Tracking Automation is to let frontline workers telling the system what they have done using smart phone, for example scan barcode, "auto update system"...

1. Store keeper scan barcode: "WO123456 material received on 10/11/2025 11:25:30"
2. Machine Operator scan barcode: "WO123456 start work on 10/11/2025 13:05:10"
3. QC Inspector scan barcode: "WO123456 QC passed on 14/11/2025 09:20:03"
4. Outgoing QC scan barcode: "WO123456 item moved to Finished Goods on 14/11/2025 10:25:00"
5. Driver scan barcode: "WO123456 item delivered on 14/11/2025 14:22:13"

Super easy, fast and accurate. 

跟踪自动化就是让一线员工用智能手机直接“告诉系统”自己完成了什么操作，比如扫码，系统就自动更新……

例如：
- 仓库管理员扫码：WO123456 物料到货，2025年11月10日 11:25:30  
- 机台操作工扫码：WO123456 开始加工，2025年11月10日 13:05:10  
- 品管检验员扫码：WO123456 检验合格，2025年11月14日 09:20:03  
- 出货质检扫码：WO123456 产品已移入成品仓，2025年11月14日 10:25:00  
- 司机扫码：WO123456 已送达客户，2025年11月14日 14:22:13  

简单、实用、全程可见。

...the use of barcodes and scanning technology to automatically identify and perform something with minimal human intervention.

For example, give your Work Order a barcode (digital id), a scanner can then read this digital id instantly and trigger an automated action (eg: show button), click the button will auto update Work Order status to done. 

Easy, fast and accurate.

使用条形码和扫描技术来实现自动识别并执行操作，几乎无需人工干预。

例如：给你的工单（Work Order）分配一个条形码（数字 ID），手机一扫码就能立刻读取这个数字 ID，并触发自动化动作（例如：显示一个“完成”按钮），点击按钮后工单状态会自动更新为“已完成”。

简单、快速、准确。

Reduces human data entry errors from ~1 in 300 keystrokes to nearly zero. A scan is either correct or it fails; there are no typos.

将人工数据录入错误从大约每 300 个按键有 1 个错误，降低到几乎为零。 扫描要么完全正确，要么直接失败；不存在打字错误。

Scanning a barcode is many times faster than manually writing down or typing information. This speeds up processes like checkout, inventory counts, and order picking.

扫码比手动写下或输入信息快很多倍。这大大加快了结账、库存盘点和订单拣选等流程的速度。

Information is updated in the central system the moment the scan occurs. This provides an accurate, up-to-the-minute view of stock levels, asset locations, or order status.

信息在扫码发生的那一刻就会立即更新到中央系统。这提供了库存水平、资产位置或订单状态的准确、实时可见。

Saves significant labor hours, reduces errors that lead to financial loss (shipping wrong items, inventory shrinkage), and improves overall operational throughput.

节省大量人工时间，减少导致财务损失的错误（如发错货物、库存损耗），并提升整体运营效率和吞吐量。

Allows you to track an item's journey through its entire lifecycle—from manufacture to warehouse to sale, or from assignment to maintenance for an asset.

可跟踪物品在其整个生命周期中的旅程——从制造到仓储到销售，或从资产的分配到维护。

This is where barcode automation is most visible and critical.

Warehouse Personnel: They use handheld scanners for almost every task:

• Receiving: Scan incoming pallets and boxes to confirm what was delivered.
• Put-away: Scan an item and a storage bin location to tell the system where everything is.
• Picking: Scan a bin location and the item to fulfill an order, ensuring 100% accuracy.
• Packing: Scan the order to confirm it's correct and print a shipping label with its own barcode.
• Shipping: Scan the shipping label to automatically update the order status to "shipped."

Forklift Drivers: Use smart phone scanner to move pallets and update their locations in real-time.

Inventory Clerks: Use scanners for cycle counting and annual physical inventories, making the process fast and accurate.

• Line Operators: Scan raw materials and components as they are used to track consumption and maintain accurate bill of materials.
• Assembly Workers: Scan serial numbers at different stages of assembly to track work-in-progress (WIP) and labor time.
• Quality Control Inspectors: Scan a finished product's barcode to log test results, defects, or to mark it as approved for shipment.
• Maintenance Technicians: Scan barcodes on equipment to pull up maintenance history, manuals, and log new work orders.
  

• Cashiers: Use fixed barcode scanners at the Point-of-Sale (POS) to ring up items quickly and accurately.
• Customer: Scan QR code to login as guest and scan item barcode to check price.
• Store Personnel & Stockers:
• • Scan items during receiving from the warehouse.
  • Scan items on the shelf for price checks or inventory counts.
  • Scan items being purchased by a customer using a mobile device for "line-busting."
• Store Managers: Use inventory data from barcode scans to monitor stock levels, identify fast/slow-moving items, and prevent shrinkage (theft).
  

