SyncMES®

Quality Management

Like the type of production process, quality assurance practices at the MES level vary from company to company.

Assembly industry

In the assembly industry, automatic testing plays an important role, as does ensuring the assembly of right components, e.g. by identifying each component with a barcode reader.

Batch processes

In batch production, e.g. in the steel or chemical industry, quality data can be collected entirely from laboratory measurements or direct on-line quality measurements of the process. In this case, the MES LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) interface is key.
Often, quality assurance is based on sampling, which is performed according to the product, order, or production line as instructed and supported by the system.

In SyncMES, for quality assurance, it is possible to define, for example, product group-specific quality plans, which include the desired quality measurements and quality target requirements can be set for the results. Instructions for measurements can be given in the plan as separate documents or, for example, simply as information about the required measurement frequency.

Once the quality criteria have been defined in the quality plan, control measures are defined. The control measures determine for each criterion to be inspected how the criterion is to be inspected and when the inspection will be carried out (time basis, production volume, random sampling, etc.).

SyncMES can even be used for real-time quality sorting. Based on process measurements related to quality control, the production process can be controlled, for example, part of a production batch can be rejected or scrapped