FOR FACTORY OPERATIONS

See the whole floor at a glance,
build it right the first time

“Where does this order actually stand? I ask around from headquarters, and by the time the overseas plant reports back, it’s already yesterday’s news.”

Digiwin MES brings dispatch, production reporting, quality, and traceability into one shop floor — customers have proven a 28.5% shorter production cycle and 80% higher plant transparency. Your home plant and new southbound plants run on one shop-floor standard.

Request a Consultation
Digiwin MES Production Task Center main screen (demo data)
WHO IT'S FOR

The farther your plants spread, the harder the floor is to see

Work orders are running, people are guessing, supervisors are walking the floor — for southbound manufacturing, shop-floor management usually gets stuck on these three things.

01

Progress by asking around, data always a step behind

Work orders pile up on the line and supervisors waste time hunting them down on the floor; labor hours can only be estimated in advance and production reporting isn’t real-time, so the progress on the books never matches what’s actually happening on the floor.

02

Dispatch by gut feel, uneven capacity load

Dispatch relies on the shop veteran’s experience, and uneven equipment load leads to idle waiting; precision quality inspection sheets are copied out by hand, and the busier it gets, the more errors slip in.

03

Open a plant overseas, and the floor becomes a black box

Across time zones and languages, you piece together the overseas plant’s floor status from overseas calls and next-day reports; your home plant’s management standards never quite copy over to the new plant.

BUILT FOR ASEAN

Setting up a southbound plant: four questions shop-floor management must answer

Exporting your home plant’s management habits as-is isn’t enough — data, equipment, standards, and systems each have to hold up locally.

Real-time shop-floor data

Barcode scanning enables real-time production reporting, and the eKB electronic dashboard and war room lay progress, efficiency, and exceptions out in plain view — after electronics contract manufacturer Cal-Comp deployed it at its Philippine plant, shop-floor data became visible in real time and exceptions were handled the moment they arose.

Equipment connectivity, IT×OT

The AIoT equipment cloud connects to mainstream CNC/PLC controllers (brands such as Mitsubishi and FANUC), giving second-by-second visibility into equipment status and machining parameters — MES governs the process, “doing the right things,” while AIoT governs the equipment, “doing things right.” After Malaysian auto-parts customer Tenglong Automotive deployed it, the AIoT equipment cloud and a mobile interface gave real-time visibility into the shop floor with live work-order tracking.

Cross-border plant standardization

The interface switches by default among Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and English, and exception alerts are pushed across time zones via LINE, WeChat, and MAIL — your home plant’s shop-floor standards copy over as-is to new plants in Thailand and Vietnam; the tax incentives and compliance homework to do before setting up a plant are all laid out on the Thailand page.

Two-way integration with Digiwin ERP

Create work order → open production batch → issue materials to the work order → report production → FQC → line-side warehouse receipt → close work order — ERP and MES pass data back and forth throughout, so planning and the floor share one set of data and accounts no longer have to be reconciled against materials on two sides.

CORE MODULES

From dispatch to traceability, manage the whole shop floor in one place

Six module groups — traceability, visibility, people and equipment, materials and process methods, quality, and work-in-process — distilled into four core capabilities that reach every production line.

DISPATCH & EXECUTION

Dispatch scheduling and real-time production reporting

Built on three hubs — workshop configuration, dispatch scheduling, and production tasks — it lays out exactly who is on which machine working which order, with production data flowing back the moment it’s reported.

  • Dispatch scheduling — batch splitting and merging, parallel production, and one operator running multiple machines automatically level the capacity load
  • Scan-to-report — production reporting across scanners, tablets, and phones turns floor actions straight into data
  • Production alerts — urgent-material, equipment, work-order-hold, and tooling reminders proactively reach the right person when something goes wrong
Dispatch no longer rides on a veteran’s memory — capacity schedules itself.
VISIBILITY

Shop-floor visibility and the war room

From alert monitoring and the information monitoring center to the eKB electronic dashboard and the sFWR war room, managers at headquarters can see every production line in their overseas plants.

  • eKB electronic dashboard — a large line-side screen reveals progress and efficiency in real time, replacing paper daily reports
  • sFWR war room — metrics from across plants are presented in one place, so decisions don’t have to wait for the monthly meeting
  • Exception alerts — LINE, WeChat, MAIL, and on-screen notifications catch everything across time zones
Plant transparency up 80%, and exceptions no longer sit overnight.
QUALITY & TRACE

Quality control and traceability

SPC statistical process control, real-time Andon response, plus two-way serial-number and batch-number traceability turn quality from “reviewed after the fact” into “controlled during the process.”

  • SPC process control — process data is controlled in real time, with early warning of abnormal trends
  • Andon — a one-touch floor call brings instant response to quality and equipment exceptions
  • Batch-number tracing — trace back from a finished-goods batch number to raw materials, machines, and the operator who reported the work, giving customer complaints and audits solid evidence
One serial number lets every product account for its own history.
INDUSTRY PACKS

Industry-specific shop-floor control

Industry-specific controls for electronics assembly, plastic injection molding, fasteners, and more are built into the standard modules, so industry know-how doesn’t have to be custom-built from scratch.

