Digital Pens For Manufacturing Plants

One of the most valuable tools a manufacturing organization can have is the ability to react to the production process in a timely manner. This is really only possible if the data being used to make decisions is available in real time. Despite the use of sophisticated management tools, many manufacturers are still collecting data on paper.

The cost and delay of handling and transcribing data to get it off of paper and into those back-end systems slows the process down. The transcription and data entry processes are time consuming, expensive and error prone – resulting in out-of-date information and out-of-sync decision making.

FactoryScribe is a lightweight web application built around digital pen and paper technology.

FactoryScribe helps stream-line all business processes that revolve around paper trails. The technology is unique because of the speed and accuracy with which you can capture free text handwriting from paper documents and convert it into electronic data.

As you write on regular paper, the camera inside the pen captures your hand strokes. All data from the pen is easily transferred via Bluetooth or USB to FactoryScribe’s engine, where the handwriting is converted into computer text and a pdf version of the form is saved. Once the information has been interpreted/transferred, further validation and post processing can be applied by FactoryScribe if necessary. Once all data is validated, it can be automatically sent to any third party system.

Since FactoryScribe is easy to use, very reliable, and requires little to no training, it is a natural choice when it comes to continuous improvement and data collection.

FactoryScribe can be applied to several  manufacturing processes, including Quality Control, Material Management, Production Process Management and many more.