The IDL MES (Ideal Manufacturing Execution System) is a project made for IDL Industries. The system is designed to streamline the production process by centralizing project documentation, scheduling, and reporting into one system. This is a custom solution meant to replace the spreadsheet and ERP systems we have tried before. It is simpler and more dashboard oriented than the spreadsheet method. It also cuts out all of the unnecessary navigation and clutter of a full ERP system because it focuses only on the needs of the shop instead of trying to encapsulate the entire company.

This documentation is meant to provide information on requirements, design decisions, and deployment so that anyone with a little command line experience should be able to deploy an instance of the MES.

The shop interface provides an overview of active projects dynamically generated from the database. Each active project shows the scheduled dates, order quantity, current production status, current production percent, relevant shop floor documentation, and a buttons for entering time and production data.

The admin interface provides everything the shop interface does, but adds information for scrap rate, tooling consumption, and material consumption. The admin interface will also have a menu for creating new projects, adding tool lists, updating the SKU list, adding operators, and adding machines.