Kotrak MES: Dedicated program for manufacturing
Customer Headquarters: Poland
Application type: mobile, touchscreen, desktop, dashboards
Comprehensive production management system
On behalf of our client, we have created a comprehensive manufacturing execution software. The dedicated application allows supervision and planning of work and resources. The state-of-the-art technology of the solution also enables the automation of processes and real-time insight into production operations.
Challenges:
- Printing hard copy orders for employees, with no details on how to complete the order.
- The need for managers to distribute orders on an ongoing basis, at their discretion.
- Lack of immediate feedback to employees on whether they completed the order well.
- A problem with aggregate data analysis for the entire company, due to the lack of transparency in the system and the difficulty of accessing individual information.
- Very general planning, caused by the huge number of orders and reliance solely on human intuition.
Goals to be achieved:
- The meticulous collection of detailed data and recording of all events from the shop floor.
- Recording reasons for rejections and quantities damaged.
- Transparent production plan available in real-time, on the fly.
- Ability to view the progress of orders.
Solution: Kotrak MES – a dedicated application for production management in terms of personnel and resources, with the possibility of automatic task planning and work allocation in a real-time manner.
Result:
Success:
- Kotrak MES is distinguished by its proprietary automatic scheduling system, which – based on assumed criteria – allows it to be customized for specific requirements,
- Kotrak MES can prioritize such decision-making elements as time available for employees, machine occupancy and availability, production continuity and many others,
- Kotrak MES automatically and dynamically allocates work to production employees, taking into account their skills,
- Kotrak MES has a user-friendly and easy-to-use interface,
- Kotrak MES is fed with real-time data flowing directly from production, which allows it to react ad hoc to the dynamically changing situation on production, restarting the plan and giving a new proposal for the distribution of work,
- Kotrak MES gives you easy access to all the information required to make quick as well as effective decisions.
- with voucher and label printers, used during production processes to identify tasks to be performed and semi-finished products on the shop floor,
- an application for touch-screen terminals based on NFC proximity card logging,
- the application is strongly linked to the SAP system, which serves as a base that feeds Warehouse Management Software with production orders and warehouse transfers to the production warehouse.
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