  • Electronics assembly (SMT) — feeder-station lists, feeder and loading error-proofing, and station lockout when MSD exposure time is exceeded
  • Plastic injection molding — cavity, shared-mold, and recipe guidance mean process parameters are no longer passed on by word of mouth
  • Fasteners — unit-weight and carrier management, with counting by weighing
Industry controls are built in — up and running from day one.
Digiwin MES sFWR war room dashboard screen (demo data)
sFWR war room: production metrics from across plants, centrally visible (screen shows demo data)

Still waiting on next-day reports to learn your overseas plant’s production progress?Digiwin MES real-time production reporting — customers have proven data lag cut from three days to instant.

Request a Consultation
CASES ｜ MES

Southeast Asian customers deploying MES

Representative cases connecting shop-floor data with MES.

Eternal Prowess case study
Vietnam · Footwear (Rubber Soles; designated clear-rubber supplier to global sneaker brands)

Eternal Prowess

Digiwin Workflow ERPMESCarbon Accounting (OCM)

Workflow ERP plus MES machine-networked auto-feeding connects the entire footwear line.

  • Monthly compounding tonnage doubled
STC case study
Vietnam · Metals (Metal Stamping)

STC

Digiwin Workflow ERPMES

eMES systematizes scheduling, reporting and traceability across the metal-stamping floor.

  • Go-live in 4 weeks
  • Production efficiency up ~20%
  • Product yield above 95%
TBL Industrial Supply case study
Malaysia · Metal Tooling & Dies

TBL Industrial Supply

Digiwin Workflow ERPMESAIoT Connectivity

Workflow ERP plus MES and AIoT make tooling-floor delivery and utilization visible in real time.

  • Rapid go-live within 2 months
  • Shop-floor lookups 2–3 hrs → real time
TLGF case study
Malaysia · Auto Parts (Heat-Exchange Piping)

TLGF

Digiwin Workflow ERPMESAIoT Connectivity

Workflow ERP plus MES and AIoT deliver batch-level FIFO and workshop transparency in one move.

  • Inventory accuracy raised above 90%
Cal-Comp case study
Philippines · Electronics

Cal-Comp

MES

MES strengthens shop-floor visibility and process control for electronics contract manufacturing.

FAQ

What Taiwanese businesses ask most

We already have ERP — why do we still need MES, and how do the two divide the work?

ERP governs “planning and the books”: orders, materials, and costs; MES governs “execution and the real world”: dispatch, production reporting, quality, and traceability. Digiwin ERP and MES follow a standard integration flow — create work order → open production batch → issue materials to the work order → report production → FQC → line-side warehouse receipt → close work order — passing data back and forth throughout, so the planning layer and the floor layer speak from one set of data.

How does MES differ from the AIoT equipment cloud, and which should we roll out first?

In a sentence: MES governs the process layer — “doing the right things” — while AIoT governs the equipment layer — “doing things right”, the two working together top to bottom.

  • MES — standard process control: first-pass yield, yield rate, on-time delivery rate, cycle time, output per person, and WIP
  • AIoT equipment cloud — single-point equipment optimization: OEE, TEEP, utilization rate, machining-parameter collection, and run monitoring

To solve “can’t see progress” first, choose MES; to solve “low equipment efficiency” first, choose AIoT — request an assessment, and a consultant will recommend a rollout order based on your floor’s pain points.

Can our overseas plants in Thailand and Vietnam use it too? Will local staff be able to understand it?

Yes. The system interface switches by default among Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, and Thai, and scan- and tablet-based production reporting lowers the learning curve on the floor; exception alerts are pushed via LINE, WeChat, MAIL, and on-screen notifications, so cross-time-zone management misses nothing. The Thailand market is served locally by the Digiwin (Thailand) team; for the tax and compliance homework to do before setting up a plant, see this site’s Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia pages.

How long after deploying MES before we see results?

It depends on shop-floor complexity and how deep the rollout goes; public case studies on our site offer a reference:

  • Malaysia TBL — a metal mold and die plant, live within two months, with real-time visibility into equipment utilization and delivery dates
  • Vietnam Pin-Chuan (STC) — eMES live in four weeks, production efficiency up about 20% and yield above 95%

Before rollout, a consultant assesses your floor on site, and a phased go-live reduces risk.

Production cycle cut 28.5%Plant transparency up 80%Traditional / Simplified / English multilingual interface50,000+ enterprise customers44+ years of manufacturing know-how

Set your shop-floor standard with the very first work order

Tell us about your industry and plant footprint, and a consultant will assess the MES rollout path that fits you best — from visibility on a single line to replicating shop-floor standards across plants abroad, step by step.

Request an Assessment

A free assessment, with no rollout commitment required.