Serial/Lot Tracking Could Save Your Manufacturing Business
CNN reported today that Ford is recalling thousands of trucks due to a faulty module that could potentially start a fire.
Ford discovered the fault on the assembly line and decided to investigate. It was traced to a single part called a body control module; a part manufactured by Lear Corp. As Lear investigated, they were able to find out that this specific part failed because "a new hire failed to clean a soldering machine over a 6 day period in October".
Wow! Now that's an impressive level of detail. This recall could have been much wider... maybe millions of vehicles. But instead, its limited to 6 days! How did they know? It's because they use software similar to MISys Manufacturing that provides visibility and detail into their manufacturing processes.
Because Lear was able to isolate and track down that specific part to a specific source location - which led to a specific place and time in the manufacturing process - they were able to quickly tie it back to the vehicles that received these parts and limit the damage and cost.
Mistakes happen. And when they do, make sure you have the right tools in place to fix it!
Visit http://www.misysinc.com and take the 6-Step tour.
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