MESTEC’s MES (Manufacturing Execution System) software drives and improves factory performance by focusing on your business pressures – people, time, cost and compliance. By eliminating spreadsheets, paper-based operations and manual data collection, we deliver improved performance driven by dynamic production planning, automated shop-floor data collection and real-time performance analytics. MESTEC is a cloud-based solution with rapid deployment and no up-front costs. This provides customers with immediate operational and financial value and is the foundation for your journey to a Smart Factory and Industry 4.0. Changes to shop-floor working practices can be implemented quickly to improve labour performance and achieve immediate cost savings. Examples include: Optimise Labour Utilisation § Provide immediate notification to supervisors of waiting time and production delay issues § Analyse and eliminate the sources of unaccounted and indirect time at each production step Improve Labour Performance § Apply the best working practices of your best operators to all other operators § Develop competitive culture by using dashboards to share high performing team results Reduce Quality Losses § Use real-time data to highlight new quality issues and prevent further wasted labour § Use data analytics to identify repeating quality issues and to fix the root cause