What Is Advanced MES?

Advanced MES is a critical part of any Smart Factory or sustainability project. Epicor Advanced MES collects data directly from equipment and operators on the shop floor in real-time, maximising data accuracy and process automation. With information instantly in your hands, you can anticipate and solve production problems before they happen.

• Improve efficiency
• Reduce waste
• Improve quality
• Increase uptime

Features

• **Real-Time Production Scheduling: **Production scheduling has an impact on the entire business—from commit-to-order, to resource planning, even job costing. Your reputation, growth, and ability to conduct business profitably depends on delivering the right quantity of the right product at the right time.
• **Business Intelligence and Analytics: **View the big picture of how your business is performing at all times. Our analytics engine includes an out-of-the-box connection to Advanced MES, meaning you get a fast implementation and fast ROI.
• **Data Integration: **Integrate seamlessly with other systems using the Data Exchange module. The Data Exchange module is an intuitive import and export wizard for Advanced MES. You’ll have a fast, easy way to transfer data, avoiding manual data entry and helping ensure data integrity.
• **Alerts and Notifications: **Automate shop floor communications with automatic messaging and escalation, so supervisors, managers, maintenance crews, and engineers can respond immediately to risk conditions in the plant.
• **Quality Management: **Get timely feedback and pre-emptive responses with the Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Statistical Quality Control (SQC) module. Use real-time IoT sensor data to help you respond to production conditions before making bad parts.
• **Energy Monitoring: **Sustainability initiatives mean you have to monitor energy usage and waste across your plant operations. Monitor energy usage by plant, department, resource, job, or part. Tackle costs, reduce emissions, and help cut recurring energy bills.
• **Digital Twin: **The ABLE Digital Twin application is a versatile tool that pulls data from your IoT devices to create a visualization of all your shop floor data. Using the replay mode, you can go back in history and visually review information to see what caused an issue earlier in the day.
• **Incident Management: **Improve communication between operators and engineers with a combined system of digital signage on the production floor, Andon lights, and electronic ticketing.
• **Maintenance: **Proactively manage maintenance activities to enhance equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and optimize resource utilization.

Benefits

• **Real-Time Shop Floor Visibility: **Automatically capture data from machines and sensors on the shop floor. Powerful visual data empowers your employees, fostering openness, accountability, and responsiveness. Effective real-time information can help your company prevent issues before they escalate, improving response times and enhancing collaboration from the shop floor to the top floor.
• **Boost Efficiency and Improve Uptime: **Find out in real-time when a machine is not running efficiently so you can make quick adjustments and improvements. Use collected and tagged performance data to implement continuous improvement programs, helping your business run efficiently with maximum up-time.
• **Increase Quality and Customer Satisfaction: **Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Statistical Quality Control (SQC) use real-time actionable data to help you respond to production conditions, avoiding any potential errors that could lead to defective parts. Enable consistent results without consistent oversight and easily conform to your customer’s quality standards.