LeanwareMES – a visual and guiding manufacturing execution system

When you want to reach everyone at the same time – choose LeanwareMES as your manufacturing execution system. MES makes work easier as information flows easily from operative management to the production shop floor. 

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“LeanwareMES as a local tool helps both installers and management in daily tasks. The real-time entry of exceptions reduces the need to rely on memory. Up-to-date information also shortens the learning curve, allowing an installer to move from one work station to another quicker than before.”

– Toni Salovuori, Production Manager, Metso Outotec Finland Oy

“We achieved the set goals working with Leanware. We were able to simplify the manufacturing process and increase efficiency, in addition to ensuring manufacturing quality also to the benefit of our customers. We have stayed on schedule and within budget. Leanware is a capable, flexible and agile partner.”

– Riku Niemi, Purchasing Director, Neles Oyj

“The components move along the lines at the factory. In this way they will not be broken and will not be forgotten in the wrong place. The savings can be seen, for example, in the fact that we now have 100 forklift trucks moving goods from one place to another. At the end of the year, there will be only five. “

– Mika Tyrväinen, Production Director, Isku Teollisuus Oy

MES makes information and work flow

A manufacturing execution system or MES is intended for the management and tracing of the operations in production. MES transmits information between various systems and production automation. MES is the missing piece between ERP and production. The LeanwareMES system is available as both a SaaS and on-premises.

With the LeanwareMES system, production becomes more transparent. Information and instructions run digitally without rolling papers. Information travels from management to production workers, as well as to machines and equipment, and equally in both directions. 

  • The system tells production workers what and when to do 
  • Operational management is informed of what is happening in production and communication becomes more efficient 
  • For business management, the MES system appears as an increase in efficiency and results 

Benefits

A real-time view of the production situation

Standardization and repeatability of work is made easier

Quality assurance and traceability of production

One user interface in production

LeanwareMES operations

In addition to the employee, the LeanwareMES system controls automation and material flows, reducing unnecessary waste. 

  • Production orders
    Receive production manufacturing needs from ERP as production orders and manage orders. 
  • Production planning and work queues
    Organize orders into resource workstation-specific work queues and display work queues on the factory floor. 
  • Work phases and process
    Control and manage the work phases and processes involved in manufacturing. 
  • Tasks
    Specify the level of control using different types of tasks associated with work phases. You can take advantage of the tasks in the standardization of the manufacturing process. 
  • Completion reporting
    Record the number of curant and uncurant and track the progress of phases and tasks in real time. 
  • Materials
    Display a work-stage specific material list based on the product structure. 
  • Semi-finished products, modules and sub-orders
    Control the manufacture of semi-finished products, sub-assemblies and modules through sub-orders and work stages. 
  • Machine and equipment integrations
    Send and receive data from production machines, equipment and tools. Forward to machines such as product-specific manufacturing parameters. 
  • Invitations, Disturbances and Alerts
    Create and handle a variety of production calls and disruptions. You can also make use of the functions e.g. in the implementation of andon or in incident reports. 

  • Defects
    Report and manage defects in production. You can utilize defects reports for in-production incident management and analyze them afterwards. 
  • Quality checks
    Create and control quality inspections during or at the end of production. Determine the checks to be carried out always or periodically. 
  • Working instructions
    Manage and display work instructions essential for manufacturing, such as images, documents, and written instructions. Align the instructions with the right product, order and process step. 
  • Traceability
    View receipts during production, i.e. manufacturing history. Collect batch/serial numbers of products and materials and view the traceability chain they form. 
  • Test equipment integrations
    Send and receive data from test equipment. Automatically forward information to test equipment, e.g. product and order. 

  • Picking requests
    Send the picking requests for the materials needed in manufacturing to LeanwareWMS in a timely manner. 
  • Produced items
    Report produced items to LeanwareWMS system in real time. 
  • Consumption of materials
    Report the decrease on the balance to the LeanwareWMS upon completion. Enable automatic material replenishments for production based on consumption. 
  • Storage requests
    Send LeanwareWMS a storage request for products/balance completed for production. 
  • Separate material requests
    Send a separate fill request to the LeanwareWMS for material that has not been automatically collected or replenished for production based on consumption. 
  • Production balance view
    View the production workstation cell balance situation based on the information provided by the LeanwareWMS system. 

  • Invitations, disturbances and alerts
    Create and handle maintenance-related invitations and disruptions. 

 

  • Visualization and key performance indicators (dashboard)
    View and review the production situation in real time with visualization and key figures. 
  • Analytics and reports (analytics)
    View production and quality metrics and trends using PowerBI report views, for example, for the last month. 

  • Browser-based user interfaces
    The browser-based software can be used on a variety of devices and brands without software installation. 
  • Language
    Use the software in Finnish, English, Germany or, if necessary, in another separately translated language. 
  • Data archiving and reports
    Store the data stored by the system in an archive database in a repository. Use a standard or separate external report to view data in the data warehouse. 
  • Standard Interface
    Connect the system to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system using the standard LeanwareMES interface. System follows the ISA-95 standard.  

Read our customers’ success stories

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12 months of production digitalization

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Isku requires quality and efficiency in production – Leanware’s MES system adopted

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Metso Outotec eliminates manufacturing inefficiencies using LeanwareMES

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