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Epicor Mattec MES: Real-Time Production Monitoring and Control
Know what is happening on your shop floor. Act before small production problems become expensive disruptions.
By turning shop-floor data into actionable operational information, Epicor Mattec MES helps your team make better decisions about production performance, machine utilisation, quality, and capacity.
Data V Tech Solutions helps manufacturers evaluate and implement Epicor solutions that connect production operations with business management.
Your Production Schedule Looks Fine. What Is Actually Happening on the Shop Floor?
A machine might be operating below its target cycle time. Scrap might be increasing. An unexpected stoppage might be consuming production capacity. Meanwhile, the office may still be working with yesterday’s production figures.
By the time these issues appear in a report, the opportunity to respond may already have passed.
For manufacturers operating multiple production lines, machines, or plants, limited shop-floor visibility makes it harder to identify bottlenecks, investigate performance losses, and coordinate production activities.
Epicor Mattec MES helps address this gap by collecting and analysing production information in real time.
Your team can use that information to:
- Identify production losses: Monitor downtime, cycle times, production counts, and scrap.
- Understand machine performance: Compare actual production performance against expectations.
- Respond to problems sooner: Use alarms and notifications to bring abnormal conditions to the attention of the relevant people.
- Improve capacity utilisation: Identify equipment and process inefficiencies that restrict output.
- Support quality control: Analyse critical process parameters and product measurements through statistical process control.
- Make better operational decisions: Give production, quality, and maintenance teams more timely information.
The goal is not another dashboard for people to admire during meetings.
It is better operational visibility that supports faster action.
What Can Epicor Mattec MES Help Your Factory Improve?
1. Reduce Unplanned Downtime
A machine that stops unexpectedly can disrupt more than its own production run. It can affect downstream operations, delivery commitments, labour allocation, and production schedules.
Epicor Mattec MES monitors machine status and production performance, helping teams identify downtime and investigate operational issues.
With machine alarms, downtime reporting, and condition-related information, your team can respond more effectively when equipment performance deviates from expectations.
Business value: Better visibility into downtime and a stronger foundation for improving equipment availability.
2. Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
OEE provides a structured way to understand how effectively production equipment is being used.
It considers three dimensions:
- Availability: How much of the planned production time the equipment is operating.
- Performance: How effectively the equipment operates relative to its expected production rate.
- Quality: How much of the output meets quality requirements.
Epicor Mattec MES provides production data and reporting capabilities that help manufacturers analyse equipment performance, cycle times, and quality-related losses.
Instead of relying exclusively on manually compiled reports, production teams can work with more timely operational information.
Business value: Better insight into the causes of production losses and opportunities for continuous improvement.
3. Reduce Scrap and Waste
Scrap does not always announce itself before it affects your margins.
Changes in machine conditions, process parameters, or production performance can contribute to quality problems. Identifying these issues quickly is important, particularly in high-volume manufacturing.
Epicor Mattec MES supports scrap reporting and statistical process control (SPC). Depending on the configured processes and connected equipment, manufacturers can monitor relevant machine parameters and product measurements to identify conditions requiring attention.
Business value: Greater visibility into scrap and process variation, supporting investigations and corrective action.
4. Make Better Use of Existing Production Capacity
Before investing in additional machines, manufacturers need to understand how effectively their current equipment is performing.
Slow cycle times, recurring stoppages, tool constraints, and inefficient scheduling can all affect available production capacity.
Epicor Mattec MES provides production monitoring and scheduling capabilities that help teams understand actual equipment performance and make more informed decisions about production resources.
Business value: Identify potential capacity improvements before committing to additional equipment or production resources.
5. Improve Production Scheduling
Production plans rarely survive contact with a changing factory floor.
Equipment availability changes. Actual cycle times differ from expectations. Priorities shift. A schedule based on outdated assumptions can quickly become difficult to execute.
Epicor Mattec MES supports dynamic job scheduling and provides visibility into machine and production status, helping manufacturers respond to operational changes.
Its scheduling capabilities can also support adjustments based on equipment conditions and job requirements, depending on the system configuration.
Business value: Better alignment between production planning and actual shop-floor conditions.
6. Support Proactive Maintenance
Maintenance teams need reliable information about equipment usage and operating conditions to plan interventions effectively.
Epicor Mattec MES includes preventive maintenance management capabilities and can provide access to machine runtime, cycle history, and condition-related reports.
These capabilities help maintenance teams plan activities using operational information rather than relying exclusively on fixed schedules or reacting after a breakdown.
Business value: Better-informed maintenance planning and improved visibility into equipment-related risks.
Epicor Mattec MES Features for Production Monitoring and Control
Epicor Mattec MES combines production monitoring, process control, scheduling, quality analysis, and machine-related information to support shop-floor execution.
The following capabilities help manufacturers build a more complete picture of production performance.
