand, they wanted to replace their manual system with a new automated process.

The Manufacturing Resource Planning system is primarily cloud-based, logging components of a product with process controls that prevent human error. Users can track serializations, locations and overall status of a product throughout its lifecycle. Scanning and manual functions update the information. An encoded template for each manufactured product creates documents that are curated to record product status, location and other necessary information.

Scanning technology tags inventory and its transportation hardware with unique barcodes. Items are cataloged by barcode or manual entry. A custom SharePoint site stores all relevant inventory and contractual data for each product and allows intercommunication through shared updates regarding product status.