MES software for manufacturing SMEs.
DigiFactor is Snaption's Swiss-made platform for running the shop floor. It covers the functions of a manufacturing execution system (MES), on one data model shared with your machines and your ERP, with AI agents that answer questions about production and maintenance.
What a MES does, and how DigiFactor does it.
Know what happened on the shop floor
Machine states, production activities and OEE are recorded as they happen, per machine and per order. What the machines detect is combined with what operators declare, so the numbers can be trusted.
Plan and schedule production
Released orders become a schedule on a planning Gantt, with staff rosters and an early view of the orders at risk of being late.
Keep quality and maintenance in the same place
Test templates, golden-batch comparison, work orders and preventive maintenance use the same machines, orders and history as production. Nothing is copied into a separate database.
Connect machines and the ERP
An edge gateway in the plant reads machines over OPC UA, Modbus, Siemens S7, MQTT and EtherCAT. Orders and activities come from the ERP. Both are joined in one site model built on the ISA-95 standard.
Ask instead of searching
The Pacer answers questions about production and planning, The Fixer about faults and maintenance. Every answer cites the page or document it comes from, and people make the decisions.
The modules behind it
Every module reads the same ISA-95 site model, so a plant can start with one and add the others later.
Production monitoring
Machine states, activities and OEE as they happen
Production planning
Orders turned into a plan people can follow
Quality management
Test templates, campaigns and golden batch comparison
Maintenance management
Events, work orders and preventive plans in one place
Smart HMIs
Operator terminals at the machine
Frequently asked questions
What is a MES?
A manufacturing execution system (MES) is the software that manages and records production on the shop floor: what each machine is doing, which order is running, how much was produced and at what quality. In the ISA-95 standard it sits between the machines and the ERP.
Is DigiFactor a MES?
DigiFactor covers the functions manufacturing SMEs look for in a MES: production monitoring with OEE, planning and scheduling, quality management, maintenance management and operator terminals. It is built as an industrial IoT platform, so all of these modules share one data model, and AI agents work on top of them.
What is the difference between a MES and an ERP?
The ERP manages orders, purchasing, stock and accounting. It does not know what a machine is doing at this moment. A MES works at the pace of the shop floor and records what actually happens. DigiFactor connects to the ERP and does not replace it.
What is the difference between a MES and an IIoT platform?
An IIoT platform collects and organises data from machines and sensors. A MES uses production data to manage orders, activities, quality and maintenance. DigiFactor does both: the data integration layer comes first, and the MES modules run on it.
Which machines and systems can it connect to?
Machines are connected through an edge gateway using OPC UA, Modbus, Siemens S7, MQTT or EtherCAT, and through Node-RED. Where a machine cannot supply data, operators declare production on Smart HMI terminals at the machine. Business data comes from the ERP connection.
Does it run in the cloud or on-premise?
Both are possible. DigiFactor runs in the cloud or on your own servers. In either case an edge gateway in the plant connects the machines. The platform can be used from a PC, a tablet or a smartphone.
Who develops DigiFactor?
DigiFactor is developed by Snaption Sagl, a Swiss company based in Lugano, Ticino. It carries the Swiss Made Software label. You can book a demo with Snaption's engineers from this site.
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