A touch screen and barcode based factory focused solution, Mestec’s Manufacturing Smart Box system is designed to track, trace and report on key aspects of the entire production process ... from goods receipt to despatch.

What’s more, the Mestec Manufacturing Smart Box has been designed from the ground up to complement existing ERP systems, and not to replace ERP functionality.

The Manufacturing Smart Box interface is a simple touch screen configured for a specific set of factory activities. Its simplicity means that minimal training is needed. Typically, the Mestec Manufacturing Smart Box system is specified, chosen and implemented by manufacturing management, and not the IT department.

The Manufacturing Smart Box is flexible and can be rapidly deployed into even complex and changing environments. This makes it ideal as an ERP companion, capturing key production information in real time whilst seamlessly interfacing to the corresponding company information systems.

With a typical payback of two months to one year, Mestec’s Manufacturing Smart Box systems are affordably-priced, and available on either a low-cost monthly subscription, or through one-time perpetual licences. And a typical initial improvement project delivers results in days or weeks, not months or years.

Behind the factory interface there are a number of configurable optional modules designed for various parts of a manufacturing operation. These include:

• Stock management
• WIP tracking
• Bills of Materials
• Skills management
• Advanced Timesheets
• Tooling
• Downtime analysis
• Production Counting
• Work instruction viewing
• Scheduling
• Label Printing
• KPI Reports & Dashboards
• Inward ERP Transactions
  (e.g. schedule import)
• Outward ERP Transactions
  (e.g. completions reporting)

The Management Console provides easy configuration changes by supervisors and managers together with powerful real time KPI reports, alerts and dashboards.