Management information systems in

Manufacturing industry

Assignment- 1

Presented by:
Shreya Garg
Chetna
Sweta
Srishti Taylor
Anjali malik

Submitted to: Dr. Pallavi

Course: MBA
Section: A
 Management information systems in Manufacturing Industry

ABSTRACT
The Management Information System (MIS) can be implemented in any
manufacturing industry, human resource, logistic management industry, etc. This study
aims to describe implementation of MIS in automobile industry. The different data
collection and data analysis techniques used in MIS implementation are discussed. Most
of the time Barcodes and barcode readers are used as an input device in many
industries. Due to such devices tracking and traceability of shop floor gets improved.
The client server-based information system is implemented in many industries for data
transfer, storage, and analysis. Different advantages of MIS implementation are
discussed. The MIS is back bone of any organization. Very effectively implemented MIS
helps the organization to perform its tasks smoothly and efficiently. Effective
implementation of the MIS will help the organization to achieve good performance/
position in market.

I. INTRODUCTION
In the manufacturing process step by step product quality data collection is most important;
such data validates manufacturing process parameters. After analyzing the data, process
control becomes very effective. It becomes easy to introduce new similar product on
manufacturing line by studying the previously available data. In current manufacturing if any
process deviates from standards, it becomes easy to identify the root cause by analyzing the
previously available data. In this way data collection plays an important role in any
manufacturing industry. In such cases Management Information System (MIS) plays vital
role.The Management Information system (MIS) consists of man and machine. The MIS can be
implemented in every type of manufacturing industry. It resembles a data acquisition system,
which acquires product manufacturing data from different work stations in manufacturing
process. Acquired data is used to plot the trends of ongoing process, to find out efficiency of any
machine or worker, to find the total production in a shift, etc. The data is entered into the
computer by number of input methods such as RFID tags, barcode scanners, keyboards, etc.
The computer program analyzes the entered data and such data is presented in proper format
to end user to take further actions. The complete system requires computer infrastructure, will
and determination of authority persons involved in the process. Information flows from bottom to
top in the MIS. The combination of hardware and software together constitutes MIS. In
Volkswagen India Pvt. Ltd. paper-based travel card information system is used. The proposed
Management Information System overcomes the paper-based travel card handling issues
coming in day-to-day production. Also, this system acts as a standalone information system with
its own benefits. The next section gives the review of the previously published papers in this
area. Section III gives the system designing information. The section IV gives the
methodology of the designed system. The results are discussed in section V. The conclusion
and future scope is discussed in last section.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
According to literature author [1] described RFID based information system implementation in
the garment manufacturing industry. How RFID based system helped the company to enhance
production line visibility, efficiency and effectiveness, thus enhancing the business value
conferred upon the organization by the system. Author [2] gives information about
implementation of RFID based system in aircraft engineering industry. Author described how
traceability and tracking is improved after RFID based
information system implemented and what were the success factors and lessons learned in
implementation of such system. In next paper [3] author implemented client server-based
information system in a bicycle manufacturing plant. This system monitors and controls dynamic
production flows and also improves the traceability and visibility of mass customized
manufacturing process. The author [4]
implemented the barcode-based information system in maintenance work. The author used
smart phone to scan the barcode present on the under-maintenance equipment, and after
completing maintenance activity reports are logged through the same system. In paper [5] the
author has described the development and implementation of Kennard Information and Data-
collection system (KIDS) in Kennard Engineering UK.

