Manufacturing Execution and Intelligence

Give supervisors and managers a clear view of manufacturing performance.

Your plant manager needs answers to questions like: which machines are idle, who is waiting for materials, when will that job finish, what is the current yield?

In the board room, the questions may be different: which plant achieves the highest productivity and why? But the challenge is shared - how to achieve:

• Better Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE – see side bar)
• Improved yield through reduced defects and scrap
• More accurate scheduling and delivery forecasting
• Efficient schedules for preventive maintenance

Our MES and EMI systems deliver unprecedented clarity and insight into manufacturing performance at plant level and across the enterprise.

Ready-to-run configurations are available for plastics and rubber injection molding, extrusion, blow molding, blown film, metal stamping and die-casting.

Key Features

Years of manufacturing expertise have been built into Solarsoft’s production monitoring and control systems so you can:

• See real-time production data presented in clear, graphic format with status visible from plant level down to individual machines and jobs.
• Drill into statistical process control (SPC) and statistical quality control (SQC) metrics, also available in real-time.
• Collect accurate real-time activity data directly from plant and equipment using our Machine Interface Units (MIUs) or 3rd party SCADA sources – with optional operator touch screen.
• Share production schedule and events data automatically with your core ERP application using the Solarsoft Open Services Architecture.
• Review key performance indicators on the board room “Dashboard” for true Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI).

A comprehensive package of integration, support and maintenance services is available from Solarsoft to ensure rapid setup and effective deployment.

See the Mattec micro-site (www.mattec.com) for full information and sales enquiries about our Mattec products. For information about Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence systems see details of the Informance system at our subsidiary site (www.informance.com).