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Product Solutions Production

MES – production management

QAD MES

Production digitalisation or Industry 4.0 are the drivers that move manufacturing towards ever-greater automation and gradual replacement of people with machines and intelligent systems. If you want to integrate an enterprise system with machines, you could implement a dedicated third-party MES. However, to what degree will this lead to duplicate data in the enterprise and MES system? How do you ensure efficient communication between them? Who is going to be responsible for the MES system including long-term support? What will be the overall cost? Minerva offers MES as a part of the QAD Enterprise System.

With QAD MES, you get:

 
  • Reduced costs and time savings in organising production resulting from improved communication between the enterprise system and machines
  • Accurate, real-time records of actual levels of materials used, labour and machine time

Features

  • Everything is integrated into a single package:
    • The production plan is provided by QAD MRPII with a more detailed schedule for individual machine resources for production management being provided by Preactor APS by Siemens (where required)
    • The processes and BOMs required for production control are managed by QAD
    • The manufacturing machine resources are managed by QAD including their preventive and operational maintenance
    • QAD uses the MES module to communicate with all relevant machine resources and collect data directly from the workstations
    • QAD provides the product production history and batch traceability information
    • QAD provides analyses and indicators, such as OEE
  • QAD supports the replacement of discontinued products with up to date ones
  • The material supplied is scanned and recorded by warehouse personnel using RF terminals
  • We will install kiosks in the plant to show work queues per workstation and to record actual production figures
  • The kiosks also allow the operator to enter any relevant quality control data (operator ID, non-conformances, corrections of the values read, measured values, etc.) via scanning or touchscreen.
  • QAD evaluates actual production efficiency against predefined target levels and visualises OEE and other indicators
  • Weighing system integration for weighing-in and reading quantities
  • Measuring device integration for loading test results
  • Support for sheet metal flame cutting optimisation - integration with Radan, SAPS, WRykRys, Trumpf TruTops SW
  • Support for laser cutting - integration with JetCAM, Trumpf
  • Communication with the TruTops FAB sheet metal handling automation system
  • Integration with MOTOMAN and CLOOS robots
  • Integration with the Tulus and Prima Power press MES
  • Use of QR, barcodes, RFID, cameras and voice communication, forklift control, Kardex warehouses – see QAD Managed Warehouse. QAD Managed Warehouse.