eFlex Systems: Reimagining Production with Integrated MES

“Manufacturers today use a variety of software solutions that include traceability, quality, and maintenance systems to meet specific needs of the plant operations. These solutions are expensive to implement, often fall short on integration needs and lack flexibility,” begins George Jewell, Vice President, eFlex Systems. Each of these solutions are different solutions many times from different providers. “These systems typically don’t communicate to each other, restricting the manufacturer to share and analyze data with other systems for enhanced operations.” Headquartered in Rochester Hills, MI, eFlex Systems provides a comprehensive Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that encompasses web-based lean manufacturing tools and solutions that processes real-time data gathered on the plant floor, statistically pin-points problematic areas, and informs the results to the key stakeholders through an email or a text.

The MES solution by eFlex System also includes eFlex Assembly, a flexible assembly line planning and management solution, for optimizing the management of assembly process. It integrates equipment and manpower on the plant floor to create an intelligent Plug & Play manufacturing system that is globally installed and highly flexible for production, maintenance, and training. With these capabilities, manufacturers are able to eliminate issues such as delay in product launch, lack of production flexibility, and reporting that does’t react to configuration changes automatically. “eFlex Assembly captures the cycle times down to the sub-task level automatically and creates paperless job instructions while configuring manufacturing line,” says Jewell. To ensure Just-in-time scheduling, components should be delivered on time. With eFlex Kitting, manufacturers will have the “right part at the right place at right time.”

While streamlining the assembly and kitting procedures, it is necessary to keep a track of every part’s manufacturing and assembling process. eFlex Track and Trace, a web-based solution with automatic failover provides real-time status of the parts in an operation with sub second response times.“The model based part-flow throughout the process can be easily setup with a drag and drop web interface for each variant,” says Jewell. Additionally, the solution provides visualization of part’s status, real-time and historical information of the operation.