Assemblers at the Xerox Worldwide Production Systems Manufacturing Plant (Webster, NY), recipient of the 2005 Assembly Plant of the Year award sponsored by ASSEMBLY magazine, use high-tech tools to improve productivity and boost throughput. The computerized ShopFloor system helps streamline the production of digital production presses.
Operators use the system every day for tasks such as following the very detailed build steps; correct part usage; correct tool usage; measurement entry and validation; and nonconformance data entry. The ShopFloor system will not allow a machine to be sent to the next build step if it has not been completely finished and validated in the previous step.