WIPtracker^™ - the real-time operations tracking and process-flow
management solution for manufacturers and industrial distributors

WIPtracker is an affordable plug-and-play IOT appliance which enables the tracking and management of jobs and materials as they flow through manufacturing plants, as well as through industrial distribution warehouses which do secondary operations such as assembly and kitting.

Please watch our 8 minute WIPtracker Overview Video for a short explanation of WIPtracker's industrial operations tracking and process-flow management capabilities.

WIPtracker is an integration of four elements, all delivered pre-installed in an industrial IOT (Internet of Things) computer:

1. A barcode tracking system to automate the real-time capture of job and materials tracking data thereby eliminating the need to record data using paper forms and Excel spreadsheets. Also performs mistake prevention and provides managers and their staff members with a real-time view of the status of all their jobs and materials.
2. An operations tracking database, which tracks the current status of jobs and materials as well as the history of all tracking events, including materials traceability data as to which materials were used to make which products.
3. A set of periodically scheduled intelligent agent processes that can be controlled using Python scripts to provide real-time business intelligence to operations managers and their staff, as well as eliminating much of their "intelligent grunt work" by:
   • Monitoring the database to spot when there are problems, such as inventory shortages or jobs running late, that mangers need to address, and then sending alert Emails to the mangers or their staff.
   • Automatically exchanging data with external ERP, CRM and supply-chain system thereby eliminating the need for manual data entry or duplicate data entry in multiple systems.
   • Automatically creating reports for senior management, quality control, security, customers and other stake holders and then delivering these by Email.
   • Automatically generating and sending files, such as in EDI and EPCIS formats, needed by trading partners.
4. A Web-Services interface, which provides secure encrypted access to the operations tracking database for external systems, including a wide-range of ERP systems. This interface is also used by add-on WIPtracker IOT boxes for applications such as dynamic barcode label printing and automatically collecting weighing scale and other process control information.

WIPtracker tracks the flow of jobs and materials in real-time through industrial operations in response to orders entered locally or imported from other systems. WIPtracker intelligent agents can then automatically perform the "intelligent grunt work" that can consume so much time of operations managers and their staff.

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