Extract data from work orders
Unstract reads production work orders, job travelers and change orders, scanned off the shop floor or sent as PDFs, and sends quantities, scrap and sign-offs to your ERP or MES.
op 20 — 4 scrap, tool chatter, new insert — JM
[BARCODE] WO-26-04417 · TRAVELER FORM PT-110 REV 4
{ "work_order": "WO-26-04417", "part_number": "7720-BRK-03", "revision": "C", "qty_ordered": 250, "due_date": "11/14/2026", "qty_completed": 244, "qty_scrapped": 6, "op20_scrap": 4, "qc_inspector": "R. Okafor", "confidence": 0.94}
Trusted by manufacturing and quality teams around the globe
A work order comes back from the floor in worse shape than it left
Planning releases a clean printout. By the time the job ships, the traveler has been through every work center and every operator's hands.
Creased, stained with coolant, then scanned at the cell
Three plants, three names for the good-parts count
A count crossed out and rewritten by the operator at the machine
Work order, ECO, drawing and pick list in one job packet
The week's production schedule, exported as a spreadsheet
A clerk keys every count, scrap figure and set of initials into the system at shift end, so the ERP shows yesterday's floor and a short job surfaces only when the customer asks where the parts are.
Unstract reads each traveler and change order as it comes off the floor, pulls the operations, quantities and sign-offs, checks the counts against the order, and posts them to your ERP or MES.
Parse, extract and close out work orders on one platform
Read the traveler, turn every operation into data, then run the close-out around it. Each product works alone, and the three together close the job.
Parse every work order with each operation and its counts on one line
Capture the full text of a production work order, a job traveler or a change order, whether it was printed, carried through the shop and scanned, or exported as a PDF. The routing table stays intact: each good count, scrap count and operator's initials sit on the line of their own operation, so a scrap figure from the mill is never booked against deburr.
Send the text to your own LLM, or make parsing the first step of a work order close-out.
Learn more about LLMWhispererA work order data extractor that checks the counts add up
Name the fields you post for each job, and every work order comes back in one JSON structure, whether the plant prints QTY GOOD, QTY COMP or PCS OK. The counts are checked as they come out: good plus scrap must equal what the operation received, and the final good count is set against the quantity ordered. A job that ships short or an operation with no initials arrives flagged with the reason.
Call it as an API from your shop-floor terminals, run it as an ETL pipeline from a scan folder, or make it one step in an orchestrated close-out.
Learn more about Document StudioRun work order close-out from the last operation to the posted job
Describe how your plant closes a work order in plain English and Flow's agents build the workflow. Travelers and change orders are picked up from the scan station or a shared inbox, each one is read, the counts are checked against the open order and the material issued, and the job is posted to your ERP or MES with quantities, scrap and labor. You approve the workflow once, and every closed job follows it the same way.
Set the conditions for a planner or engineer to step in: a job that ships short, scrap above your limit, a missing QC sign-off, a revision that differs from the open order. Only those jobs wait, with the reason attached. Unstract reads and checks; your supervisors still decide what is reworked, scrapped or shipped.
Learn more about FlowRead your travelers this week. Close jobs automatically once they check out.
Start for free to parse and extract your own work orders today. Automating work order close-out begins with a consultation.
Work orders, travelers, and the change orders that revise them
Documents
- Production work orders
- Job travelers
- Routing sheets
- Manufacturing change orders (MCO)
- Engineering change orders (ECO)
- Engineering change requests
- Production schedules
- Dispatch lists
- Rework orders
- Material pick lists
- Kitting lists
- Labor tickets
- Operator sign-off sheets
- Scrap and rework tags
- First-piece inspection sheets
- Move tickets
Fields captured
For the people who release jobs and close them
Completed and scrapped counts in the system the day the job closes, so the next schedule is built on what the floor made rather than what it planned.
Setup and run times captured per operation and work center, so routing standards get corrected from real jobs instead of estimates.
Every traveler checked for operator initials and a QC sign-off before the parts move to stock, with the gap named when one is missing.
Each customer's work orders and change orders read in their own layout, with the revision built confirmed against the revision ordered.
Jobs closed the day they finish, with fewer surprises
Your routings stay inside the plant's control
A work order spells out your routings, cycle times and the part numbers your customers buy from you. Together they show how you make each part and what it costs you, which is exactly what a competing shop would quote against.
- Encrypted in transit and at rest.
- Work orders and routings are never used for model training.
- Access by role, plant and customer, with every correction to a count recorded against the work order.
- You set retention: travelers are kept for as long as your quality system or customer contract requires, then deleted.
- Self-hosted deployment for manufacturers that keep routing and customer data on their own network.
What production and planning teams ask first
Unstract reads the text printed on the work order, including the work order number printed under the barcode, and does not decode the barcode itself. Most travelers print the number in plain text beneath the bars, so the job is still matched to the right order. If your work orders carry only a barcode with no printed number, keep your scanner for that one field.
Scan the closed travelers at the cell or send the PDFs to a shared folder. LLMWhisperer reads each one with its routing table intact, and Document Studio returns the order, every operation, the good and scrap counts and the sign-offs as JSON for your ERP or MES. Nobody keys a count.
Yes. LLMWhisperer reads handwriting alongside the printed form, so initials, counts written in at the machine and a number crossed out and rewritten each stay on the line of their own operation.
Yes. Document Studio deploys an endpoint per document type: POST a scanned work order and get the operations and quantities back as JSON. The same extraction runs as an ETL pipeline if you would rather drop scans into a folder or bucket.
Both, in layers. LLMWhisperer is the work order parser, Document Studio is the work order data extractor that returns your fields, and Flow runs the close-out around them: intake, count checks, exceptions and the posted job in your ERP or MES.
Yes. A change order comes back with its number, the parts and revisions affected, the effective date and the approvals. A production schedule comes back as one row per job with its work center, shift and dates. Neither needs a template.
The job stops in a review queue. A planner sees the operation, the good and scrap counts, the quantity it received and the line on the traveler they came from, then corrects the count or confirms the shortfall. The decision is recorded against the work order.
Yes. Each operator's initials, the inspector's name and date and the QC disposition are captured as fields, and the scanned traveler stays linked to the record, so an auditor or a customer can trace every operation back to the page.
No. Document Studio finds each field by what it means, so a plant that prints QTY COMP and another that prints PCS OK return the same record. A new customer's traveler is read like the rest.
Unstract is SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA compliant. Work orders are encrypted in transit and at rest, never used to train models, and kept only as long as you set. Plants that keep routings on their own network can self-host; see the Trust Center.
A week of closed travelers from one cell, the change orders that touched them, and the fields your ERP or MES expects. We set up the close-out around them, and most plants post their first live jobs within days. To try extraction now, start for free with one scanned traveler.
Bring a week of closed travelers to the consultation
Job travelers, change orders and the schedule they ran against. We read them live, check every count against its order and show you each job that came up short.