Re: Thin Clients

[Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Why would the workers ENTER anything? Why would any solution require the
workers to ENTER a cost code? This is green screen thinking at its finest!

If you used RFID, for example, you could have an RFID reader in several
places. None of these would have to require anything but their own battery
power, and they could all be portable devices. Each of these could be linked
to a cost code - voila! Or, you could have the worker wave their hand in a
left-right direction for cost code 7, and up-down for cost code 8. Cost code
9 would require doing the hokey-pokey, and if you start with the right leg,
it is cost code 4.

Paul, there are so many possibilities to solving this business problem. If
you continue to think with your green brain - there will never be a solution
other than a foreman keying in data into a terminal, 5250 emulator, newlook,
or PSC/400.



I wonder if a green brain means it is moldy (or mouldy)?



On 9/13/07 1:39 PM, "Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not gonna happen. Most of the time, the workers don't know the cost codes.
> Or care.
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> You had an RFID chip embedded in your finger?
>
> I really think there is a workable solution in this situation. If you are
> recording time against different cost codes, then you can gather the data
> from the worker themselves - using technology, not a pencil. Then the
> foreman gets the list and sorts it out into the correct cost codes. There is
> certainly a way to record data with technology against at least one cost
> code - and most likely, different cost codes for different tasks. Remove the
> ENTRY part of the equation, at least.
>
> Seriously, this is how we - as an industry - stay green and old and AS/400 -
> we put up walls for problems that have some amazing creative solutions..