FLEX MES supports manufacturing data management and acquisition and production monitoring processes
Main features:
Production Plan Dispatching:
in compliance with other MES functionality, this feature sends information and instructions to operators by providing a real-time update of production plans.
The system also provides documents related to the production process such as technical drawings, operational instructions.
Shop floor sequencer:
this tool provides a "reactive" scheduling which can tempestively respond to events (errors, damages, etc.) and make it possible to do preemption (stopping a job to give priority to a more urgent one) and passing (a job goes before another one for urgency matters) activities.
Lean Manufacturing & Kanban:
functionality to support manufacturing companies adopting a Lean Manufacturing & Kanban approach. In particular, FLEX presents a module for Electronic Kanban for real-time monitoring and management of Kanban cards.
Data acquisition and machine interface:
through a specific graphical interface, this feature gets all data collected by workers or imported by shop floor control system.
The system also provides features for machine interface to get information about machine working status, quantity of dropped/rejected materials, machine arrest, etc.
Workforce Management:
it calculates the available capacity of resources in terms of hour/worker and it matches tasks with the available skills.
Resource and process real-time Monitoring:
it provides users with an instant and real-time view of the production process' progress status, by monitoring the involved resources (manpower, plants, machines) and turning on specific alerts (for downtime, returns, etc.) with integrated notification (email, sms, etc,.). A graphical interface provides these features in an effective and synthetic way.
Product and process Traceability and Tracking:
this feature creates traceability paths from raw materials to the end product by using unique codes and handling units. Thanks to this links, which include references to material batches and production resources (people and machines) needed for production process, it is possible to go back to the source of an issue at any level of the supply chain.
Item identification management features
Label printing
Integrated RFID application Middleware
Mobile features
features for warehouse management, traceability and quality management by using PDA (connected in Wi-Fi with Terminal Server for Mobile Devices technology). All the functions can be executed in real-time on the central system, as if working from a desktop.
Total Quality Management:
features for quality control and product traceability. It provides quality control plans to check each single phase of the production process; data collection features to manage control activities, production wastes and manufacturing faults; managing requests for sampling and gathering of statistical data; process control features; alerts for product defectiveness; shop-floor dashboard. This module provides also features for quality control on stocks as well as specific KPIs for quality management.
Warehouse Management:
warehouse management features including rules for material handling and extraction. Among the existing features there are: reception of purchased and outsourced material, inventory management, picking and packing management according to production plan. The application can also be used on mobile devices, connected in real-time with the company server.
Supply Chain Collaboration web portal
Web features to share supply chain data and information with company suppliers/outsourcers and customers. Some of the available features are: pubblication of purchasing orders and delivery plan, sending reminders to suppliers, displaying order progress status, etc.
Performance management and KPI analysis:
Thanks to this feature it is possible to calculate specific key performance indicators for MES, which are useful to check production system performance.
All production processes on a single application suite
Flex by Tecnest is the only software suite for Supply Chain Management developed in Italy which includes on the same application platform:
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an Advanced Planning & Scheduling system (APS),
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a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
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solutions for Quality Management, Warehouse Management and Product configurations
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a solution for Operations Management
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a Supply Chain Collaboration system
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a Business Intelligence system for data analysis
All Flex software solutions are scalable and can either be installed as integrated solutions or as stand-alone systems to be integrated with the existing ERP or third-part software.
Flex for Industry 4.0 /
Solutions for the ever-changing factory
Industrial R- Evolution
Our software solutions evolved in order to answer to the need of an ever-changing world.
FLEX for Industry 4.0 is the new paradigm of integrated applications for factory 4.0: new smart and web applications with Collaborative Manufacturing features and IoT technology to improve production processes and connect systems, machines and people.
Smart Factory Console
The new Smart Factory Console of FLEX for Industry 4.0 is a role-based web application for data collection and production process monitoring and to manage and analyze all data and information collected by industrial machinery, operators and products within the Factory 4.0.
The Smart Factory Console works as a clearing house for the information collected by machines and operations through Tecnest factory applications.
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Compliant with Industry 4.0 paradigm
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Easy-to-use role-based graphic interface
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Rapid execution performance
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Real-time integration with all Tecnest factory applications
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Analytics features and role-based dashboards
Social & Collaborative Manufacturing
New Social & Collaborative Manufacturing featureshas been implemented in order to create a real-time connection among different company functions.
Internal and external operators involved in the production process, can easily visualize, publish, share and manage information and data about processes and activities thanks to:
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New Collaboration Hub of FLEX for Industry 4.0
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Features for real-time content exchange (chat, screensharing, etc.)
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Features for delayed content exchange (FAQ, forum, document sharing, etc.)
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Features for the coordination of communication (kanban board, scrum, report, etc.)
Industrial Internet of Things
According to Industrial Internet of Things paradigms, all the data related to production time, quantity, orders or issues are communicated in real-time from industrial machinery to the system.
The FLEX for Industry 4.0 new IoT gateway connects and integrates machines, sensors, devices, automation systems and physical items within the smart factory.
These data are gathered in the Smart Factory Console, the main place where interaction and collaboration activities between the operators and the other production items take place.
J-Flex flyes to France with Tecnomaster Group
A new project abroad, this time in France, for Tecnest.
The Tecnomaster Group, one of the most important Italian companies in the Printed Circuit Board industry with subsidiaries in France, Germany, Hong Kong, commissioned the extension of the J-Flex system (already in use in the Italian headoffice) to the French plant.
The new project will include the implementation of both the APS (Advanced Planning & Scheduling) and MES (Manufacturing Exectuion System) solutions, in order to manage planning, scheduling and execution processes in the Paris plant.
The FLEX Manufacturing Execution System (MES) has been designed and developed by Tecnest in order to provide a solution to all Manufacturing Execution processes' needs.
Complete
In compliance the international MESA model, the FLEX MES solution provides features to manage the 10 main pillars of MES: data acquisition, Dispatching Production Unit, resource allocation & status, labor management, process management, quality control, traceability and tracking, Control PLCs, warehouse management, performance analysis.
The central FLEX MES solution is connected to the Smart Factory Console of FLEX for Industry 4.0. This is a role-based web application for data collection and production process monitoring and to manage and analize the data and information collected from industrial machinery, operators and products within the Factory 4.0.
Real Time
FLEX MES is complementary to the FLEX APS (Advanced Planning & Scheduling) solution. The FLEX MES solution is, in fact, natively integrated with the APS one. These two modules create the FLEX PWE (Plan while Executing) solution which, thanks to an integrated data architecture, provides a real-time synchronization between the planning and execution processes.
Thanks to this solution, it is possible to check (directly on the Gantt) the status of planned activities, while these are performed. That means, it is possible to modify the production plan in real-time, as soon as it turns out to be necessary.
Flexible
FLEX MES can run as a stand-alone application or be linked to the other applications of FLEX Suite (APS solution and ERP Operations features).
It can also be easily integrated with third-part APS systems and with the company existing ERP (such as SAP, JDEdwards, Baan, Microsoft Dynamics, etc).
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