Epicor Mattec (Advanced MES)

Designed For Your Industry

Epicor Mattec (Advanced MES) was designed with your industry in mind. With its origin in rubber, plastics, automotive, and the metals industry, Epicor Mattec (Advanced MES) has more than 20 years of domain and industry best practices built in, yet it offers you the agility to meet changing demands and requirements. Epicor Mattec is an out-of-the-box configurable MES solution that enables rapid implementation while still being fully extensible to meet the most demanding requirements.

Deploy Your Way

Epicor Mattec (Advanced MES) isn’t just a platform — it’s a purpose-built point solution, meaning you won’t need extensive consulting and expensive customizations to get a quick return on your investment. Out-of-the-box tools for every level of the organization make it easy to see almost immediate business results, and Epicor makes it simple to connect to your data — no matter how timeworn or modern. Epicor Mattec (Advanced MES) also uses open connectivity protocol (OPC), programmable logic controllers (PLC), machine interface units (MIU), and personal computer (PC) interfaces.

Usability

Epicor Mattec (Advanced MES) collects production data automatically — no more manual data collection to worry about. Operators on the shop floor use touch screen technology to add depth and dimension to the automatic production data, so you get a clear picture of the what, why, and when of downtime, cycle time, quality, and scrap. The system also has real-time alerts, notifications, and other communications, so the people who need to know are in the know when it matters most, letting them take immediate action to correct a problem or improve performance. Whether you’re making on-the-fly production schedule changes, setting up daily operations meetings, or managing dashboards and reports, Epicor Mattec (Advanced MES) is easy to use and ideal for one-click drill-down insight and reporting. Most importantly, it’s system-agnostic, so you can link it with your enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to connect your top floor to your shop floor.

Real-Time Insight for Better Production and Business Performance

Your business isn’t like anyone else’s, and neither is ours. Is better productivity your goal? You need accurate data and fast information. If you’ve set your sights on operational excellence, you need it even faster. Either way, real-time automated production and process data direct from your machines is the gold standard in performance improvement, and we exceed that standard with analysis, reporting, and planning to help you achieve your goals. Epicor is there when you’re doing strategic planning and turning strategies into tactics for improvement, because getting better is easy when the facts are clear. Ready to retire your manual data collection and intervention steps? With Mattec (Advanced MES), you get accurate data instantly — not minutes, hours, or shifts later. You and the entire operations and production teams can work collaboratively to reduce waste, inventory, and downtime; optimize equipment and capital and worker resources; and drive performance gains with Epicor.

Office, Mobile, Global

Take the power of Mattec MES with you on a web-enabled mobile device or tablet with browser-based dashboards, information, and analysis. Plus, it doesn’t matter if you have a single operation or a distributed network of plants internationally, Mattec is currently available in more than 10 languages and suitable for language customization.

Epicor Mattec (Advanced MES) Value for Your Business

Improve cycle times, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and plant productivity

• Eliminate manual data collection
• Improve scheduling agility with real-time insight into machine performance
• Monitor every cycle and every machine ²⁴⁄₇, giving you near-instantaneous visibility into production and quality problems
• Reduce scrap and rework with automatic part qualification and part rejection
• Capture part and machine process data for traceability purposes
• Maximize production and reduce costs by automatically capturing statistical process control (SPC) and statistical quality control (SQC) results
• Monitor utility consumption and pinpoint energy savings opportunities at each machine
• Minimize downtime with faster response and resolution
• Maximize machine loading and minimize downtime to reduce costs and capital expenditure
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and programs
• Win more business with improved customer ratings and satisfaction
• Improve equipment reliability and boost longevity
• Pinpoint energy savings opportunities, reduce energy consumption and total power demand
• Examine tradeoffs between using existing equipment and capital investments
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and programs

Visibility, Reporting, and Analysis

From the top floor to the shop floor, it’s important to know how your business is performing at all times. That’s why Epicor built a powerful out-of-the-box reporting and analytics system and delivers it in easy-to-digest dials, graphs, and charts. Mattec scoreboards and displays empower front-line professionals to take action and make improvements instantly, without having to wait for days or weeks to find out how they’re doing, or if they face machine or tool problems. Whether it’s regarding maintenance, quality, or other operations, stakeholders have facts in-hand to support their recommendations, and management has what they need to understand tradeoffs from every angle. Epicor Mattec (Advanced MES) delivers a comprehensive picture of production.

