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The composable MES. One launchpad for every step on your shop floor.
Forget the 18-month MES rollout that fits no one. Factorise gives you a modular, operator-first MES built on Mendix. Start with one component, prove value in weeks, add the next when you are ready. Same data model, same launchpad, no integration project.
Composable components, all built on the same data model
Launchpad for every operator and every step in production
From fit-gap to first live results, not 18-month projects
Why MES matters, and why most projects fail.
A Manufacturing Execution System runs your shop floor. It takes the production plan from your ERP, breaks it into work orders for operators, captures everything that happens on the line, and feeds the result back. Done well, it removes paper from the floor, gives every operator a clear next step, and gives management a live view of what is actually happening.
But most MES projects fail in one of two ways. Either the system is too rigid, built around a generic template that does not fit your process, requiring 18 months of customisation before it goes live. Or it is too custom, a from-scratch build that takes years and costs millions, and still ends up unused because operators will not adopt it.
Factorise is built differently. Composable from day one, operator-first by design, and live on the floor in weeks. You start with the component that hurts the most, prove value, and add the next. The system grows with you without breaking what is already there.
How factorise solves it.
Six components.
MES
Paperless Production Orders
A rich BOP and BOM execution engine, running stand-alone or fed from your ERP and PLM. Operators execute step by step on a tablet or workstation, with BOM, drawings, quality checks and customer requirements at hand. Full traceability of materials, tasks, time and produced products.
Performance & OEE
Real-time, multi-device performance views. Flexible OEE formulas. Operator annotations on production losses. Cascading tier views for ISA88 and ISA95. Configurable cockpits per role and workstation.
Issue & Loss Management
One central environment for every disruption: production losses, quality issues, machine breakdowns, safety events. Streamlined Issue to Action workflows. AI assist for the next best step. Easy capture via QR or panels. Escalate to CAPA action plans when needed. ouble bookkeeping.
Quality
Digital QA checklists and inspections built into the order flow. Tier KPI boards for shift communication. Root cause analysis tools like Ishikawa. Gemba walk app for tablet. Quality stops being a separate system and becomes part of the work.
Material Management
Scan and register materials for live, accurate inventory. Step-by-step digital weighing instructions integrated with precision scales. Track every material and product movement for compliance and recall. Monitor intermediate stock in real time.
Labor Management
Operator-friendly time and activity registration. Skill matrix per group or individual. Manage skills and training levels. Track availability and attendance. Publish cross-department notifications.
A real engine, not a thin UI.
Some MES tools are just a UI layer on top of your ERP. Others force you to put everything into their own monolithic data model. Factorise does neither.
At the core sits a rich Bill of Process and Bill of Materials execution engine. Define a process once, with sequential or parallel tasks, materials, resources, skill requirements and digital work instructions. Version it, publish it, execute it. The engine handles routing, traceability and confirmations end to end.
It runs stand-alone for customers without a mature ERP or PLM. It runs alongside SAP, Microsoft Dynamics or any other ERP through native connectors. And it integrates with Teamcenter and other PLM systems when the BOP and BOM live there. Your operators always work from one screen, regardless of where the master data sits.
The launchpad.
At the centre of it all is one screen: the MES Launchpad. Operators see exactly what they need for their shift, no more, no less. Orders, machines, checklists, issues, time logging, all one tap away. Every component plugs into this same launchpad, so adding Quality next quarter does not mean training operators on a new tool. It means one new tile.
Why this approach works.
Most MES vendors sell you a monolithic system you commit to all at once. Factorise lets you start where it hurts most, prove value in weeks, and add the next componentwhen the operators are ready. Because every component runs on the same data model and the same launchpad, every addition compounds rather than complicates.
Built on Mendix, deployed under your own licence, in your own environment. The MES grows with your operation, not against it.
Want to see what a composable MES looks like in your factory?
The results we have seen so far can be measured in the amount of spreadsheets we are not using anymore.