Note: The available functionality depends on the licensed modules, configuration, connected equipment, and integration requirements.
| Capability | What it does | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time production monitoring | Collects and analyses production data across supported machines, lines, and plants. | Helps teams understand current production performance. |
| Machine status monitoring | Tracks relevant equipment status and operating information. | Improves visibility into equipment availability and production interruptions. |
| Cycle-time monitoring | Records and analyses actual production cycle times. | Helps identify performance deviations and production constraints. |
| Scrap and downtime reporting | Provides information about production losses. | Supports root-cause investigation and continuous improvement. |
| Dynamic job scheduling | Supports adjustments to production schedules as operating conditions change. | Helps teams respond to changing production requirements. |
| Statistical Process Control (SPC) | Analyses supported product measurements and critical process parameters. | Helps identify process variation and quality issues. |
| Preventive maintenance management | Supports maintenance planning using relevant equipment and runtime information. | Helps maintenance teams organise interventions. |
| Alarms and notifications | Provides alerts about configured machine and production conditions. | Helps direct attention to issues requiring a response. |
| Operator tracking | Records operator-related production information, subject to configuration. | Supports production analysis and operational accountability. |
| Energy monitoring | Provides energy-use monitoring capabilities. | Helps manufacturers investigate energy consumption across relevant machines, jobs, shifts, or products. |
| Machine connectivity | Supports communication with equipment and other systems through compatible interfaces. | Helps connect shop-floor data with production information systems. |
| Production reporting and analysis | Provides access to historical and current production information. | Supports performance analysis and continuous improvement. |
Connect Shop-Floor Execution with Epicor Kinetic ERP
Continuous Improvement Integration
Production data becomes more valuable when it can support decisions beyond the factory floor.
ERP and MES address different operational needs.
Epicor Kinetic ERP manages the broader business and manufacturing processes. Epicor Advanced MES focuses on monitoring and controlling production operations.
An appropriately configured integration can connect these two environments, helping manufacturers align production planning with actual shop-floor performance.
For example:
- Production planning can be informed by more accurate operational data.
- Production teams can monitor machine performance against job requirements.
- Managers can investigate differences between planned and actual production.
- Quality and maintenance teams can use production information to support operational decisions.
- Business teams can improve coordination between production execution and wider manufacturing processes.
The exact information exchanged depends on the integration design, available interfaces, and system configuration.
ERP and MES: Different Responsibilities, Complementary Capabilities
| Business requirement | Epicor Kinetic ERP | Epicor Advanced MES |
|---|---|---|
| Business-wide resource planning | Core responsibility | Supports execution with shop-floor information |
| Production orders and job management | Supports production planning and management | Uses relevant job information for production execution |
| Real-time machine monitoring | Not its primary role | Core capability |
| Cycle-time and downtime analysis | Can use relevant production information | Provides production monitoring and analysis capabilities |
| Production quality monitoring | Supports broader quality processes | Supports SPC and production-related quality analysis |
| Shop-floor performance visibility | Depends on available data and configuration | Provides production monitoring and reporting |
| Business and operational reporting | Provides enterprise-level reporting | Provides detailed production-performance information |
The two systems are complementary, not interchangeable.
For manufacturers already using Epicor Kinetic, integrating MES may help close the gap between what the production plan expects and what is actually happening on the shop floor.
For manufacturers evaluating ERP and MES together, the architecture should be assessed against their operational requirements rather than assuming that every factory needs the same configuration.
Built for Manufacturers Where Machine Performance Matters
Data V Tech should prioritise the industries that align with its actual implementation experience and the product’s capabilities.
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
Production performance can depend heavily on machine cycle times, process parameters, tooling, and consistent product quality.
Production monitoring and process analysis can help manufacturers identify deviations, investigate scrap, and improve visibility into machine performance.
Relevant capabilities: Cycle-time monitoring, scrap reporting, SPC, machine monitoring, and production scheduling.
Packaging Manufacturing
High-volume production environments need visibility into output, downtime, and changing production requirements.
Monitoring actual machine performance can help production teams identify interruptions and investigate constraints affecting throughput.
Relevant capabilities: Production monitoring, downtime reporting, dynamic scheduling, and performance analysis.
Metal Manufacturing
Equipment utilisation, production-cycle performance, and maintenance planning can influence throughput and production costs.
Production monitoring can help manufacturers identify recurring stoppages and investigate opportunities to improve equipment performance.
Relevant capabilities: Machine monitoring, downtime analysis, maintenance management, and production reporting.
Implementing MES Is About More Than Connecting Machines
Manufacturers must determine which data matters, how production performance should be measured, which equipment can be connected, how the system should interact with ERP, and how teams will use the resulting information.
A technically functional system is only part of the equation. The configuration must also support the manufacturer’s operational priorities.
Data V Tech Solutions helps manufacturers evaluate and implement Epicor solutions in line with their business and manufacturing requirements.
Manufacturing and ERP Experience
Data V Tech works with manufacturers implementing Epicor ERP and related manufacturing solutions. This experience provides a foundation for discussing how shop-floor monitoring fits into broader production and business processes.
