Table of Contents
Advertisement
Attendance Recording
The IBM 2790 system may be configured in two ways for
attendance recording. Where high-rate attendance recording
is required, the IBM 2791 with either the resident badge
reader or remote IBM 1035 may be used to provide a record
of the employee's man number. (The system automatically
inserts the time and location into each transaction.)
In other applications (with lower required entry rates),
the IBM 2795 or 2796 may be used.
Material Control
When raw material, purchased parts, or assemblies are with
drawn from stock, the IBM 2790 system provides an up-to-
date record of material on hand. A 2795 DEU or 2796 DEU
is installed in each stock room. A prepunched ten-column
card or badge containing a file-record identifier for such
information as material, part number, quantity, and stock
room location is inserted in the DEU. Ten columns of
numeric data together with variable fields are transmitted
to the data processing system, updating the parts inventory.
Production Control
The control of production requires management to know
the status of work flow through the various steps of the
manufacturing process. Data entry units installed at appro
priate machine locations and checkpoints can be used to
record dynamically the time spent on each operation, work
pile-ups, quantity of parts flow, etc. This data recorded on
the system is available to management for checking the
progress of an individual order through the shop, and work
completed for each step of the operation. It can also be
used to determine the need for additional capacity at specific
steps of the operation, or the need to shift work load to new
areas. Information on the status of shop loads can be used
in determining standard lead times for production scheduling.
Introduction
7
Advertisement
Table of Contents
