Real-Time Work-in-Progress (WIP) Tracking: Preventing Production Floor Bottlenecks

The Blind Spot on the Factory Floor

Many plant managers know what raw materials entered the warehouse and what finished goods were shipped, but have zero visibility into what is happening on the shop floor right now. Millions of dollars in value remain locked in Work-in-Progress (WIP) inventories scattered across cutting, welding, polishing, and quality-check stations.

Stage-Wise Routing and Traveler Cards

Implementing digital Job Cards (or Route Sheets) ensures that as batches move through physical work centers, operators scan barcodes at each workstation, recording start times, machine IDs, completed quantities, and rejected parts.

Relaso Manufacturing ERP provides real-time shop floor dashboards, showing machine utilization, queue lengths, and exact financial valuation of in-progress inventory at every stage of fabrication.