MES LITE:
The entry-level solution for digital production

The solution at a glance

• Availability package

  Optimize machine performance with our Availability package. Analyze the reasons for downtime, setup time, operating status and utilization rate – all in real time! Our visualization tools enable a dynamic dashboard template to track the evolution of overall results. Increase your productivity today with data-driven insights.

  Identify optimization potential

  Identify opportunities to maximize efficiency by assessing your machines’ utilization levels. Records of downtime reasons and setup times give you an objective basis for making decisions to optimize your production.

  Real-time status history

  With real-time updates on machine status, you stay informed about production progress and ensure a smooth workflow.

  Machinery visualization

  The machine fleet and shop layout can be visually displayed to provide a more comprehensive understanding of ongoing production.

  What’s included in the package availability?

  • Machine connectivity through I/O Controller (Brownfield) and EDGE CONNECT (Greenfield)
  • Capture downtime reasons
  • Capture setup times
  • Real-time status history

  Evaluations:

  • Efficiency
  • Operating status observation
  • Visualization of machinery, hall layout
  • Dashboard template “downtime development”
• Package “OEE”

  With the package OEE, you measure and improve your production performance. Using the metric, you can increase productivity, reduce costs and improve your delivery ability.

  Show performance visually

  Visualize performance in real-time. You gain insight into your production and how it can be improved. You can identify areas to focus on to maximize efficiency.

  Insights into production

  With OEE, you gain detailed insights into the production process that can be used to make informed decisions about how best to optimize operations. Based on this information, you can identify areas where time or resources are being lost, and corrective action needs to be taken. In this way, it enables OEE to increase productivity while reducing costs and improving competitiveness.

  Improved delivery capability

  Through OEE, manufacturers can help you realize your potential even more. This gives you a competitive advantage by increasing productive capacity at a reduced financial cost. Transparency about your production processes enables you to set reliable delivery dates.

  What is included in the OEE package?

  Expanding the Availability package to include:

  • Order reference (ERP connection via XML interface)
  • Quantity recording (piece counter, manual or automatic)

  Further evaluations:

  • Quantity status diagram
  • OEE reports
  • Quality analysis
  • Visualization of machinery, hall layout with advanced function
  • Quality dashboard template
  • Quantity status diagram

   

One MES System for everyone

FORCAM makes it even easier for you to achieve your goals. Learn which role benefits from which advantages.

• Executive Board / Management
  • Fact-based control and steering tool for strategic business decisions
  • Automated management reports with key performance indicators
  • Overall overview across plants & locations
• Plant / Production Manager
  • Monitoring of production progress and key performance indicators (quality, performance, availability)
  • Derivation of optimization measures
  • Early notification of production failures or quality problems
• Worker
  • Intuitive shop-floor-terminal for real-time input and feedback of operating statuses and order information
  • Provision of all workplace information required by the worker in a user-friendly touch terminal
• Continuous Improvement / Lean Management
  • Identify areas for improvement through extensive analysis
  • Implement process improvements into work routines over the long term
  • Create your evaluations through the intuitive report editor

FAQ

• What added value does MES offer on the store floor?

  An MES solution for the manufacturing industry provides a solution that converts all machine signals from the factory into a real-time data model. With it, factory teams can then precisely analyze machine performance states in preconfigured reports on a central dashboard and on all desired computer end devices. This makes the solution an important tool for modern store floor management.

  The packages included are predefined and standardized. Machine data and production data acquisition (MDE/BDE) as well as important key figures such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) are common.

• How long does the implementation take?

  MES LITE can be implemented in just a few days. The required hardware is manageable, usually comprising an I/O controller for machine connectivity and an edge gateway as the central interface between the shop floor and the top floor.

  Factory teams can digitally connect a wide variety of machines quickly and benefit from the advantages of the solution in a short time: real-time transparency about the performance of the machines as well as higher efficiency through precise analyses and standardized reports – the basis for the data-driven continuous improvement process (CIP).