Tablet application for factory production management

Context

• Shop-floor data arrived late to planning because capture was paper-based or trapped in personal files.
• Supervisors needed an exception-first view: delays, rework, and quality holds—not another vanity dashboard.

Problem

• Shared devices, gloves, noise, and unreliable Wi-Fi made generic mobile forms fragile in daily use.
• Batch and work-order context had to stay consistent across shifts without asking operators to re-enter metadata.

Approach

• Designed large-target flows for gloved use, explicit handovers, and offline-tolerant capture where the network drops.
• Connected events to work orders and batches with server-side validation to prevent orphaned records.
• Built supervisor queues around bottlenecks and holds rather than aggregate charts only.

System / architecture

• Thin client on tablets; authoritative state on services with idempotent writes and conflict handling for reconnect.
• Integration hooks to MES/ERP or internal inventory via versioned APIs.

Outcome

• Earlier detection of line issues and clearer accountability between shifts.
• Reduced manual re-entry and the error rate that follows end-of-day batch updates.

Representative industrial workflow engagement; client identity and figures are not disclosed.