CAPABILITIES
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Error Proofing
Operator Certification
Component Validation
Pick-To-Light
Traceability
Batch Build / Kanban
Poka-Yoke
Audit
Lean Manufacturing
Standardized Work
Label Printing
Standardized Reports
Large Library of Commands
Scanning
Interfaces for Standard Devices

Adding Manufacturing Execution Systems to
your operations just got easier.

ProductionWare® Express is based on our flagship ProductionWare® product that has helped manufacturers ship quality product, every day, for decades. Designed to take advantage of the core functionality required in all of our ProductionWare® systems, this streamlined edition decreases the complexity and customization while still delivering the same exacting standards you expect.

Using an off-the-shelf approach with ProductionWare® Express, we have simplified the process of purchasing, implementing, administering and maintaining a reduced footprint assembly system. A ProductionWare® Express system includes almost everything you will need to implement up to a 5 station system. This includes the operating system, station hardware, and ProductionWare® Express Software.

Additional Modules can expand the possibilities of your ProductionWare® Express system. Should you need to grow your operations even further, we offer a migration path to our flagship product – ProductionWare®. In addition, you will have access to process configuration tools that will empower your team to administer the ProductionWare® Express system, which reduces your Total Life Cycle investment.

You need a partner that will deliver results in your plants with contemporary solutions propelling you forward, not holding you back. A partner with broad, global experience and a local touch, who can drive reliability and consistency in your operations, large or small, and far or near.

Digitize to Optimize Manufacturing

  • Orders: Drive all work activities off of your production orders, electronically integrated to seamlessly ensure the right work is done on every operation for every order, every time.
  • Production Scheduling: Get the responsiveness to build what you want, in lots, using Batch Build scheduler.
  • Production Management: Define what work to do, where to do it, and what to do if something goes wrong.
  • Materials Management: Drive unit-specific work content using BOM material assignments at each respective station, inclusive of proper selection and assembly of components and parts.

  • Manufacturing: Electronically integrate your Manufacturing operations into the digital thread of your production orders, capturing quality, production and traceability information every step of the way.
  • Traceability: Track all materials and value-add production operations for every product on every order. Part Traceability is essential to protect your company against liability. ProductionWare® Express supports bar code labeling for traceability.
  • Quality Inspection: Perform layered in-line Inspections and Blind Audits in any station or perform a complete audit at a designated QC station.
  • Defect Management: From each station an operator can register defects and disposition them as scrap. These are recordable events.

  • Assembly: Take complete control of your Assembly operations, managing complexity, executing the right work and consistently delivering high quality and compliant products.
  • Manufacturing Execution: Manage all the intricacies in Manufacturing required to deliver quality products for every order. Implement Standardized Work to improve process consistency, speed and repeatability.
  • Error-Proofing: Close the loop on quality to ensure proper execution of every step of operation. Provide tools allowing line workers to correct errors in-station before they become defects using Quality at Source strategy.
  • Manufacturing Intelligence: Use standard reports to learn from your operations with knowledge derived from your actual system.
  • Remote I/O support: using the included Modbus Driver, enable Pick-to-Light, Function Test and endless machine interfaces.

  • Add Capability: Continue to expand the capabilities of your MES by adding optional functionality modules.
  • KEPServerEX: Allows users to establish, manage, monitor, and control a wide range of automation devices.
  • Shipping Systems: Flexibly move products to warehouses or directly to customers in bulk or in sequence, on a schedule or Just-In-Time.
  • Lineside Replenishment: Automate calls for, and accuracy of, components restocking directly from the work cells as needed in real time.
  • Andon with downtime reports: Maintain and improve
    operational efficiency, identify problems, and sustain high levels of productivity.
  • ERP Integration: Enhance materials management functions, integrating them with plant floor operations that touch inventory using Orders and BOM downloads, lineside material consumption and backflush.

