You are appointed to participate on a time efficiency team. The team includes factory workers, Supervisor and a representative from the accounting department. Currently the factory workers record their time on job-time sheets. They also calculate the total time worked on each job. A worker may work on three or four jobs each day.

The accounting department receives about 200 job-time sheets each day. A clerk verifies the workers’ calculations on the job-time records. Any changes to the total time must be initialed by a supervisor.

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The company has appointed your team to explore ways to automate the time recording process. Your job.o n the team is to explore bar code technology. Write a report on bar code technology. Make a recommendation to the team indicating whether bar codes could be used to replace the job-time sheets.