Promsort-Metiz (formerly NLMK-Metiz) (Data Center Automation: Data-Track Industrial Platform)

2021: MES NLMK-Metiz Automated Production Management System

The purpose of the implemented MES system is: management, dispatching and accounting of production operations, maximum automation processes, exclusion of the human factor in accounting, formalization of technological routes, ensuring traceability of the technology, construction of reports on quality, production, balance sheet reports.

The following MES functions of the system are implemented:

• obtaining regulatory reference information, process routes and process charts from the corporate PDM system;
• automation of interaction with ERP, APS systems, receipt of a portfolio of commercial or production orders, transfer of information on production facts, shipment, warehouse stocks to ERP or APS;
• in-house warehouse accounting, reception, inter-warehouse and in-warehouse movements, writing-off of materials for production, marking, packaging, formation of shipping batches, shipment of finished products;
• operational planning and rescheduling, dispatching, optimizing the load of work centers in a mode close to real time, monitoring the implementation of the production schedule;
• quality control operations and laboratory tests;
• Integration with weight controllers
• obtaining automatically generated downtime start and end times, entering the causes and culprits of downtime, calculating equipment load, generating reporting to analyze key production performance indicators, OEE.