Less cost and time pressure, more profitability

BiSoftMES enables automotive suppliers to produce zero-defect production from batch size 1Augsburg, 04.10.2018 No other sector is as precisely timed as the automotive industry. The multi-stage work processes of sequential manufacturing are precisely coordinated and yet must be able to be used flexibly for different product variants. Suppliers are under enormous cost and time pressure. You need powerful tools to meet the requirements of JIT and JIS productions. For optimal planning, control and monitoring of sequentially structured production from batch size 1, gbo datacomp, one of the leading experts for comprehensive MES solutions, has the Manufacturing Execution System BiSoftMes developed. biSoftMES copes with increasing complexity in manufacturing. Suppliers are able to produce economically despite high cost and time pressure. Automotive manufacturers are confronted with increasing individualization of customer requirements, which means that the suppliers' individual products are becoming ever more varied. As a result, complexity increases both in manufacturing and in planning, when, for example, assembly lines have to be rescheduled as little as possible without downtimes. biSoftMES supports planning by using the latest data to display a digital image of the entire production process and thus enables optimal production planning in order to achieve the highest possible workload. At the assembly lines, the MES solution provides workers with all relevant information about the component as well as detailed instructions for The upcoming work steps. The digital order folder in BiSoftMES contains this data. Even if network disruptions occur, BiSoftMES ensures that there are no production downtimes by allowing workers to continue to access information about the manufacturing process directly at their workplace even in the event of network failures. Even quality tests are possible with the MES solution. An intelligent process lock checks in real time whether a component meets the specified quality standards or notifies the worker of upcoming tests by him. Since BiSoftMES processes production data in real time, it is possible to react quickly and adequately to current changes, for example when they exceed or fall below defined limits. Freely configurable key figures in accordance with ISO 22400 also increase transparency across all manufacturing processes, so that optimization potential can be used to increase profitability in production. In addition, BiSoftMES meets the high traceability requirements of automotive manufacturers across the entire production chain. In order to communicate optimally with third-party software solutions, BiSoftMES not only has the typical interfaces such as OPC or OPC UA, but also the MTConnect communication protocol. This guarantees a smooth exchange of data between machines and systems. The gbo Virtcont module is available for older machines. This allows all machines and systems that do not have OPC interfaces to be integrated into the data world “With BiSoftMES, automotive suppliers are turning zero-defect production into reality,” explains Michael Möller, managing director of gbo datacomp. “BiSoftMES ensures sustainable planning, control and monitoring of complex manufacturing processes, so that companies can expand their competitiveness despite great cost and time pressure. ”