III. SYSTEM DESIGN

A. Hardware Design
The system developed is to be used on the shop floor. While designing such system many
precautions need to be considered such as the shop floor’s harsh environment,
different noises present on the shop floor, rough use by operator, etc. The complete system is
divided into 2 sections.
1. Hand held data logging device
The data logging device is an embedded system designed on Raspberry Pi B+ board. There is
verity of single board computers available in the market such as Panda board, Beagle Bone,
Raspberry Pi, etc. Table I gives a comparison of all the boards. Raspberry Pi is a single board
computer with a high performance to cost ratio. It is a smallest size computer available in the
market. The internals of Raspberry Pi B+
Some features of Raspberry Pi board are,
i. Broad com SoC processor running at 700MHz
ii. 512MB RAM
iii. Micro USB 5V power connector
iv .4 USB ports
v. Ethernet port
vi. 40 GPIO pins
vii .Micro SD memory card with operating system
viii. 85mm X 56mm size
The board is enclosed by an acrylic casing, such casing makes board handy to use. This board
works on 5V, 1.5A supply. A micro-USB jack is used as a power connector. A 2A fuse and a P
channel MOSFET is used for current limiting and polarity protection respectively. Dual buck
converters are used to take down 5V to 3.3V and 1.8V without much heat loss. The TVS diode
is used for over voltage protection. The resistive touch screen display is used as an input as
well as output device. The 3.5” TFT display with touch screen is connected on the 40-pin GPIO
of raspberry pi B+ board. The touch screen display works on Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
protocol. The pin configuration for display is shown in table II. The GPIO pin number 1 of
Raspberry Pi acts as a supply voltage for display. The GPIO pin number 6 of Raspberry Pi is a
common ground for both boards. 2. Barcode and Barcode reader Barcode- A barcode is used to
encode the information in a visual pattern readable by a machine. The barcode is an
identification number for any object. The barcode is a series of thick and thin lines. The barcode
is referred a Universal Product Code (UPC). Barcode comes in 1-dimensional and 2-
dimensional variants. The benefits of barcode are increase in speed in operation and accuracy.
Large number string can be entered easily using a simple barcode reader within very less time.
This increases efficiency and productivity of the work station. The mapping between message
and barcode is called symbology. Symbology includes addition of start and stop marker into
bars and spaces and quit zones before and after the barcode. There is verity of symbologist
used such as Code 39, Cod bar, Interleaved 2 of 5 and Code 128. Barcode reader- The
barcode reader system consists of different parts including the illumination system, the sensor,
and the decoder. A barcode scanner consists of beam of red or blue light, barcode is illuminated
by such light. The reader system detects the reflected light and generates the analog signal that
is sent to decoder. The decoder interprets, validates the barcode using check digit and converts
it into text. This converted text is transferred to computer via USB or serial cable.

B. Software Design
The hand-held device works on Raspbian Linux operating system. This operating system is
specifically designed for Raspberry Pi boards. As Raspberry Pi does not have internal memory
storage external memory card is to be used. The
Linux operating system must be loaded on SD card and that card needs to be inserted into the
slot available on Raspberry Pi board.
1. Python Programming
In the name Raspberry Pi; Pi indicates python programming language. The python is high level
language. The syntax of python is nearly same as English language. Python is published under
open-source license and freely available for any operating system. The Python IDLE is a cross
platform, installing this platform on any operating system allows user to run the python code on
that operating system. The python has an object-oriented programming approach.
Python language has high level efficient data. It is possible to create Graphical User Interface
(GUI) using Python language. The inter is a GUI widget set for python. There are
standard widgets available in The inter to create any type of Graphical User Interface. The
widget is a generic term for any of the building blocks that make up an application in graphical
user interface. It is possible to manage geometry of the GUI using geometry management tools.
There are number of widgets available to create GUI such as, Button, Check Button, Entry,
Frame, Label, etc. The GUI of the system is developed using such widgets. Different widgets
used in coding are, 1. Label- The label widget can display lines of same format on GUI. 2.
Button Widget- This widget creates push button on main window. 3. Check Button- This widget
crates graphical square box. When checked, this button is selected and
when unchecked, this button is deselected. The data logging is done by generating new file.
The data entered in GUI is collected and stored as a text files

