MES system Implementation

The important size the company is getting allows the competition in the complex automotive industry, being able to become a global solutions supplier.

A suitable corporative information system implies an important competitive advantage to:

• Offer the best conditions of quality, service and price to the final client
• Carry on an internal bench marketing that allows to spread the best practices among all the group’s plants.

Needs

• The rapid growth integrates different companies, with different cultures and management systems
• The important size the company is getting implies the need of particular and consolidated information that allows to manage with homogeneous indicators for the whole group
• As well as a consolidated and corporative system, every single plant will need a daily plant management tool

Objectives

• At the end of 2001 the SISTEPLANT’s M.E.S implementation starts
• The objective is to implement 20 group plants in a three and a half years delay
• The system will need to function integrated to the SAP corporative ERP
• The project team should be able to work in an international environment, realising implementations in Spain, Portugal, France, UK, Poland and Hungary

Implementation

• The first group plant implementation starts in January 2002 and for June 2005 over than 20 plants are working
• The specific casuistic of each plant is adapted to the system, obtaining an ample use in every single plant and a high degree of acceptation from the users
• The system works on different manufacturing models, on different hardware environments and in 6 different languages

Results

• Every single plant uses CAPTOR as a plant management tool, feeding its decision environment with objective information in real time
• Company has a consolidated information for managament, having at its disposal homogeneous information by plant, by division and by corporation level
• The systems feeds the ERP with specific information, having at its disposal recent information without expensive administrative processes