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James Walker rolls-out Mestec further within its UK Cockermouth (Cumbria) plant (Feb 2006)"The flexibility of the system together with its breadth of functionality presents us with many further improvement opportunities.”“The system has been well received by plant-floor operators”, states Adrian Wakefield, Business Services Director at James Walker, “they find the Mestec system easier to use than conventional ERP screens and it certainly contributes to them doing their job more efficiently. Operators simply follow instructions on the touch-screens and Oracle ERP transactions are executed by a series of automatic interfaces between Mestec & our ERP system in the background.” “It’s an excellent complement to an ERP system; it allows us to populate our ERP with much more timely information and as a result our tracking is improved and we can be more responsive to customer demand changes.
“But that’s not all; as a third roll-out phase we will be using the Mestec system to capture quality data and provide electronic work instructions & engineering change alerts to operators. The flexibility of the system together with its breadth of functionality presents us with many further improvement opportunities,” concludes Adrian Wakefield. About Mestec Mestec is a leading UK provider of MES (Manufacturing Execution System) software delivering tangible business benefits to its manufacturing customers.
Mestec MES is the first and only truly configurable off-the-shelf Manufacturing Execution System solution designed to provide real competitive advantage to manual-intensive manufacturing organisations. Mestec MES transports the vast amounts of bi-directional manufacturing-centric data between plant operations and other business systems and creates a completely paperless plant-floor environment.
This dramatically enhances production efficiency and provides management with realtime visibility into plant operations providing valuable decision support information. Mestec bridges the gap between the plant-floor and the enterprise, integrates plant operations at a process level, thereby leveraging the latent power and potential of all other IT systems in the value chain. The Mestec-integrated business model provides many of the fundamental components of a best-in-class manufacturing capability.About James WalkerFor over 120 years, James Walker has worked at the forefront of fluid seal development and materials science to provide industries worldwide with the top-quality products that are vital to the safe and efficient operation of plant and machinery. James Walker is a UK-based company with a global reputation for solving fluid sealing problems. It brings practical expertise and leading edge technology to the custom-design of optimum sealing solutions to match customers' exact operational specifications, backed by testing and manufacturing to world-class standards.
The company manufactures over 200,000 different fluid sealing products: gaskets, compression packings and seals of virtually every size and industry standard. Its distribution network covers over 100 countries. James Walker & Co Ltd is a part of the James Walker Group.
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