Automotive

• Shopfloor-Online MES provides real-time visibility of all production processes and OEE
• Keep inventory levels on the shop floor to a minimum without jeopardising contractual delivery times
• Enable Just-in-Time and Made to Order operations with better material flow throughout the supply chain and to the end customer
• Save indirect labour cost through the automated collection of data from various sources on the shop floor as well as suppliers: PLC, Scada, CMM…
• Ensure assembly torque processes work 24/7
• Accelerate Time-to-Market - introduce new products faster through the seamless data collection of production trials and increased flexibility of production process changes
• Implement rigorous Quality and compliance programmes
• Enable complete product traceability - provide a platform for standardised and manual quality checks, identify and quarantine non-conformant parts, register concerns and complaints

• Implement cross-plant benchmarking by standardising processes on a global-scale
• Integrate the supply chain better -  benchmark suppliers, and contribute to suppliers satisfactorily meeting conformance criteria
• Improve Design for Manufacture with comprehensive data collection being fed back to Engineering
• Reduce warranty claims and recalls

• Support the IT strategy of your company with an information system seamlessly connecting plant equipment to plant operations, to business management
• Lower the risk of implementation – take a step-by-step approach to MES software and incrementally meet business needs with Shopfloor-Online modules
• Improve access and ease deployment – Shopfloor-Online is web-based, accessible anywhere on the network
• A global solution – Lighthouse Systems’ manufacturing operations management solutions are multi-site, multi-lingual, multi-time-zone
• Reduce the complexities of support and training with one MES addressing all operations needs
• Cloud based MES Software – move the servers to the corporate data centre or move to the cloud
• Lean IT – consolidate manufacturing operations with one scalable platform; remove home-grown applications and reduce the number of interfaces to various systems increasingly difficult to support

Nissan - New Product Introduction

Well-known car manufacturer reduces new product launch time by 50% whilst ensuring Quality requirements are met:

• Over 63 spreadsheets replaced with the Quality and SPC modules of Shopfloor-Online MES, providing real-time data collection and analysis
• Quality data is now 100% accurate and reports are created in seconds

►Nissan Qashqai case study

Nissan - Powertrain

Automotive manufacturer increases efficiency and reduces warranty claims with the simplicity of improved quality data management:

• Standalone SPC software replaced with MES to monitor additional data and from multiple sources
• Shopfloor-Online now provides a unique platform for clear and immediate access to all Quality data generated in the production process of critical components

►Nissan (Sunderland) case study

Le Bélier - Aluminium Safety Component

Automotive supplier drives plant performance improvements with Shopfloor-Online MES:

• Quality Operations management: over 100,000 quality checks / year and over 1000 measuring actions/day
• Accurate and quick OEE
• Increased efficiency of NPI
• Reduced TCO of the manufacturing execution infrastructure

►Le Bélier case study

Bulten – Full Service Provider of fastener solutions

Automotive supplier gains process standardisation, visibility and improved quality control:

• Quality control system upgraded with automated data collection, a schedule for quality checks and real-time SPC analysis
• Quick and accurate reporting provides clarity and visibility of processes

►Bulten case study

Hydro Automotive and Thyssen Krup – Car Chassis and Press-Part Manufacturing

Parts manufacturer uses Shopfloor-Online to demonstrate process capabilities:

• Ensure maximum cycles from tooling before resetting or replacing
• Benchmark tool supplier conformance against company criteria

►See the Tool Management module for more information.