Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
MES delivers information from the factory floor to plant managers,
operators or anyone in real time. MES consists of plantwide systems
to keep track of production schedules, inventory, work in progress
and a wide range of other information. MES allows manufacturers
to effectively address the complex challenges in today's world to
remain competitive and increase profitability.
Can-Technologies has over 20 years combined experience providing complete MES solutions for our customers.
MES:
> Improve Throughput and Efficiency
> Reduce Downtime
> Improve Quality
> Reduce Product Recall/Warranty Cost & Response Times
> Optimize Physical and Human Resources
> Support Continuous Improvement/ 6s (Six-Sigma) /Lean Initiatives
> Bottom Line: Re-focus on the Factory Floor to increase Production and Profits, and to guarantee
customer satisfaction.
> Correlate product, process, and quality data for quick problem solving and root cause identification
> Establish visibility at every organizational level into production performance or variances
> Reduce or eliminate manual data collection and manipulation and associated errors
> Enhance production performance by basing decisions on real-time, accurate process information
against established metrics
> Automatically generate documentation for rigorous quality programs
Traditional Business/Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems:
> Do not provide "real-time" communications with the plant floor
> Designed for production planning (not execution)
> Provide unrealistic production schedules for processes with finite capacity
> Have limited tracking capabilities
> Do not provide required production information
MES Functionality:
> Data Collection
> Performance Monitoring
> Downtime/Uptime
> Operational Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
> Comprehensive Production Reporting
> Part Tracking/Birth History
> Error-Proofing
> Quality Management
> Document Control
> Dispatching Production
> Interface to External Systems (e.g. SAP)
> The most basic - and often most challenging - function is Data Collection
> Captures production data associated with equipment and production processes
> In all MES solutions it is essential to have available data being collected at or near the machine
level. This ensures consistency across a plant or plants, regardless of machine or platform
> Improved data integrity
> Accurate representation of process variables
Typical production metrics include:
> Downtime/Uptime
> Downtime Reason
> Runtime
> OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)
> Changeovers (track precisely to each equipment)
> Meantime between failures
> Meantime to repair
> Effective machine cycle time
> Effective parts per hour
Target System:
> Open, scalable architecture
> Intuitive, easy-to-use interface
> Easy access to the system, locally and remotely
> Designed to support 24x7 operation
> Be capable of rolling out quickly and easily to other plants
> Be easily upgradeable without redoing integration and implementation
> Be capable of providing the required functionality with a minimum amount of custom development
by utilizing off-the-shelf software
> Be capable of being maintained with in-house, existing skill sets, and not require any software or
database skills
Proficy Efficiency:
A module to identify and monitor all areas of manufacturing for inefficiencies - perform root cause analyses, historical data summaries, schedule reports and control overall equipment efficiency (OEE).
Proficy Quality:
A module to define and regulate product specifications and recipes, trend and analyze data, maintain compliance, calculate KPIs and monitor and alert variations in product line.
Proficy Shop Floor SPC:
A suite of modules to gather, organize and analyze manufacturing data to monitor production quality and generate reports that can be easily distributed to each level of your business.
Proficy Production:
A system module to help oversee production operations including functions to control product flow between equipment, develop product genealogy reports and make schedule changes to reduce excess inventory.
Proficy Batch Analysis:
Off-the-shelf reporting and analysis applications that work with multi-vendor systems to improve overall consistency and quality in batch execution processes.
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