End Paper-Based Order Packs and Integration Headaches on the Shop Floor
Say goodbye to hand-written logs, spreadsheets, and fragile integrations while enabling op-level updates, actual labor, and machine status. Operators and office handling of medium-high mix production, dynamic BOMs, and multi-step routings become easy.
Key Benefits of QAD Production Execution
Slash Overtime Costs and Burnout
Quit paying double for operators to update sheets that somebody else keys into ERP hours later.
Stop Suffering from Offline Data
Prevent OTIF and OEE losses due to lags between incidents happening and understanding their impact.
Satisfy Operations and IT
Enable floor efficiency, visibility, and connectivity while just asking IT for networked stations.
Key Capabilities to Harmonize a High-Performing and Paperless Shop Floor
Maximize awareness, access, and respond faster to exceptions
Enable real-time collaboration between scheduling and operations, providing immediate visibility to order progress and status. Cross-functional awareness shortens the time to knowledge and provides clearer, faster insights for optimized production and rapid response to unforeseen challenges.
Intuitive, visual, and contextual shop floor transactions
Provide a touch interface specifically designed for gloved shop floor operators. This removes paper-based processes, minimizes distractions, and significantly improves the integrity of data captured directly from production, leading to more reliable insights and decision-making.
Comprehensive time-stamped production data and insights
Simplify the capture of order & operation, employee, and equipment events. Consolidated and comprehensive production information forms the essential foundation for actionable performance analysis, and feeds product genealogy and traceability requirements for compliance and quality control.
Seamlessly extends core systems for unified operations
Eliminate silos and ensure painless data flow where it matters most:
- QAD Adaptive - master data management and real-time, bidirectional flow of production orders and inventory
- QAD Automation Solutions - request line-side component delivery
- QAD EQMS - approved documentation and training verification
Adaptable to diverse production environments
Inherent system flexibility, integration, and ease of configuration allow manufacturers to seamlessly adapt to across and within sites. Ensure agile responses to changing business needs and production demands while reducing maintenance costs compared to point solutions.
Frequently Asked Questions
If it fits what you need in an MES, yes. Though there is a theoretical definition of Manufacturing Execution Systems, every manufacturer knows that their operations are deeply personal. Needs can vary from one site to the next within a division, and even between production lines in the same plant. Production Execution is uniquely capable of providing operations and technology teams with shop floor reporting that is perfectly mapped to QAD Adaptive. It doesn’t attempt to cover every aspect of traditional MES, but many COOs and CIOs see how effortlessly Production Execution removes paper and data silos from the shop floor, and decide it’s the perfect next step toward digital manufacturing.
Yes, Production Execution is architected with the best-in-class SCADA platform Ignition (by Inductive Automation). Customers are pairing a predefined library of functions in Production Execution and Ignition’s comprehensive set of data acquisition tools to ingest machine data.
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