Fidar MES & Quality connects the shop floor to the ERP: operators record starts and stops on a touch panel, output counts come from PLCs and sensors, OEE is calculated live per machine and quality results attach to the same batch. It is one of the advanced capabilities on Fidar’s roadmap.
On the roadmap · builds on Manufacturing & MRP
This module is in development. What you read on this page is our design and plan for this module, not something you can use today. We publish its schedule and status on the roadmap.
Problem and solution
In many factories, output figures are written on paper at the end of a shift and keyed in the next day. Short stops aren’t recorded, the causes of scrap are unknown and the production manager always decides with yesterday’s data.
Five-minute stops never appear in a report, yet add up to hours every week.
Stops recorded with a reason from the operator panel or directly from machine signals, with Pareto analysis of causes.
OEE is calculated monthly in a spreadsheet with varying assumptions.
Live availability, performance and quality per machine and line, with one consistent definition.
Test results sit in the lab notebook, unlinked to the production batch.
Sampling plans, control charts and Cp/Cpk per operation; an automatic certificate of analysis per batch.
Maintenance happens only after failure, and spare parts aren’t in stock.
Preventive maintenance by time, usage or sensor data; failure history, MTBF and MTTR.
Capabilities
Before connecting machines, agree on definitions: what counts as planned production time, which stops are planned and what each machine’s ideal rate is. OEE without shared definitions isn’t comparable.
Keep the list of stop reasons short and specific — eight to twelve reasons are enough. A long list makes operators always choose “other”.
Start with one bottleneck machine. OEE gains at the bottleneck add directly to the whole plant’s capacity, and the result is tangible for management.
Design the operator panel with the operators. Buttons must work with gloves, text must be readable from two metres and logging a stop should take no more than two taps. A slow panel produces incomplete data.
Before connecting IoT, run manual entry on the panel for a few weeks. That tests your definitions and stop reasons, so when automatic counting is connected only the data source changes, not the process.
Integration
Fidar MES executes work orders from the Manufacturing module and reports back actual consumption, time, scrap and quality. That data drives actual product cost and management reporting.
Reports
From the live shift view to monthly management analysis.
Access
Operators see only their station and orders, supervisors see the whole line, and quality release is reserved for the quality role.
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An ERP manages planning and resources across the company; an MES manages real-time execution on the shop floor. Fidar puts both on one dataset. More in what is MES.
OEE is the product of availability, performance and quality. Our guide to ERP for manufacturing walks through an example, and the glossary defines each factor.
Connectivity is designed through a lightweight gateway using OPC UA and MQTT. Machines without digital output are covered by a count sensor or manual entry on the operator panel.
MES, OEE, IoT and SPC are advanced capabilities on the roadmap, released after Manufacturing. If your plant is a good pilot fit, describe it in the “Notify me” form.
Yes. Full batch genealogy from raw material to customer, process-parameter capture and automatic certificates of analysis are designed for exactly these industries.
Statistical process control monitors quality parameters with control charts so drift is spotted before defective product is made. More in what is SPC.
BOMs, work orders, material and capacity planning.
Multi-warehouse, lots and serials, cycle counts and putaway.
Pivots, charts and drag-and-drop dashboards on all your data.
Purchase requests, RFQs, orders and goods receipt.
We work with a handful of manufacturers before release so Fidar MES is built around real shop floors.