• Consistent, automated OEE and other efficiency metrics
• Production metrics from machine to enterprise level X Downtime and scrap analysis
• Operator labor and productivity
• Performance versus schedule, labor forecast, tool conflict, job and part history

Real-Time Planning and Scheduling

Does your production schedule ever change on the fly? Shift supervisors probably wrestle with it every day, even when things are running smoothly. With the Epicor Mattec click-and-drag production schedule, you can change instantly based on new requirements or watch the schedule update and adjust automatically based on actual machine speeds, production counts, equipment status, conditions, or job specifications. Epicor makes it easy to plan by showing line availability based on machine/part/tool compatibility, and the system shows you optimal plans based on prior part performance. What-if analysis combined with built-in machine capacity planning and labor and material forecasting makes Mattec the first choice in MES. You can look to Epicor Mattec to do all your production planning and scheduling, or integrate it with any other MRP and/or ERP to enhance its powerful capabilities.

• Use visual drag-and-drop, real-time scheduling and planning for machines and tools
• Make automatic schedule adjustments
• Perform Kanban scheduling X Forecast labor and material requirements 
• Optimize machine capacity planning
• Identify and resolve tool conflicts
• See real-time view of actual production availability
• Complete usage-based maintenance planning

Monitoring, Data, and Communication

The shop floor is a real-time environment — so your MES should be too. Things happen and change instantly. Sometimes a machine is down just a few minutes more than you thought, or perhaps the scrap or part count is off — just a couple of pieces can mean the difference between a happy or frustrated customer. Real-time, automatic production monitoring and process monitoring with Epicor Mattec keeps your business on track and eliminates the ripple effect to customers and vendors. We’re there to help you reconnect the shop floor by constantly monitoring data directly from the machine and turning it into information for the shop and management. You’ll receive automatic notifications when and how you need them, and data to feed the rest of your Mattec system and your business, such as:

• Automated production monitoring for downtime and runtime
• Automated monitoring for process parametersAutomated alerts, messaging, and escalation
• Operator help calls with automatic routing and notifications 
• Real-time, automatic alerts for machine conditions, cycle and process variations, efficiency, scrap rates
• Plant floor viewer with real-time machine state and job monitoring

Production Optimization

More capacity, same assets — that’s what Epicor Mattec is there for. When you get more free capacity and jobs run on schedule, you consistently exceed customer expectations and earn more business. Knowing which changes have the greatest impact makes it easy for everyone to work toward the same goal, whether that goal is happier customers, more product, or better cost structure. We’re here with data and information to answer key questions about performance, so the tough decisions get a little easier.

• Manage machine loading and minimize downtime
• Manage family of parts and color changes
• View cost reporting for scrap and machine downtime
• Compare actual cycle times to standard and planning rates 
• Optimize assets, plants, and network
• Evaluate schedule conformance

Energy Management

Scheduling workload in a way that reduces the plant’s total power demand and takes advantage of rate variations can translate to significant savings — in terms of total energy consumed and the actual cost per kilowatt hour. Tackle power consumption and the cost of energy with Epicor Mattec and Energy Monitoring. We help you analyze load patterns, production requirements, and resource energy demands, giving you the power to reduce peak demand and capture energy savings. With software, you can quickly and easily capture and analyze energy performance indicators (EPIs) to reduce consumption and cut costs.

• Monitor and analyze energy consumption by machine, job, shift or product
• Receive real-time scorecards
• Understand maintenance and quality in context of energy consumption
• Evaluate idle vs.shutdown-restart tradeoffs

Quality Management

• Monitor every cycle and every machine, ²⁴⁄₇
• Automatically qualify or reject parts
• Track part and machine process data for traceability purposes
• Get statistical quality control (SQC) and statistical process control (SPC)
• Enable automated process monitoring and parameterviolation alarms
• View part weights and dimensions, machine process parameters and correlation analysis

Maintenance Management

Machine maintenance planning based on calendar can result in unnecessary maintenance being done, or worse — unexpected machine downtime as a result of late maintenance. Epicor Mattec (Advanced MES) provides real-time preventative maintenance for effectiveness.

Machine and tool preventive maintenance (PM)

• Cycle or run hour PM
• Automated alarms and notices for PM