Manufacturing Execution System:
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Foundation for Agility
Manufacturing Execution Systems are now recognized as an effective means to address the growing complexity of production and supply networks. Manufacturers recognize that a manufacturing execution system (MES) can provide value in the definition, execution and adoption of production processes across the organization to ensure quality, efficiency and compliance. Real-time integration to ERP and other business systems is a necessity to synchronize production with planning.
As the only MES of its kind with the broad functionality and flexibility to support today’s extended manufacturing execution environments, FlexNet® Production delivers paperless work instructions and related work flow objects to the worker non-intrusively, resulting in accurate, error free, execution – in real-time – all in the users’ native language. As a web-based system, it can easily adapt to any manufacturing environment: simple or complex, small or large, high or low volume. It also seamlessly integrates with ERP, PLM and other business systems so manufacturers can achieve the enterprise-wide agility required to respond to new market opportunities, changes in demand and shifts in strategy.
Optimize Processes through Directed Manufacturing
Where competing Manufacturing Execution Systems are driven by selecting and executing transitions, FlexNet drives the user through approved, best-in-class process flows with complete enforcement, validation and audit of all operational processes. Using Apriso’s Process Builder™, your supervisory personnel can direct work to specific stations, and enforce your manufacturing processes throughout your network, from a single location.
Improve Quality
FlexNet Production is designed to enforce best practices through every step of the production process. It also supports continuous improvement initiatives by delivering visibility into manufacturing operations across any number of locations, and by collecting and analyzing data from multiple sources. Full genealogy and traceability, interlocking product and process, machines, work centers, resources and people, enables manufacturers to rapidly identify the root causes of quality issues.
Boost Efficiency
FlexNet Production automatically manages and tracks production tasks, eliminating paperwork and non-compliant processes. By providing visibility into operations, FlexNet Production optimizes materials management and reduces Work-In-Process (WIP) inventory, reducing manufacturing lead times while simultaneously improving on-time delivery. FlexNet Production is a fully redundant system providing 24x7 reliability, even if your ERP system or wide area network goes down.
Track Materials More Precisely
Unlike competing Manufacturing Execution System products that offer no inventory management capabilities, FlexNet Production lets you coordinate all inventory – including raw material, kanban inventories, work-in-process and finished goods – with production, quickly and precisely. That’s because all of the modules in the FlexNet suite are built on a unified data model, which gives you 100% real-time visibility to consumption, raw materials, receipts and fulfillment. The MES software keeps your supply chain in pace with your production line, helping to optimize your allocation of human resources and equipment, eliminate the need for costly safety stock, and transition to a leaner operation.
Reduces Costs of Compliance and Production
FlexNet Production enforces compliant work practices and provides the traceability and data collection required to rapidly identify root causes of quality issues. While regulatory agencies, such as FDA, European Union ISO, FAA, DoD, are driving up compliance requirements, FlexNet helps drive down compliance costs.
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