Hardware

HP Elite Mini PC: Compact form factor combined with impressive performance capabilities, makes a perfect platform to run ProductionWare® Express. Equipped with up to a 13th Gen Intel 24-Core processor, offering robust performance for multitasking and intensive applications. The machine supports ample memory and speedy storage solutions, ensuring quick data access and smooth operation. It maintains the same high standards of quality and reliability expected from HP.

  • Zebra Scanners: The Zebra Series of scanners provide best-in-class first time, every time, scanning with point and shoot simplicity. The Zebra Series is built to withstand everyday drops and tumbles, ensuring long-term durability in various work environments.
  • Your workers get first-time every time capture of the many types of small and high-density barcodes printed on the components in the products you make. And since these scanners also capture standard barcodes in virtually any condition, you get a real value – unstoppable performance.

Monitors: The Elo widescreen LED touchscreen monitor delivers a seam-less zero-bezel, edge-to edge glass design with Elo’s industry leading TouchPro® PCAP technology. The sleek, low profile, commercial grade touchscreen features tablet-like experience and an anti-glare surface built to withstand the rigors of continuous use. Available in 20, 22, and 24 inch wide aspect ratio displays to fit your needs.

Add-On Modules can enhance your systems capabilities.

Torque Monitoring: Gain complete control and capture data of all torque routines.

Bar Code Printers: allow for inventory management, asset tracking, WIP tracking, and quality control.

Support multi-vendor modular and block I/O platforms inside and outside the control cabinet as required.

KEPServerEX allows users to connect, manage, monitor, and control diverse automation devices and software applications using an OPC interface to PLCs.

Support

24×7 Help Desk Support: Included with ProductionWare® Express provides access to our Help Desk for emergency support.

Help Desk is available 24 hours a day for Emergency Phone Support.

The Help Desk is your first line of defense to keep your system up and running and troubleshoot system outages.

Our Help Desk deploys the latest real-time monitoring software resulting in fewer issues and faster resolutions. We monitor the health of the system and databases 24 hours a day.

Technicians are also available Monday -Friday, 8am-5pm, to provide quick and easy answers to frequently asked questions regarding the ProductionWare® suite of products.

Hardware Support: We partner with top rated manufacturers to provide robust hardware tailored to meet the demands of the manufacturing industry. All hardware include lifetime warranties.

  • Hardware Defects and Failures: This includes issues arising from defective components or manufacturing flaws.
  • System Malfunctions: Coverage for malfunctions that prevent the hardware from operating as intended.
  • Parts and Labor: The cost of labor for repairs are included.

Spend more time with your operations, and not your technology. Knowing that your investment is protected against unexpected failures or manufacturing defects allows you to use your hardware without constant worry about potential issues or the financial burden of repair.

Software Membership: No need to purchase the newest versions of ProductionWare® Express. We got that covered for you.

Matrix is dedicated to providing the best MES software and services in the industry. We are constantly updating and enhancing the ProductionWare®  software to better serve our customers’ technology needs. Through the ProductionWare® Express program, you will receive the latest software enhancements and upgrades each time a new software version is released. Our program will allow you to take advantage of the improvements built into new software product releases.

Included with Software Membership is access to the Matrix Learning Center. The MLC is an on-line training service designed to provide your management, staff or corporate personnel with anytime, anywhere access to training tools that maximize the benefits of your
ProductionWare® Solution.

Hardware Refresh: In today’s fast-paced world, where technology evolves at lightning speed, outdated hardware will now become a thing of the past.

Under the ProductionWare® Express program, we will proactively replace your hardware every 5 years. This allows for:

  • Advanced Features and Technology: New equipment incorporates the latest technological advancements, offering improved functionality, efficiency, and performance compared to older models.
  • Increased Reliability and Less Maintenance: Newer hardware is less likely to require repairs and can run more smoothly, reducing downtime.
  • Better User Experience: New equipment offers a better user experience, with smoother operation, faster processing speeds, and enhanced usability.