Your ERP runs your business. MES runs your production.
MES · Production moduleMES software records what happens on your shop floor: which order is running, how much is done and where the time goes. Here it's the Production module of the MOM platform, alongside your ERP.
Numbers during the shift instead of after it.
- You know what's running after a walk past the lines.
- Downtime ends up in a notebook, or nowhere.
- Monday's numbers reach you on Wednesday, if someone types them up.
- The screen shows which order is running on each line, and how much is done.
- Every stop carries a reason, logged where it happened.
- The numbers are there when the shift ends, with nothing retyped.
This is what it looks like in the AIONIX portal.
What gets recorded on the floor.
Execution is a series of small registrations. Taken digitally, at the moment they happen, and tied straight to the production order underneath.
| On the floor | What the system records | What you get out of it |
|---|---|---|
| Starting an order | Machine, operator and timestamp | Real lead time per order |
| Reporting parts | Good and scrap, per hour | Yield per line and per product |
| A machine stops | The stop, with duration and reason | Where your machine hours go |
| Changeovers | Changeover time per machine and mould | What a switch actually costs |
| Running a check | The measurement on the right order | Scrap spotted during the run |
| Raising a report | Asset, symptom and timestamp | Maintenance that gets scheduled |
You don't start with all of it. A first line usually records orders, parts and stops, and the rest follows once the floor is used to it.
Connect, record, expand.
Connect
We connect the machines on your first line and pull the production orders from your ERP. No second order administration.
Record
The operator works on the screen at the line: start an order, report parts, log a stop with a reason. Whatever the machine reports itself, nobody types in.
Expand
If it holds up on that line, the next one follows, or a module beside it. Every module you add gives the others more context.
The same registration, four different questions.
Works on the screen
Start an order, report parts, log a stop with a reason. No notebook, no paper.
Watches the shift run
Which line is behind and why, while the shift is still running.
Knows the losses
Which loss costs you the week, measured per machine instead of estimated.
Sees what's left on the table
Whether the capacity you pay for actually comes out, and where it doesn't.
Five questions about MES software.
What is MES software?
Does this replace our ERP?
Do we need MES or MOM?
Do all our machines need to be connected?
How long does an implementation take?
Execution is the module the rest builds on.
MES isn't a separate system here. It's the Production module of the MOM platform, and what the floor records is immediately the context the other modules work in.
Work orders
The point where the floor enters data. The order sits on the screen at the line and nobody retypes a sheet afterwards.
Production monitoring
That same registration, summarised per line. Which order is running, how much is done and whether you'll make the date.
OEE monitoring
Stops with their reasons become a number per machine and per shift, with the loss that's costing you the week named.
What arrives once quality, maintenance, planning and traceability sit on the same layer is on the solutions page. What starting modular looks like in practice is at Moerman NV, and why execution doesn't belong in your ERP is in ERP vs. MES.
Put your entire shop floor on the same platform.
No 'big bang'. As a West Flanders-based team, we start at your SME with the first module on the first line, prove the value, and build out together to your full platform, at the pace and budget of an SME.