SyncMES®

Material tracking

The implementation of a material plan or recipe is often an essential quality assurance factor - SyncMES generates this information automatically. SyncMES also includes information on the progress of the production steps and the monitoring of the raw materials used in each production batch. This information is critical from a traceability perspective - and there is a great need for it even after the date of manufacture.

Material tracking answers critical questions about production:

• At what stage of production is the manufacture of a product, batch or component right now?
• At what point was it an hour ago?
• What materials or raw materials and how much is committed to each production batch, exactly?
• What batch of raw materials are the materials in the product?

Material tracking is most often based on product structures: it is known from the production order which material items are needed to produce it, and the corresponding actual consumptions are recorded for the production batch.

Material consumption can be obtained directly from automation as a continuous measurement, in which case MES's task is to allocate it correctly to the production batch or order.

If measurement is not available, the standard material consumption per product unit in the product structure can be used.

The amount of material consumed can also be entered manually. In this way, the result of the calculation can also be corrected if desired.

The allocation of material consumption can be based, for example, on the operator's acknowledgment in the MES of when the production of the production order has started and ended.

Batch production / batch processes

In batch production, the processing steps of the batch process can be controlled by an automation system or programmable logic, e.g. with an SFC sequence (Sequential Function Chart), whereby MES tracks the progress of the production and materials consumption by connecting the data storaging to the same signals in the automation interface, which move SFC sequence to next step.

In this way, MES can also monitor the implementation of the planned recipe of the batch or product: whether the correct materials were used and whether the quantities corresponded to the production instructions.