Factory & field applications
Operational capture where the environment is loud, gloved, intermittently connected, and unforgiving of ambiguous state. Applications prioritise throughput, traceability to work orders, and supervisor-first exception handling.
Context
- Paper checklists and end-of-day spreadsheet merges hide delays and quality issues until it is expensive to correct.
- Shared devices and shift handovers require explicit identity and batch context without re-keying metadata.
- Industrial Wi-Fi and roaming behaviour differ from office assumptions; clients must tolerate disconnects safely.
Problems addressed
- Generic mobile forms that lose submissions or create duplicate records on reconnect.
- Font and control sizes unsuitable for gloves, glare, or one-handed use on the line.
- Supervisors drowned in charts while bottlenecks and holds are buried in raw event logs.
- MES/ERP integrations that treat shop-floor events as best-effort rather than idempotent writes.
What this work involves
- Offline-first or tolerant sync with server-side validation, conflict rules, and operator-visible recovery states.
- Large-target flows, minimal free text, and barcode or RFID hooks where appropriate.
- Supervisor queues for holds, rework, and delays tied to work orders and batches.
- Thin clients with authoritative services; structured logging for forensic replay when disputes arise.
- Rugged device and browser constraints tested on representative hardware and network profiles.
Relationship to services
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