The platform
Your MES should run the factory, not just watch it.
SmartFactory covers the layer your ERP and accounts system cannot see: what the machines, tools, operators and inspections on your floor are actually doing — and what that costs. Nine capabilities, one system, one set of numbers.
Know
Know what is happening
The true state of every machine, job and inspection — measured from cycles and scans, not typed into a spreadsheet at four o’clock.
Machine states, downtime and OEE stream into role dashboards where every tile answers one written question, and the quality module takes the same evidence through to control charts your auditor can follow.
Live monitoring, honest OEE
OEE software that derives every machine’s true state from real cycle data, opens its own downtime events, and gives each role a board where every tile answers one written question.
- Live machine states
- True OEE
- Downtime Pareto
- Role dashboards
Quality, RFT and SPC
Quality management software: scan-driven inspections and right-first-time analytics, through to control charts, Cp/Cpk and a specification approval trail your auditor can follow.
- Scan-driven RFT
- SPC & Cp/Cpk
- Defect heatmaps
- Spec approval
Trace
Trace everything you make
Every label, lot and serial connected — from goods-in, through production, to the box on the wagon.
When a customer rings about a batch, the answer is one screen, not one weekend: which deliveries it arrived in, which jobs consumed it, which serials left, and the label history in between.
Labelling and traceability
Design labels in the browser, print to Zebra or BarTender through a queue that pauses rather than loses work, and trace every label to the check that consumed it.
- Browser label designer
- Zebra & BarTender
- GS1-128 / SSCC
- Durable print queue
Stock and inventory management software
Stock and inventory management software on one append-only ledger — warehouse and line-side locations, goods-in, quarantine, blind stocktakes, subcontract and despatch, with recall answers in one screen.
- Warehouse & line-side locations
- Lot & serial genealogy
- Goods-in & quarantine
- Subcontract & despatch
Run
Run the work — plan it, fix it, staff it
Works orders in from any ERP, drawn into processes, and scheduled around real shutdowns, real shifts and real mould changes.
When something breaks, the fault is reported from the machine in under a minute and escalated on a clock. And the people on shift see the same picture as the office — their machine, their jobs, their skills.
Process designer, scheduling and tool changes
Draw how a part is made and the drawing runs the factory — then schedule it on a Gantt that knows a mould change needs a preheat station. The designer says how, the Gantt says when.
- ERP import
- Live Gantt
- Process designer
- Tool changes & preheat
Maintenance and mould care
A fault reported in under a minute from a QR label, routed to the right team, escalated on a clock — and moulds that raise their own service on shot count.
- QR fault reporting
- Escalation ladder
- Shot-based mould PM
- Cost per repair
Operators, skills and presence
Every operator gets an identity and a shift view on their own device, a skills matrix that validates the assignment board, and presence from the door system.
- Operator portal
- Skills matrix
- Training requests
- Door-system presence
Count & Connect
Count the cost, connect without risk
Energy, material and labour resolved to one number: what a part costs you to make, in pounds — alongside the machines burning money doing nothing.
Underneath it all, a platform that connects to any machine four different ways, reaches the cloud through one outbound connection, and opens its API on every plan.
Energy monitoring software and your cost per part
IncludedWhat each part actually costs you to make, in pounds — plus the kWh-against-output ratio a CCA target is assessed on, the machines burning money doing nothing and the half-hours driving your peak demand charge.
- £ cost per part
- kWh per kg (SEC)
- Idle waste in £
- UK tariff bands
Machine connectivity & API
Machine connectivity over OPC UA, Modbus TCP, relay and power-signature capture, a site gateway that needs no inbound firewall rule, and an API and webhooks on every plan.
- OPC UA & Modbus
- Power-signature capture
- Site gateway
- API & webhooks
The principle underneath all of it
The MES that tells you when it doesn’t know.
An empty window says “No production in this window” rather than showing a convenient 0% OEE. A number affected by a sensor dropout carries the caveat next to it. A tile nobody has configured links you to the fix instead of printing a zero. Every board in SmartFactory is built so that a number you can act on and a number you can’t are never the same colour.
See your factory live in thirty minutes.
Book a demo and we’ll walk you through a running factory — or register for a free trial and get a simulated factory of your own to play with, the same day. No hardware, no card, no IT project.