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MES CAT 7.0: More productivity in SAP is not possible

A MES system is essential for the digitalization of your production management. It is the heart, the main line, the decisive factor for the efficiency and sustainability of your production processes. The latest release 7.0 of T.CON's successful MES CAT application not only marks the dawn of the cloud-native age, but also puts the focus more on the worker thanks to the latest UI and AI features.

Plattling, June 27, 2024

The success story of MES CAT is almost as old as that of T.CON. For over 20 years, the MES system has literally stood for exactly that: manufacturing excellence. The digitalization of manufacturing processes is becoming an increasingly relevant factor year after year. Whether just-in-time processes, labor shortages or, increasingly relevant, the sustainability factor. The arguments for efficient shop floor management are piling up. However, the reality of many medium-sized companies is often different and much more analogous. To summarize, the key capabilities of an MES system can be reduced to three characteristics:

  1. Best match: optimal integration into your SAP core systems and ideally also into the extended tool landscape
  2. User-friendly design increases user satisfaction and ultimately the added value for the company.
  3. Scalability and modularity in terms of corporate development

T.CON has been the expert for SAP processes close to the shop floor for 25 years. MES CAT is part of our DNA, so to speak. See for yourself and secure your production advantage.
 

The new evolutionary stage for manufacturing excellence

As all T.CON products are 100% SAP-native by design, we were able to focus on two key points in the development of MES CAT 7.0. Almost all of the new features relate to user-friendliness and the modular and connective software architecture. The result: a completely API-based, modular state-of-the-art architecture that strengthens your IT resilience and makes the MES an open and interoperable platform. What remains is a solution that is perfectly integrated into the SAP ecosystem for managing, monitoring and controlling production in real time. MES CAT ensures transparency and automation on the shop floor and is perfectly tailored to the needs of length- and area-oriented production.

Technical excellenceFocus on the worker
  • Hybrid-friendly design: Cloud and on-premise applications in parallel are sometimes unavoidable. Our API-based design gives you the freedom to choose
  • Supportive UI concept for more seamless interaction between humans, systems and machines
  • Scalable modular principle respects structures that you can afford - whether for technical, human or economic reasons
  • Push news instead of searching for data: thanks to seamless machine connection, automatic and event-controlled alert function for the worker
  • Well-equipped for the future:
    the core functions are already
    in the BTP Cloud
  • Functions and system language are tailored to the needs of the MILL industry
  • 100% SAP-ERP-integrated
    MES application
  • New UI5 design for more intuitive operation
  • It grows when and how you want:
    Cloud migration possible at any
    time and new applications easily connected via API
 
  • Ongoing further development of MES CAT in collaboration with our customers
 
  • Full compatibility with older releases
    and even third-party store floor solutions
 


Modularity in the interests of the customer

MES CAT is already structured in four modules. Decide for yourself which features you also require in addition to CORE. Of course, we are also at your side with consulting and solution architects when it comes to detailed technical questions. We never leave you alone with your decisions, but approach the challenges in partnership and with passion.
 

MES CAT components

Core

framework program, planning, warehouse, production and HU cockpits. Available on-premise or for cloud operation.
Connectvarious integration modules and functions
Reportingevaluations at shop floor and enterprise level. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) reports, 360-degree analysis of production orders, evaluation of quantities, rejects, errors, energy and much more.
QualityAutomated factory self-inspection and defect recording as well as QM laboratory tests

 

Extended modularity for your entire shop floor processes

The benefits of digitalization do not stop at the MES system. The more seamlessly adjacent store floor processes that rely on MES data are synchronized, the more efficiently and sustainably your production can run. In the MES SUITE, T.CON therefore offers five additional modular components that optimally complement MES CAT. Fully tailored to the needs of the people on your shop floor.

TRIM SUITE

Waste and set-up time optimization especially for length and area-oriented production

MOBILE MAINTENANCE

Digital maintenance management

WORKFORCE MANAGEMENTHCM and SuccessFactors-integrated personnel planning for the shop floor manager
ENTERPRISE LOGBOOK

Digital logging and shift handover

SMART IoTAI analysis of MES, SAP, sensor and machine data

 

Sustainability as an economic factor

Environmental Social Governance (ESG), is no longer just a moral guideline. The EU CSR Directive will make ESG reporting mandatory for many companies from 2025 at the latest. End-to-end, seamless data collection of your production's carbon footprint cannot be achieved without specialized software. MES CAT already offers you an architecture that provides data structures for recording measurement points and is therefore the essential basis for your sustainability reporting.

What's more, thanks to MES CAT you can control your production on the basis of sustainability criteria.

 

Secure your lead in production. Thanks to digitalized processes with MES CAT 7.0 and the entire MES SUITE.

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Ernesto Flores, Headquarters Plattling

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