Electronic data mangement for the shop floor helps out the office too.
With the advent of computers on the shop floor, manufacturing cost can be better kept track of in the offices.
Some electronic data management for the shop floor allows for indicators to be sent to management when quality or other factors are above a preset measure.
For a business, this means that problems or possible malfunctions in their production lines can bestoppedd and corrected before costing a lot of extra money.
The alerts can be set to send email to management both on and off the production floor and can be set for many different areas and values to cover a range of possible problems.