Our Products
manuFACT is a fully-featured suite of MES products which makes production lines more efficient and resolves issues.
All components are designed with multilingual capabilities. So, if you have one plant in the United States, one plant in France and another plant in Brazil, each component can instantly be offered in the native language of the line associates working at that plant.
Components can be purchased separately or in clusters depending on your specific needs.
Line Event Data System
Automatically Capture, Track and Resolve Production Issues.
Line Event Data System (LEDS), a cornerstone of Fortech’s Manufacturing Execution System, plays a pivotal role in embedding quality and efficiency throughout the manufacturing workflow with proactive enforcement. As a vital component of Fortech’s manuFACT suite, LEDS consolidates live production data while integrating with equipment, controllers, and enterprise applications. This integration fosters unparalleled visibility, precise control, and optimized production processes across the entire enterprise. Accessible at your fingertips, LEDS empowers users with fourteen detailed, real-time reports, ensuring access to comprehensive insights with ease.
Downtime Viewer
Make Fact-based Decisions Based on Real-time Visibility.
Fortech’s manuFACT Downtime Viewer (DTV) and video solution is a cutting-edge, web-based system designed to swiftly pinpoint the reasons behind unplanned equipment downtime. Developed in-house and seamlessly integrated with advanced camera and recording technology, DTV delivers rapid and precise root cause analysis. This versatile system connects seamlessly across multiple plants and sites, consolidating live production data while interfacing with equipment, controllers, and enterprise-level applications. The outcome is enhanced visibility, robust control, and streamlined optimization of production processes across your entire enterprise landscape.
Please note that Fortech’s Downtime Viewer will be coupled with Fortech’s OEE reporting system to provide a low-cost alternative in determining Overall Equipment Effectiveness.
Quality Data System
Perform New Quality Tests on Finished Products for Improvements.
The manuFACT Quality Data System (QDS) is a robust tool tailored for capturing data from intermediate and finished product samples. It operates on predefined schedules (such as minutes of uptime or scheduled run time) or triggers (like product or shift changes). The Quality Test Overview web application screen offers a concise summary of past quality tests, empowering users to initiate new tests or modify existing ones directly from this interface.
Data collection and delivery has been designed and evolved over time based on user feedback to reduce the demand on operator’s and management’s time by minimizing touches and making the data immediately available. The data collected helps improve the efficiency of making quality products by providing real-time data to verify release criteria and quickly adjust to defects.
Clean, Inspect and Lubricate
Plan Maintenance, Lower Costs and Improve Uptime.
The manuFACT Clean, Inspect, Lube (CIL) module is an essential preventive maintenance solution aimed at minimizing equipment downtime during regular operations. By ensuring smooth and efficient functioning of shop floor machinery, CIL offers intuitive maintenance guides and flexible scheduling features. Proper maintenance prevents equipment breakdowns and interruptions that can disrupt production. Moreover, the impact of poorly maintained assets extends beyond downtime. It can affect product quality, causing spoilage, rejects, and waste, as well as impacting delivery commitments, team morale, and increasing the strain on maintenance resources. The CIL module effectively minimizes these losses, enhancing operational efficiency and sustaining optimal production conditions.
Video Event Capture
Eliminate Manual Tracking and Easily Collect Data.
Fortech introduces Video Event Capture (VEC), an innovative vision technology that revolutionizes manufacturing event capture. Powered by a proprietary, patented video analysis algorithm, VEC detects and records critical events in real-time directly from video footage, eliminating the need for interaction with your controls layer.
This breakthrough technology enables seamless data collection and efficiency improvements in manufacturing plants without relying on or interacting with traditional control systems. By bypassing the need for costly Programmable Logic Controllers, VEC offers a cost-effective solution that saves effort, reduces expenses, and mitigates risks associated with equipment downtime.
Production Execution System
Improve Production Planning and Scheduling in Real-Time.
The manuFACT Production Execution System (PES) module offers comprehensive process order schedule management and execution capabilities for manufacturing plants. It plays a pivotal role in enhancing production planning and scheduling, thereby facilitating the achievement of business objectives.
This tool seamlessly integrates with your ERP system to automatically download and present production schedules in a user-friendly format. Real-time updates of production counts enable continuous tracking of current status, both onsite and remotely. Additionally, PES provides versatile display options that can be tailored to meet the specific needs of individual users, ensuring optimal usability and efficiency in operations.
Centerline
Collect, Track and Analyze Product Settings for Line Setup.
manuFACT Centerline is a pivotal tool for maintaining manufacturing process stability and ensuring operations stay within optimal operating parameters. This web-based application gathers equipment settings from the production line automatically or manually during runs. These settings enable adherence to specific product targets, limits, and statistical fluctuation rules.
As businesses adapt to agile product changeovers to meet consumer demands, the ability to track and analyze these transitions becomes crucial. manuFACT Centerline aids operators by providing accurate settings for each product and continuously monitors these settings throughout production cycles. Integrated reporting features facilitate detailed offline analysis, evaluating accuracy and compliance against predefined limits. This comprehensive approach enhances operational precision and supports continuous improvement initiatives in manufacturing processes.
Statistical Process Control
Monitor and Control Performance While Verifying Results.
The manuFACT Statistical Process Control (SPC) module serves as a critical tool for monitoring operational performance and ensuring product quality by identifying root causes, addressing issues, and confirming outcomes. It integrates sample data from historians, relational databases, or manual sources with local targets and specifications. Visual representations such as process control charts and statistical summaries provide clear insights to operators and decision-makers.
Adaptable to both batch and continuous processes, SPC allows for real-time data capture and analysis or summarizes data post-run for release criteria validation. It supports continuous improvement initiatives by facilitating informed decision-making, process analysis, waste reduction, and quality control enhancements.
manuFACT Activity Scheduler
Fully Automate Task Notification and Tracking Module.
The manuFACT Activity Scheduler is a versatile and essential component that effectively manages and directs plant floor resources. It provides real-time notifications to operators for a wide range of activities, spanning from production line operations to maintenance checks.
Integrated seamlessly with other manuFACT modules like Clean, Inspect, Lube, Centerline, Quality Data Systems, and Line Event Data System, the Activity Scheduler ensures timely execution of tasks and activities. Users receive notifications aligned with user-defined schedules, which can be triggered by events within the manuFACT system such as brand changes or shift transitions.
Weights and Torques
Improve Compliance and Quality on Fill Rates and Product Weights.
Electronic Daily Directional Setting
Easily Group KPI Reports and Optimize Daily Direction Setting.
manuFACT Electronic Daily Direction Setting (EDDS) is an advanced web-based solution tailored for manufacturing plants, streamlining and enhancing Daily Direction Settings meetings typically conducted at shift transitions. This innovative tool delivers actionable reports, crucial information, and intuitive tools that empower management and shift teams to make informed decisions aligned with organizational objectives.
Replacing traditional paper or Excel-based methods, EDDS offers a user-friendly online platform that accurately aggregates KPIs from current data. This capability enables teams to efficiently plan for upcoming shifts, monitor progress, and adjust strategies in accordance with production schedules and plant goals. By facilitating data-driven decision-making, EDDS optimizes operational efficiency and promotes proactive management practices within the manufacturing environment.
The Future is Now!
We have decades of experience in creating Manufacturing Execution Systems and are committed to enhancing your manufacturing efficiency. Fortech specializes in delivering cost-effective software solutions across mobile, web, desktop, intranet, and database platforms. Our expertise includes system integration services for custom projects, application development, business process management, and validation. Partner with us for immediate improvements and enhancements to optimize your manufacturing operations.
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