How Mobile Apps Can Change the Century's Oldest Industry-

Posted by Martin Boney
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Mobile devices have become common among every individual, likewise there are apps for almost everything, from gaming to cooking and dancing. However, it's time to admit the fact that enterprises lack to adopt mobile applications at workplaces. They still rely on traditional paper log sheets or an operator reports shift wise tonnages.

Similarly, metal industry should also be an adopter of Manufacturing Execution system (MES) and machine integration is primitive. Here, Thomson Data has tried to provide some insights on how mobile apps at workplace combined with Internet of things (IOT) will change the way the century's oldest industry-metal industry will function.

Initially, when mobile apps were introduced in the work place, it was just limited to approvals, alerts, reports and associated workflows using mobile devices. Today, we witness sales reps using mobile apps for customer contacts, account information, capture lead, view product catalogue, quote price, see movement of metals on commodity markets, report order status, invoice payments and others.

IOT refers to connect objects such as, machines, equipment, mill, products-coils, slabs and plates through internet by providing a unique identification number. The systems have sensors that can sense and respond to the environment around and share data among themselves.

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