May 22, 2013 - Production Process enhanced its ProductionACE manufacturing execution system (MES) with an SQL database to provide a universal, near real-time integration between ERP and production operations. ProductionACE uses Machine Data Transducers (MDT) to provide data collection from all types of manufacturing equipment: MDTs accept simple electrical machine operating signals instead of a more complicated serial data connection. Coupling MDT’s capability with the SQL database now available in ProductionACE provides manufacturers with a practical and universal means to integrate ERP with all types of discrete manufacturing. The benefits of integrating manufacturing and ERP include:
- Permits “what if?”
- Develops accurate delivery promises: download of Master Production Schedule to each production machine generates ship dates based on current conditions and machine constraints.
- Improves product costing accuracy by recording individual equipment OEE and performance.
- Eliminates manual labor and improves work-in-process and inventory accuracy with error-free, electronic record keeping.
- Enables ERP systems to collect manufacturing data as mandated by regulatory bodies.
- Simplifies ERP implementation by exchanging data through SQL tables, thus eliminating the need for ERP vendors to master the complexities of equipment integration.
scheduling changes at individual machine level without disrupting actual schedule.
