Work orders that close where they were signed off
The floor is where the plan meets reality. We put operation sign-off, material issue and deviation capture at the station, so the record is made by the person who did the work.
Production booking happens at the end of the shift, from memory.
Rework is done but never costed, so job margin is fiction.
A deviation is a paper form in a supervisor’s drawer.
Nobody can say which operation a job is sitting at right now.
Routings and operations
Operation sequence, work centres, standard times and the documents each station needs to see.
Work order execution
Release, material issue, operation start and finish, and labour booked as it happens.
Quality and deviations
Inspection at the operation, non-conformance raised at the station, disposition routed by severity.
Traceability
Batch and serial genealogy from raw material through to the unit that shipped.
Included in every MES scope
Routing and work centre map Station hardware review Sign-off and role matrix Deviation severity model Document control at station Rework and scrap accounting Shift handover report Operator training on the floor
The seams we design first
What AI does on a shop floor, specifically
Pattern spotting across records that already exist. No model signs off an operation.
Deviation clustering
Non-conformances grouped by the operation, tool and shift they came from, so a recurring cause is visible before the monthly review.
Cycle time drift
Operations running slower than their own history flagged with the jobs that show it, rather than a variance report at month end.
Operator assist
Work instructions and prior deviations for the same operation surfaced at the station, in the operator’s language.
Sign-off gaps
Jobs moving forward with an operation unsigned or a document unread, listed before they reach dispatch.
Walk us through a rework loop.
We will show you where the record should have been made and what it would have cost to know sooner.