• IT Department: Uses barcodes to track all company assets—laptops, monitors, servers, etc.—for inventory, maintenance, and auditing purposes.
• HR Department: Might use barcodes on employee badges for time and attendance tracking or to control access to secure areas.
• Accounting/Finance: Relies on the accurate data from barcode scans for cost accounting, inventory valuation, and auditing. They don't always scan themselves, but they consume the data generated by scanners.
• Administrative Assistants: In offices that handle physical files, they use barcodes to track the location and check-in/check-out status of documents.
  

While they are not typically scanning items, they are heavy users of the data generated by barcode automation. They rely on the real-time, accurate information for:

• Making Strategic Decisions: Based on accurate inventory turnover rates, production efficiency, and sales data.
• Financial Planning: Accurate cost of goods sold (COGS) and inventory valuation are critical for financial reports.
• Performance Monitoring: Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) like order accuracy, picking/packing speed, and production throughput.
  

• Customer Service Representatives: Use barcode data to:
• • Give customers accurate, real-time information on order status and inventory availability.
  • Process returns and warranties quickly by scanning the product's serial number.
    

• Quality Auditors: Use barcodes to trace a product's entire lifecycle—from which batch of raw materials it came from, through which production line, to which customer it was shipped. This is crucial for recalls and regulatory compliance (e.g., in food, pharmaceuticals, aerospace).
  

This is the most common and powerful driver. 

• The Sign: You have a high rate of errors from typos, miskeyed numbers, or misread handwriting. This leads to shipping wrong items, incorrect inventory counts, billing mistakes, and frustrated customers.
• The Solution: Barcodes reduce the error rate to nearly zero. If the barcode is printed correctly, it will be scanned correctly every time.

这是最常见且最强有力的驱动因素。

• 征兆：你经常出现因打字错误、输入数字失误或误读手写内容导致的错误。这会造成发错货物、库存计数不准、账单错误，以及客户不满。
• 解决方案：条形码可以将错误率降到几乎为零。只要条形码印刷正确，每次扫描就一定正确。
  

• The Sign: Employees are spending too much time manually counting inventory, writing down serial numbers, or looking up information in a system. This creates bottlenecks in shipping, production, or receiving.
• The Solution: A single scan takes a fraction of a second and can replace multiple steps of manual entry and verification, dramatically speeding up workflows.
• 征兆：员工花费大量时间手动清点库存、抄写序列号，或在系统中查找信息。这会在发货、生产或收货环节造成瓶颈。
• 解决方案：一次扫描只需几分之一秒，就能取代多个手动输入和验证步骤，极大加速工作流程。
  

• The Sign: You can't accurately answer simple questions like "How many of Item X do we have right now?" or "Where is Order Y in the fulfillment process?" Your system data is always out of date because it's updated in batches, not in real-time.
• The Solution: Every scan is an instant update to your central database. The moment an item is received, picked, or shipped, everyone in the company sees that change immediately.
• 征兆： 你无法准确回答一些简单的提问，比如“我们现在还有多少件 X 商品？”或者“Y 订单目前在履约流程的哪一步？”  你的系统数据总是过时的，因为它是批量更新，而不是实时更新。
• 解决方案：  每一次扫描都是一次对中央数据库的即时更新。  从商品入库、拣货到出库的那一刻起，公司里的每个人都能立刻看到最新的变化。
  

• The Sign: Your business is growing, and your current manual methods are starting to crack under the pressure. What worked for 10 orders a day is failing with 100 orders a day.
• The Solution: Barcode automation is inherently scalable. The process for handling 1,000 items is the same as for handling 100—it just takes a little longer. It prevents you from having to hire a disproportionately large number of new staff just to handle the increased data entry.
• 征兆：你的业务正在增长，当前的手工操作方式已经开始不堪重负。每天处理10个订单还能应付，每天100个订单就彻底乱套了。
• 解决方案：条形码自动化天生就具备可扩展性。处理1000件商品的流程和处理100件完全一样——只是多花一点时间而已。它能让你避免为了应对暴增的数据录入工作而不得不招聘大量新员工。
  

• The Sign: You operate in an industry where you must be able to track a product's journey (e.g., food, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, high-value electronics). You need to know which batch of components went into a specific finished product for recalls or quality control.
• The Solution: Barcodes (especially 2D/serialized ones) allow you to track an item from raw material, through production, to the end customer, creating a complete audit trail.
• 征兆： 您所在的行业必须能够追踪产品的完整旅程（例如：食品、药品、航空航天、高价值电子产品）。您需要准确知道某个具体成品使用了哪一批零部件，以便进行产品召回或质量控制。
• 解决方案：条码（特别是二维/序列化条码）可以让您从原材料到生产过程，再到最终客户，全程追踪每一件物品，形成完整的可审计追溯链。
  

• The Sign: Tools, IT equipment, or other high-value assets frequently go missing, and you have no record of who had them last or when they were checked out.
• The Solution: A simple check-in/check-out system using barcodes provides immediate accountability and drastically reduces loss.
• 征兆：工具、IT 设备或其他高价值资产经常丢失，而且你根本没有记录是谁最后拿走的，或者什么时候借出的。
• 解决方案：采用简单的条形码借还系统，就能立刻实现责任到人，大幅减少资产丢失。