Connected Production and Business Systems
When ERP and MES are implemented together, integration requirements need to be considered from the beginning.
Data V Tech can help assess the relationship between production execution, business processes, and operational reporting.
A Focus on Operational Requirements
The appropriate MES configuration depends on the factory.
Equipment interfaces, production processes, reporting requirements, quality controls, and maintenance practices all influence the solution design.
The starting point should be your operational challenges, not a checklist of software features.
Customer Experience
Data V Tech’s customer story for Essons Global Industries documents its use of Epicor Kinetic and Epicor Advanced MES. The customer testimonial describes selecting Data V Tech as its implementation partner for Epicor ERP and MES.
“We decided to make Data V Tech our sole implementer of Epicor ERP and Epicor MATTEC – MES.” — Kai Yi Yu, Deputy General Director, Essons Global Industries
Is Epicor Mattec MES Right for Your Factory?
Manufacturing Execution System projects involve more than collecting machine signals.
Manufacturers must determine which data matters, how production performance should be measured, which equipment can be connected, how the system should interact with ERP, and how teams will use the resulting information.
A technically functional system is only part of the equation. The configuration must also support the manufacturer’s operational priorities.
Data V Tech Solutions helps manufacturers evaluate and implement Epicor solutions in line with their business and manufacturing requirements.
Before selecting a Manufacturing Execution System, consider the operational problems you need to solve.
A structured assessment should cover five areas.
These questions help establish whether Epicor Advanced MES is suitable for your environment and what implementation requirements need further investigation.
Data V Tech can discuss your requirements and help determine the appropriate next steps.
Production visibility
Production losses
Quality and process control
Machine connectivity
ERP integration
Frequently Asked Questions About Epicor Mattec MES
Epicor Mattec MES, also known as Epicor Advanced MES, is a Manufacturing Execution System that helps manufacturers monitor and control production operations.
It provides capabilities for production monitoring, machine performance analysis, downtime and scrap reporting, scheduling, statistical process control, and maintenance management.
The specific capabilities available depend on the product configuration and licensed functionality.
Epicor Kinetic ERP manages broader business and manufacturing processes, while Epicor Advanced MES focuses on production monitoring and shop-floor execution.
The systems can complement each other through integration, allowing manufacturers to connect business planning with actual production information.
They serve different purposes and should be evaluated according to the requirements of the factory and the wider business.
Yes. Epicor Mattec MES provides production monitoring and reporting capabilities that can help manufacturers analyse machine performance, downtime, cycle times, and quality-related losses.
These data points support OEE analysis and continuous improvement.
Actual OEE improvements depend on the quality of the underlying data, the configuration of the system, and the corrective actions taken by the manufacturing team.
Epicor Mattec MES helps manufacturers monitor equipment performance, identify downtime, and provide alerts about configured operating conditions.
These capabilities can help teams investigate problems and respond sooner.
The software does not automatically eliminate downtime. Results depend on equipment conditions, data availability, maintenance practices, and how the organisation responds to the information.
Epicor Mattec MES includes statistical process control capabilities for analysing supported product measurements and critical machine process parameters.
It can help manufacturers identify process variation and investigate quality issues.
The precise quality-control capabilities available depend on the configured solution and production requirements.
Epicor Mattec MES supports machine connectivity through compatible interfaces and communication technologies.
The appropriate approach depends on the equipment, controllers, available signals, existing infrastructure, and system configuration.
A technical assessment is recommended before confirming connectivity for a particular machine or production line.
Yes. Epicor Advanced MES can be configured to work with Epicor Kinetic ERP.
The integration can support the exchange of relevant production and business information, helping manufacturers connect production execution with planning and management processes.
The exact integration scope should be confirmed during solution design.
Epicor Mattec MES can be relevant to plastics and packaging manufacturers that need better visibility into machine performance, cycle times, production output, downtime, and process quality.
Suitability depends on the specific manufacturing processes, equipment, data requirements, and intended use cases.
Implementation time depends on the number and types of machines, the complexity of the production environment, connectivity requirements, integration scope, and the availability of reliable production data.
A realistic timeline should be established after assessing the factory and defining the project scope.
Data V Tech Solutions works with manufacturers implementing Epicor ERP and related manufacturing solutions.
The first step is to understand your production challenges, machine connectivity requirements, reporting needs, and existing ERP environment.
Based on these requirements, Data V Tech can discuss the suitability of Epicor Advanced MES and the next steps for evaluating a potential implementation.
Your Machines Generate Data. Is Your Factory Using It?
If your team still relies heavily on manual production reports, delayed downtime information, or incomplete visibility into machine performance, it may be time to evaluate a more connected approach to production monitoring.
Epicor Mattec MES can help manufacturers turn shop-floor data into information that supports production decisions, performance analysis, and continuous improvement.
Talk to Data V Tech Solutions about your production monitoring and MES requirements.