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IDL MES
About
The IDL MES (Ideal Manufacturing Execution System) is a project made when I worked at IDL Industries. The system was designed to streamline the production process by centralizing project documentation, scheduling, and reporting into one system. This was a custom solution meant to replace the spreadsheet and ERP systems we hae 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.
Basic Structure
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 also has a menu for creating new projects, adding tool lists, updating the SKU list, adding operators, and adding machines.
Confidential
Installing the MES
To install the MES you need access to the IDL github account. The backup of the automation server already has credentials installed so you can simply use the command line.
cd /var/www git clone git@github.com:IDLIndustries/mes.git ./mes/bin/configure_site.sh
