MES Digitalizace

With the Assembly module, you can monitor even manual production – automatically and in real time

Whether it’s assembling, mounting, or packaging, keeping an eye on manual workstations is always one of the biggest challenges. Each product usually involves multiple assembly steps that must be carried out in a specific order and within a defined time frame. And when something goes wrong, it’s vital to know who did what and when.

To provide an automated solution, we developed the MES SoftLi module called Assembly. It allows real-time monitoring of data from assembly stations. With its integration, you can easily visualize, evaluate, and compare production with the plan and take the necessary actions to ensure the order is completed.

The Assembly module is revolutionary in its ability to track tasks that rely purely on human effort.

This includes tasks such as assembly, completion, or packaging. Whether they occur in a single step or consist of several consecutive actions, MES always recognizes at which stage they are. This used to be a problem in the past, because without machines, production systems had no data to collect and regular workers couldn’t report them.

The SoftLi team addressed this challenge by enabling MES to interpret human labor through communication events. These events usually involve physical interaction with the system – like starting a task, recording a downtime, marking its end, or scanning a barcode.

So how does MES work in everyday operations? It offers two available modes.

The first mode resembles machine behavior. The operator performs a task, completes it and then manually notifies the system, for example by scanning a QR code.

In the second mode, MES supports the production of items that are assembled in multiple phases. It tracks each assembly step, along with the time standards. The operator manually activates and carries out each task step by step. The result is a clear overview of the product's current stage, who is responsible, and how long each step takes.

Through communication events, MES SoftLi understands human assembly operations in the same way as a traditional production line. Even the output data are identical and you can visualize and interpret them in the same way as with classic automated production

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