Lantek MES (Manufacturing Execution System) is the family of Lantek software designed for manufacturers and fabricators that includes four main products: Lantek MES Manager that directs the execution of all manufacturing processes in a facility, Lantek MES Wos that provides the capabilities for data collection, Lantek Workshop Capture that provides data input capabilities and Lantek MES Inventory that provides a real-time view of the stock in a company’s warehouse or on their shop floor.
Overall, Lantek’s MES offering was developed to help companies manage and optimize their manufacturing processes and gain real-time control of everything happening on their shop floors. The suite is fully integrated with 2-D and 3-D CAD/CAM modules and offers complete traceability and process optimization.
Lantek MES Advantages
- Monitoring capabilities allow users to check, in real time, the status of a product or part in the manufacturing process or warehouse. Users can also monitor and optimize resources, such as employees, machines and sub-contracting centers.
- With time and cost optimization features, users can optimize the launch of orders and generate CAD/CAM jobs.
- Accounting for different types of manufacturing requirements, users can import from various management solutions and from a variety of file types, such as DWG and DXF.
- Optimizes individual nests and production processes by connecting with third-party solutions for logs times and real material consumption. Sheet metal skeletons and the associated cut parts are also managed and inventoried.
- Streamlines cost analysis projects by capturing current industry rates online and by performing comparisons between true and estimated costs at the end of a job.
- Offers features that allow adaptability with mobile devices, basic bar code readers and Windows-based operating systems.
- Can be used to integrate the entirety of a company’s operations within a single system.
