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Making plans happen isn’t just about monitoring material shortages. Supporting activities can be the real cause of delays. Some non-material events customers have monitored using OTTO include:

• Scheduling and coordination of outside services (such as heat treating and plating)
• Quality Assurance for pharmaceuticals and inspection
• Moving off-site inventory to the plant
• Moving inventory from temporary (conveyor) location to pickable location
• Scheduling of overseas containers
• Design engineering for make-to-order

OTTO provides the ability to proactively manage the entire customer order backlog from top to bottom. It begins monitoring orders as soon as they’re booked and identifies and prioritizes those critical events that must happen every day so they can be managed and get orders produced and shipped on time.

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There are certain key questions that must be answered to determine whether or not an MES system would benefit your organization: 

• How do you analyze OEE?
• Is there an opportunity to reduce WIP inventory, indirect labor, downtime, waste or scrap?
• What is the cost and impact of producing and distributing shop paper including drawings and work instructions?
• Would you like to go paperless on your shop floor?
• How are your continuous improvement initiatives tied to your ERP?
• Is Management requesting real time production status reporting via dashboards or drilldown reports?
• What different “islands of automation” exist on your shop floor?

The answers to each of these questions could have a significant impact on the profitability of your business. Want to quantify your results? Contact George Moroses today to schedule your FREE MES ROI Analysis.

In IDF Customers, the default order class for the warehouse customer should be a user-defined order class (base order class = 004). Do not use base order class 002 or 005, to allow for automatic invoicing of warehouse orders (if a separate manual Ship Confirm event is required per the order class, auto invoicing cannot occur from Pick Confirm).

1. Eliminate paper shop packet and distribution of the paperwork to the shop floor.     
2. Eliminate manual (paper-based) recording activities and the need to key in the transactions.
3. Easy electronic scheduling by sequence and changing job priorities.
4. Evaluate differences using actual times compared to standards.
5. Improve data accuracy and eliminate the need to chase and fix errors.
6. Practice Real-Time data reporting to monitor efficiencies and identify problems as they occur.

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Did you know our Analytics Dashboard serves as the perfect complement to extend your MES solution?

Need real-time information regarding what shop orders are active, which lines are down, and overall OEE? Want to display all of this data in easy to understand graphs and charts with drill-down capability?

Contact us today to find out how our Analytics Dashboard can provide all of the information you need in real-time.

• MES Work Center Job Step Status
• MES Work Center Machine Status
• MES Shop Order Status
• MES Order / Operation Status
• MES Order / Parts Status
• MES Badge Status

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