4BDE for digital shop-floor data collection

4BDE is the S4P solution for shop-floor data collection, production data acquisition, BDE terminals and paperless manufacturing. The solution supports industrial companies in capturing production data, times, quantities, scrap, faults and quality data digitally and in real time. With 4BDE you connect shop-floor feedback, ERP, PPS, MES and worker guidance into a transparent data flow. This reduces manual entry errors, improves post-calculation and creates reliable real-time information for manufacturing, work preparation and management:

• Productivity ↑
• Real-time information ↑
• Reporting capability ↑
• Post-calculation ↑
• Transparency ↑
• Customisable for every requirement
• Best practices for small, medium and large companies
• Compliant with DIN/ISO 9001 & works council requirements
• Hardware from barcode, RFID to BDE/I4.0 terminal
• Consulting expertise by S4P

4BDE simplifies shop-floor data collection and creates transparency

Capturing your own operational data is essential to safeguard competitiveness on the one hand and to keep the company on course on the other. In the past, shop-floor data collection was performed inaccurately and with significant manual effort, later then with MS Excel. However, both variants have considerable disadvantages — for example, employees needed a lot of time for shop-floor data collection. Updates could not be automated either. With software-supported shop-floor data collection you can counteract this. It helps you to keep times, quantities and quality data in view at all times. As a BDE system, 4BDE supports companies in systematically capturing production data and making it usable for post-calculation and quality assurance.

4BDE as a worker guidance system for intelligent data collection

With 4BDE you choose a modern worker guidance system that convinces through its user-friendly interface and helps you to collect data in an intelligent way. The real-time visualisation of your production data plays an important role here. It significantly improves business and value-creation processes and helps you to succeed in competition. With 4BDE you receive a guidance system that can be individualised to your specific needs and can also be combined with other systems without difficulty, so that data from existing PPS, ERP and warehouse management systems is easily imported. This shows why 4BDE is the optimal worker guidance system on the shop floor. Employees can feed back orders, times, quantities, scrap and quality data directly at the BDE terminal.

Digital shop-floor data collection ensures higher accuracy

A problem of manual shop-floor data collection was the area of accuracy. Data collection was rather inaccurate. This led to prolonged delays, faulty data collection and wrong conclusions. Shop-floor data collection with 4BDE prevents this. Target and actual times are captured precisely and assigned to local production processes. Precisely these so-called data graveyards represent a considerable challenge for companies again and again and cause unnecessarily high costs. Digital shop-floor data collection with 4BDE replaces paper-based processes with up-to-date, traceable and centrally available production data. This creates paperless manufacturing with fewer manual transmission errors.

Functionality of 4BDE for shop-floor data collection

With 4BDE you can capture operational data in various ways:

Setup, unit and total times
Resource and energy consumption
Good quantity, scrap and scrap reasons

With the BDE terminal, employees have the possibility to record their manufacturing times easily and quickly. Feedback can be provided manually, by mouse/keyboard, by touch, by barcode, RFID or fingerprint.

The individually configurable 4BDE terminal offers a variety of feedback options:

Start / interrupt / end feedback
Partial feedback / completion notice as well as bulk / quick feedback
Order backlog feedback
Good part / scrap, fault reasons, pull-forward reasons
Batches and quality data
Capture of overhead activities
Optional splitting / new creation of operations
Multi-machine and multi-operator operation
Optional automations (such as automatic interruption of all operations on an employee's clock-out event, target = actual end on clock-out, follow-on operation reports the previous ones as completed with target = actual, etc.) and freely designable user interfaces for arbitrary production and business processes
Document processing & display of e.g. CAD/CAM data
Low-paper manufacturing through graphical-interactive BDE terminals
Individually configurable message types, logics, workflows (e.g. an end message automatically starts the next follow-on operation and reports the previous ones as completed with target = actual, etc.) and freely designable user interfaces for arbitrary production and business processes

Fields of application of 4BDE

software4production GmbH offers with 4BDE a comprehensive solution for shop-floor data collection that is flexible and adaptable, specifically developed for the needs of industrial companies with different structures:

For smaller companies looking for a simple solution to improve their production process and support efficient production planning, but seeking an efficient transition from traditional methods to advanced solutions.
Medium-sized companies that use an existing PPS / warehouse management system and want to improve their production-related data flows.
Large enterprises that require a comprehensive solution for their complex production processes and have a company-wide need for data consolidation.

Selected references

In our BDE references you can find detailed practical examples and success stories that match your industry. The reference search shows selected customer examples with deployed S4P solutions, industry context and practical benefit for precise shop-floor data collection, real-time feedback and transparent production processes.

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Extend 4BDE if required with 4MDE for machine data collection (MDE): your BDE software then becomes an end-to-end BDE system for shop-floor data collection, MDE and ERP integration including ERP / PPS / MES integration.

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