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FactoryWorx^TM Production Management module addresses all vital areas of operational management in manufacturing.  Intelligent, sensor-enhanced capabilities provide full visibility of physical and digital factors, enabling, planning and responsiveness to the enterprise-wide planning, decisions and customer-supply-chain interdependencies.

This extensive Module includes multiple functionalities, offering a range of solutions relating to the management of two key aspects of manufacturing: Production Management, which involves creating saleable products utilising materials, labour and activity management; and, Operations Management, which involves Distribution, Logistics and Transportation of products and goods.

FactoryWorx^TM Production Reporting module is Industry 4.0 and IIoT powered and provides superior ability to connect, access and leverage data. This gives our clients a massive competitive advantage to accelerate their operations and quality of outcomes.  As an out-of-the box visualisation and reporting system it provides manufacturing and warehousing operations with an extraordinary capacity for valuable and timely insights  that drive pre accurate decisions and pre-emptive actions.

FactoryWorx^TM Quality Management is the smartest path to automating quality and compliance processes for long-term customer satisfaction. It automates your quality processes with digitised recipe management and product specifications, automated controls, real-time trends, statistics, and notifications, ensuring strict adherence to internal and external quality standards.

Unlike  many quality management systems, FactoryWorx^TM Quality Management is Industry 4.0 and IIoT enabled. As one of the core modules of FactoryWorx^TM MES solution, this extensive module has a superior ability to collect, analyse and leverage extensive range of insights to give you a massive competitive advantage.

Key Functionalities:

• Integrations
• Quality Control Management
• Alerts and Notifications
• Quality Reporting
• SPC, QPC Analysis
• Manufacturing Process Control
• Digitised Documentation and Document Control
• Problem Resolution, CAPA
• Complaints – Customers, Supply Chain
• Materials Quality Assurance
• Predictive Quality Management
• Continuous Improvement

FactoryWorx^TM Inventory Management is responsible for tracing and managing inventory and stock with focus on accuracy, traceability and cost optimisation. FactoryWorx^TM Inventory Management automation and real-time inventory visibility of digital and physical information provides superior efficiency and accountability of inventory management in the manufacturing process, from purchase order (PO) and components arriving at the loading dock, to product traceability through the entire Supply Chain to the Customer.

FactoryWorx^TM Inventory Management includes and differentiates between Inventory Management and Stock Management.

Key Functionalities:

• Organisation of inventory
• Digitisation process
• Accuracy
• Logistics
• People

When legacy and newer stand-alone systems are crippling manufacturing operations, FactoryWorx^TM Integrations module offers an elegant out-of-the-box solution. It enables manufacturing and warehousing operations to fully integrate all aspects of their physical and digital activities on the production floor with enterprise-wide business systems. As is one of the key elements of FactoryWorx^TM advanced MES suite solutions, this module delivers instant results – with an added layer of intelligence built-in.

In the age of IIoT hyper-connectivity  there is no room for stand-alone applications. The best software systems no longer operate in isolation. They not only integrate with other systems but become conduits for other systems to integrate effectively.

Key Functionalities:

• ERP | SAP
• Other Business IT Systems
• Hardware: Printers | Checking | Weighing Equipment
• Middleware: LGVs | AGVs | Robotics
• Specialist Production Equipment
• Platform Partners

FactoryWorx^TM Dashboards is an advanced business and manufacturing visualisation software that automatically captures data from all business systems, including IIoT devices, analyses and provides people at all levels with a highly visual and easy to understand snapshot of important business information.

FactoryWorx^TM Dashboards provide instant, real-time visibility of KPIs, activity status, and metrics for urgent or strategic decisions relevant to specific objectives or business goals. And FactoryWorx^TM Dashboards are accessible from anywhere, any time.

FactoryWorx^TM Dashboards integrate with FactoryWorx^TM Production Reporting module, ensuring the quality and usability of reports and data collected by the production software.

Key Functionalities:

• Data Acquisition
• Visualisations
• Personalisation
• Collaboration

FactoryWorx^TM Logistics Management is an exceptional digital platform for managing and optimizing logistics and transportation to ensure that products are manufactured and delivered to customers in the most efficient manner. The module comprises the FactoryWorx^TM Transportation Management System (TMS) that manages the physical journey of the product from the loading dock through production lines, to customer delivery. With powerful tracking and tracing capability it streamlines transportation requirements across product life cycle, analysing costs from multiple carriers to help you reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer satisfaction.

Key Functionalities:

• FactoryWorx^TM Logistics Transportation Management (TMS)
• FactoryWorx^TM Chain of Responsibility (COR)
• FactoryWorx^TM Load Builder

FactoryWorx^TM  Paperless module is designed to facilitate and accelerate digital manufacturing transformation. It’s primarily about outcomes, achieved through capture and leverage of data to drive better business decisions and ultimately better business performance. FactoryWorx^TM Paperless solution enables companies to create a digital environment where reliable and fully integrated workflows are instantly visible and available when and where needed. It effectively connects machines, processes, systems and people as intelligent networks.

Key Functionalities:

• FactoryWorx^TM Process Mapper
• FactoryWorx^TM From Builder – Forms and Document Creation
• Workflow Optimisation Design

FactoryWorx^TM Maintenance and Asset Management is an IIoT driven solution with advanced capability to rapidly collect and analyse data from a vast range of equipment and instantly deliver important insights. It enables manufacturers to significantly reduce or eliminate the major production cost driver: downtime associated with equipment performance.  FactoryWorx^TM Maintenance Management module provides comprehensive functionality to ensure smooth, efficient and effective running of production with insights that benefit enterprise-wide decisions and projects.

Key Functionalities:

• Inventory Management
• Labour Management
• Asset Management
• Work Order (WO) Requests
• Documentation Management
• Maintenance & Asset Reporting
• Mobile App
• Predictive Asset and Maintenance Management (AI)
• Integrations

FactoryWorx^TM Team Collaboration is a paperless work management solution that helps teams stay focused on important goals, projects, and daily tasks that grow business and provide people with measurable sense of achievement.  It  leverages the integrations of FactoryWorx^TM MES and is often implemented as part of FactoryWorx^TM Continuous Improvement platform with which it shares lean and agile tools.

Key Functionalities:

FactoryWorx^TM Energy Management system (EMS) is cloud-based and allows companies to monitor and manage their energy usage with real-time automation. Data collected using IIoT devices and integrations is analysed in real-time to generate alerts and notifications about any irregular patterns. It also connects with weather stations to access data such as temperature, moisture, humidity. FactoryWorx^TM EMS automatically predicts energy usage for the next day or planning period, enabling predictive, optimised planning and scheduling.

Key Functionalities:

• Data Acquisition
• Real-time  Visualisation / Reporting
• Automatic Energy Monitoring
• Energy Auditing