Production QR Code
Traceability is only as good as the weakest transaction in the chain, and the weakest transaction is always the one somebody had to type. A single mis-keyed lot number is the difference between a four-minute recall query and a four-day one.
Production QR Code replaces the keyboard with a scan. Labels are printed, materials are scanned into the job, output is scanned back out, and the lot chain builds itself as the work happens.
The lot chain builds itself.
Scan it. Post it. Trace it.
- Category
- Traceability
The gap it closes
What you live with until you fix it.
- Lot numbers keyed by hand, and occasionally keyed wrong
- Traceability that breaks at the one station nobody scanned
- Recall scope reconstructed from paper under time pressure
- Consumption booked against the BOM instead of the lot actually used
- A plant already running barcodes that the ERP cannot read
How it works
4 steps. No clipboard in any of them.
- 01
Print the label
QR or barcode labels generated for lots, pallets and production orders, in whichever standard your plant already runs.
- 02
Scan material into the job
Consumption posts against the lot that was actually used, not the one the BOM assumed would be used.
- 03
Scan output back out
Finished output is scanned and posted, linking the new lot to every input lot that went into it.
- 04
Trace in one query
Forward or backward, supplier lot to customer despatch, because every link in the chain was scanned rather than remembered.
What’s in it
Features.
- QR label printing
- Scan-to-post consumption
- Scan-to-post output
- Lot-level traceability
Technical specification
Specs.
- Symbologies
- QR and common 1D/2D barcode standards
- Scanning
- Handheld scanners and shop-floor tablets
- Posting
- Scan-to-post consumption and output
- Traceability
- Forward and backward, lot level
Who runs it
The floors this was built on.
Proof
What it looks like in practice
- Traceability, built as the work happens
- Lot-level
- Instead of a keyboard, at every station
- Scan
- To scope a recall, not days
- Minutes
“The scan is faster than typing, so the floor actually does it. That is the whole trick: traceability nobody has to be nagged into.”
Common questions
Production QR Code, answered.
We already use barcodes. Do we have to change them?
No. It is built to be flexible across whichever bar-coding standard your plant already runs. Replacing a working labelling scheme is a cost with no benefit.
Does it work with handheld scanners?
Yes, and with shop-floor tablets. Whatever is already in the operator's hand is usually the right device.
How does this help with a recall?
Because every consumption and output was scanned, the lot chain is complete. Scoping a recall becomes a query, forward from a supplier lot, or backward from a customer despatch.
Start here
See Production QR Code on your own data. Not a canned demo.
We will run it against a process you actually have, and tell you plainly whether it earns its licence in your plant. If it does not, that is a useful answer too.