2. Communication to remote computer through Ethernet the data generated at the work station
is transferred to remote computer via Ethernet. The Ethernet local area network provides high
speed data exchange between computers located within moderate geographical area. The
Ethernet network is a long-distance low speed network. When used in limited area it can act as
a high-speed network. The Ethernet is superior choice for communication, as it is easily
available in company shop floor. The company uses the Industrial Ethernet communication
protocol to communicate between industrial computers and machines present on the shop floor.
Each machine (node) present on the network has a fixed IP address. The data transfer takes
place from one IP address to another IP address stands for Internet Protocol address. It is a
label assigned to each device present in network which uses Internet Protocol for
communication. Host or network interface identification and location addressing are the two
important functions of an IP address. The IP address comes in two variants 32-bit IPv4 and 128-
bit IPv6. The addressing used in the project is IPv4 addressing. The project makes use of static
IP address, as private Ethernet network is formed within the organization. The Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is used to assign IP addresses. The DHCP is standard network
protocol used on Internet Protocol (IP). The network configuration parameters such as IP
address for different device are distributed dynamically by the DHCP. The protocol operates on
client-server model. The DHCP server has three methods of allocating IP addresses Automatic
allocation, Dynamic allocation and Static allocation out of this static allocation is used in project.
The data coming from hand held device is stored into comma separated variable (.csv) file. This
file acts as a master file. By making use of this data, graphs and charts are prepared. The report
is generated using HTML and JavaScript language.

3. Report generation
The acquired data should be presented in proper format to end user. The data is stored into
comma separated variable (.csv) file. The HTML together with JavaScript allows displaying the
data in user readable type format. The HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is
widely used language for writing web pages. The link available on web pages is called
hypertext. The markup language means, text document is mark up with the tags that tell web
browser how to structure it to display. There are different tags available such as <head>, <title>,
<body>, etc. to decide the text formatting. The JavaScript is a dynamic programming language
most used with web browser. It is used in server-side programming with run time environment.

IV. METHODOLOGY
The quality parameters are logged into remote computer via hand held device. Each quality
station present in the body shop has got a list of check points. The quality person
checks all those parameters manually and enters the information into the device. After pressing
submit button data is logged into remote computer. The manager can see

V. RESULTS
The system is implemented at Volkswagen India Pvt. Ltd body shop. The data is acquired for
specific set of vehicles. The collected data is analyzed on the various parameters
such as work station cycle time, man power required in data logging, report generation, live line
status information, etc.
1. Work station cycle time all the data in graphical format by seating at his desk.Each work
station is allocated specific cycle time to complete the specific work. In company 105 seconds is
a cycle time for body shop. It is observed that implementing above system on line, there is no
significant change in cycle time.
2. Man power required in data logging
When car travel card is filled completely and complete car comes out, one dedicated employee
is required to scan the cards and prepare the database. This resource need is completely
eliminated in the mentioned system.
3. Report generation
All the data is easily available in .csv format, it is possible to prepare charts, plots from the
available data.
4. Live line status information
The complete system is online system. The data getting logged into the system is reflected in
the report within no time. This will give idea to the higher authority person that how many cars
are checked, what are the major defects,
what action has to be carried out to reduce the defect, which
machine parameter need to be changed, etc. Also, this system gives the time stamp for each
record. It is possible to calculate per shift efficiency of each operator
.
VI. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
The body shop presently utilizes a paper-based travel card
system for data collection. This system has many drawbacks
such as card misplacement, loss of vital information, tracing of car when car goes out of the
company. This newly developed system gives the solution to all these problems. The data is
logged continuously to remote computer. The car tracing is improved. This system has very less
chances of data loss. Also, this system helps the higher management to keep eye on the
production process. If any quality problem arises frequently, then that process can be refined
and further problems can be eliminated. Thus, such computer-based Management Information
System is one of the best solutions to company’s current problems. Effectively this system
improves the data logging and enhances the overall efficiency of the company.
Enhancement of this system is also possible. The operator can enter the employee number into
the system. This will help the higher management to find out the efficiency of operator. As time
stamp of each process can be added, cycle time of each station can be easily determined. It is
possible to make report page more interactive. As per user need dynamic data reports can be
generated by adding employee number, date, particular shift, etc. fields into report page.