EZ-MES | Assets and Equipment Management

Equipment Management

The Manufacturing Execution System EZ-MES comes with extensive support for Equipment Management, Scheduled Preventive Maintenance and Unscheduled Maintenance. Keep track of equipment history, forward and backward traceability to part, lots and runs. Have direct access to equipment documentation and maintenance documentation. Full barcode support to label equipment and enter data.

Equipment Management Features

The blocks below show the EZ-MES features with respect to Equipment and Asset Management.

Batch flows for Equipment

Specific batch flows can be defined for equipment. Using the Batch Equipment Flows, multiple travelers can be processed by just processing a single equipment traveler. E.g. for ovens with specific temperature cycles.

Custom flow for new Equipment

For each type of equipment, a procedure consisting of specific actions can be defined that has to be performed before the new equipment can be used in production.

Equipment Categories

Different types of equipment can be grouped into categories. Categories also make it easier to browse for and to find equipment.

Equipment Change Over

Equipment can be set up to accept only certain parts, the setup flow can change the the types of parts the equipment can accept. So it can be configured that if an equipment is setup for part A, it will not be able to process part type B, and vice versa.

Equipment Data Collection

Equipment data can be collected with a single entry. Each product or part that is going through that piece of equipment will have a record of that equipment entry. The user entries are highly customizable.

Equipment History

A full account of any moment after the equipment was created about the equipment state, the maintenance, etc.

Equipment Management

Extensive Equipment Management with Equipment Definitions, Equipment Tracking, Preventive Maintenance, Unscheduled Maintenance, Equipment States, Equipment Performance.

Equipment Manuals

Electronic Equipment Manuals can be stored on the equipment definition and are directly accessible during the operation where the equipment is used.

Equipment States

The state of the equipment can change in a number of ways: Manual, Unscheduled and Scheduled maintenance, and when the equipment is used by production operations.

Hierarchical Equipment Definition

A Bill of Material can be defined for equipment. Creating parent child relationships between the different parts of equipment.

List of Equipment

The equipment list shows all equipment instances with their, processing state, equipment state, current operation, etc.

List of Parts per Equipment

Each equipment instance keeps a list of all the parts that were processed by that piece of equipment, while each part keeps a reference to the equipment that was used.

List of Runs per Equipment

Beside a list of parts that went through the equipment each piece of equipment will have a log of all the runs. This is useful when a single run can have many parts.

Material Consumption

During operations, for production or for maintenance, equipment can consume other materials.

'OR' operation for product rules

Equipment can be tied to operations. Per operation one or multiple equipment types can be defined. E.g. in some case a fine drill can do what a course drill can do, but not the other way around.

Product specs for equipment settings

On each product type limits can be defined for the equipment operations. This way it is possible to define a different temperature specs for different products.

Rule checking for products

Each equipment type can be limited to a number of products that are allowed to be processed by that piece of equipment. It will not be possible for the operator to select the wrong type of equipment.

Setup Flows

Setup flows for equipment can be defined. The flow can consist of multiple operations, recording equipment data, and changing the state of the equipment.

Specs for process parameters

The equipment can block the traveler moving to the next spec when entered parameters are out of spec. The process specs are defined by the operation.

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