Bar Coding

Today we're working on creating a "Traveller" or "Follower" for a part as it goes through its manufacturing/production process. This "Traveller" is a sheet of paper which will accompany the part to each of the steps/processes it ends up going through. The shop floor can be quite an environmentally unfriendly place for PCs. For instance there is usually a lot of dust which, over time, can affect the cooling fan's ability to cool the PC, thus ultimately leading to its failure. In even more severe environments, even Thin Client systems may not be appropriate. At Princeton Tools, to avoid these problems, they're going to use bar code scanners for their input.
They do custom work on aircraft engine blades and each part that comes into their shop will have aindividual 'shipping list' from the supplier that already has a bar code on it. They'll scan this piece into their ERP production system and then print out the "Traveller", which will have a bar code for each of the processes that this particular part needs to go through. We're going to put a bar code on the "Traveller" for each one of these steps.
While I've worked with bar codes before, I've never actually created the bar code, so this'll be a fun new learning experience for me.