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News Release from: Marco | Subject: 'Trac-It MES'
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 June 2006
Trac-It MES reports on key performance
indicators
The Marco 'Trac-It MES' is a factory-based system designed to manage, initiate, respond to and report on every key performance location in real time
The Marco 'Trac-It MES' is a factory-based system designed to manage, initiate, respond to and report on every key performance location in real time Although MES Systems have been used for several years, primarily in process industries such as the automotive and engineering sectors, the food processing and other related industries are now becoming increasingly aware of its potential to drive costs down and profits up
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 1 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Key Performance Locations (KPL) can be found at: Goods Intake, Storage Areas, Hygiene Barriers, Work In Progress, Finished Product Packing, Quality Control Stations, Label/Code Verification, Order Picking, Despatch to Customer.
Collecting data from the KPLs shown above is one thing, but organising the data into usable real time information is another.
For many years there has been little effort or systems available to make this type of information available to factory managers and enterprise resource planning systems (ERP).
Trac-It MES bridges this gap as a system capable of integrating factory management information with the rest of the enterprise.
This integration carefully and expertly hooks the MES with.
* Order entry systems.
* Product specification.
* Bills of materials.
* Planning and control systems.
* Sales force delivery systems.
By establishing compatibility with existing ERP/MRP environments Marco claim to be leading the field and their user base is rapidly increasing in line with the growing trend in the food industry to implement Trac-It MES solutions.
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