We start on the shop floor, not in a slide deck.
Every project begins at the line itself: the stations, the machines and the handovers where data gets lost. From there we build in steps you can check, with one line running before anything is rolled out wider.
Planning
Nothing is installed yet. First we understand how your line works today, and agree on what the software must record. Two steps, done together with your team.
Walk the line
We spend time at the stations with the people who run them, and map where serials, lots and results are created, where they are typed in again, and where they get lost.
What we do and what you get
What we do
- Shop-floor walkthrough with production, quality and IT
- A map of every data handover, station by station
- An inventory of machine interfaces and data exports
What you get
- A written map of your current data flow
- One agreed, measurable problem to solve first
- An honest view on whether software is the right fix
Define the record
Together we decide what the finished record of a unit must contain, and which system owns each fact: the MES, the ERP, the warehouse or the machine itself.
What we do and what you get
What we do
- Data model for serials, lots and materials
- Stations, routes and interlocks for your products
- Interfaces to ERP, warehouse and quality systems
What you get
- A specification your team can review line by line
- A fixed scope for the pilot
Implementation
Now the software goes live, one line at a time, with real boards and your operators, until the whole plant works from the same record.
Pilot one line
One real line goes live first, with real boards, your operators and the machines you already run. Nothing is rolled out wider until this line works.
What we do and what you get
What we do
- Installation on one production line
- The first machines and test stations connected
- Operator training at their own stations
What you get
- Real boards traced from the first station to packing
- Operator feedback built into the next release
Roll out
Further lines, product families and integrations follow in the order that pays back first, planned with you rather than for you.
What we do and what you get
What we do
- More lines and product families
- The remaining equipment connected
- Administration handed over to your team
What you get
- One system across your lines
- Your own people maintaining routes, products and users
Support and extend
Lines change, and the software changes with them. We stay on to support what we built and to extend it when a new station, product or customer requirement arrives.
What we do and what you get
What we do
- Support agreement with defined contacts
- Regular, announced releases
- New stations and reports as the line changes
What you get
- A partner who already knows your line
Connected to what you already run.
The MES sits between your business systems and the shop floor. Facts are captured once, where they happen, and passed on validated, instead of being typed in again at every handover.
Which systems connect
- Business systems
- ERP, warehouse, quality management, label printing
- MES and traceability
- Work orders and routes, interlocks, serial and lot genealogy, dashboards
- Shop floor
- Laser markers, printers and SPI, placement, reflow, AOI, ICT and functional test, rework
What we need from you
Good manufacturing software is built with the people who run the line. Four things make the difference.
- A process owner
- Someone from production or quality who can decide, and who has time set aside for the project.
- Access to the line
- Time at the stations with operators, shift leads and maintenance, not only in meeting rooms.
- Machine documentation
- Manuals, interface descriptions and a few sample data exports from the equipment you want connected.
- An IT contact
- For the ERP interface, the network and the servers the system will run on.
Questions we hear first
Do we have to replace our ERP?
No. The ERP stays the system for orders, materials and finance. We connect to it and exchange validated data in both directions.
Our machines come from different vendors. Is that a problem?
Mixed lines are normal. We connect through what each machine offers, such as file exports, databases or network interfaces, and we check this on the line before we agree on a scope.
How long does a pilot take?
It depends on the number of stations and interfaces involved. We give you an estimate after walking the line, not before, because only then do we know what we are estimating.
Who owns the production data?
You do. Where the system runs, and who has access to it, is agreed with your IT team at the start of the project.
Can you build software that is not an MES?
Yes. When a process is specific to your factory, we build custom industrial software around the way the work is actually done.
Bring us one concrete production problem.
A trace that breaks between two stations, a handover done on paper, a test result nobody can find. Tell us where it hurts and we will tell you honestly whether software fixes it.