Mattec MES - Production Control

Answer your toughest manufacturing and processing questions with the Mattec MES real-time manufacturing execution system

Gain access to real-time manufacturing information. Improve plant productivity and eliminate machine downtime. Increase productivity, unlock capacity and reduce inventory and labor costs.

Solarsoft's manufacturing execution system, Mattec MES, provides real-time monitoring and control for your production and process manufacturing. The system improves productivity by providing accurate 24/7 real-time manufacturing information of all your plant operations. Gain a competitive edge for your continuous improvement initiatives with Solarsoft's Mattec MES.

Solarsoft's Mattec MES helps you reduce scrap, waste and machine downtime, improve cycle times, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), plant productivity and automatic part qualification, and schedule production effectively. Mattec MES helps you become proactive in your manufacturing operations and helps anticipate and solve manufacturing problems before they occur. Helping you identify resource inefficiencies, Mattec MES lets you do more with your existing resources and find new capacity.

Solarsoft's real-time production monitoring system, Mattec MES, features:

NEW: Mattec MES Version 8 Now Available

Mattec MES Version 8 features a new graphical interface, web-based, real-time production monitoring, enhanced scheduling, and faster reporting to boost manufacturing efficiency.

Solarsoft Mattec MES Highlights

• Web-based real-time insight: Real-time production monitoring from your intranet or the internet.
• Visual clarity: Color code R&D, test and other non-production tasks to distinguish from production runs and ensure time is reserved in the schedule.
• Production detail and descriptive information at-a-glance: Users can now quickly see details with as many as four labels for each job in the Scheduler.
• Machine odometer: Maintenance and reliability teams can more accurately plan preventative maintenance activities with easy-to-access machine condition reports and details and answer questions like "How many hours has each machine run since the last scheduled maintenance?"
• Quickly monitor up to 100,000 cycles: The redesigned cycle history chart can be run within seconds, and includes information from the last 100,000 cycles.
• Greater printing flexibility with Ultra Label Gold printer redirect: Users can now add two printers per machine with Ultra Label Gold, or use the new on-demand printing module and Zebra for more options for bar-coded label printing.

Real-time Information and Machine Alarms

• Actual machine and plant performance in real-time, including actual production, scrap rate, down machines, process alerts, operator assistance calls, and inefficient machines
• Actual cycle times to standard cycle times comparisons
• Real-time machine and tool preventive maintenance information
• Instant alerts via stack lights, diverters, voice systems, and visual displays for invalid process conditions and machine downtime
• Alarms when scrap rates exceed threshold or when efficiency drops too low
• Escalating email alarms sent to multiple people at different times

Statistical Process Control

Mattec MES includes a comprehensive SPC program that provides analysis of part weights and dimensions as well as critical machine process parameters. The system collects machine process data automatically, 24/7, for product traceability purposes.

Real-time Scheduling

The Mattec MES' drag-and-drop scheduler provides management with a plant or enterprise view of what is happening on the production floor. The real-time scheduler board automatically updates based on machine run times and down time. The scheduler supports family molding scheduling for injection and blow molding manufacturers and Kanban scheduling. Various management and operator reports detail the actual manufacturing performance vs. schedule and what materials are needed for specific jobs.

Mattec MES OPC Connector

Solarsoft's Mattec MES OPC connector uses the latest OPC technology - OPC Unified Architecture. It's the new standard for secure, reliable and vendor-neutral transport of raw data and pre-processed information from your shop floor manufacturing operations into your production planning, ERP, MIS or other software systems. Utilize Solarsoft's new Mattec MES OPC Connector to:

• Monitor machines, including ancillary-type (e.g. assembly) machines to gain visibility into true plant or enterprise-level OEE
• Eliminate hardware and wiring on the plant floor for cost-effective and fast installation and maintenance
• Automate the collection of scrap counts and reasons as well as downtime reasons from an OPC-compliant PLC
• Best of both worlds: Collect data from both hardwired Machine Interface Units (MIUs) and OPC connectors into your Mattec MES