User scenarios

Description: For those tools/molds that has no connectivity with control systems, it is possible to collect the production hours performed. Automatic working hours counting is mainly used for maintenance purposes.

Required modules: Production, Data collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For those tools/molds that has no connectivity with control systems, it is possible to collect the production cycles performed. Automatic cycle counting is mainly used for maintenance purposes.

Required modules: Production, Data collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The MES PHARIS system includes a wide range of communication drivers for communication with machines, peripherals, control stations, scales, optical gates, etc. For communication, the MES system integrates a set of different communication protocols – e.g. Euromap63, Euromap77, OPC UA, OPC DA, Modbus, Profibus, MTConnect, Printerport, RS232, USB, ETH, Digital cards, Analog cards…

The PHARIS MES system allows to set alarm limits of technological parameters for a specific product (in the context of a work order) for a machine, or a control station or peripheral device.

During production, the actual value is then automatically checked against the set limits. An alarm system can be used to alert the operator if the limits are exceeded.

The process parameters or measurement parameters can be downloaded automatically to the MES system, or manual input by the operator according to predefined control plan rules can be required directly from the production terminal.

Required modules: Data collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: MES PHARIS supports the customized reports, printing reports and labels. Data sets are available for accessing production data so that it is not necessary to know the structure of the entire database. Unlike data views for BI, these are used to access operational data. In the Reporting services technology, reports can be integrated directly into the PHARIS MES environment, including the operator terminal. Customer reports can also run as a screensaver on the production terminal – e.g. OEE, hourly workplace performance, etc.

Required modules: System core

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: There is a pre-built set of data sources available in system. It can be directly used as a data source for BI tools such as Power BI.

This data is used for reporting at a higher level of aggregation, i.e. mainly for creating composite indicators from sub-systems – MES, ERP, WMS, Attendance systems, etc.

Required modules: System core

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The MES system evaluates on-line the collected technological data from production equipment, peripheral devices, control stations… At the same time, it ensures their historization for traceability.

The data can be stored not only for a device or tool (mold), but also in the context of a production operation for a specific product, thus contributing to ensure traceability in terms of compliance with technological parameters.

Required modules: Data collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system enables automatic recording of production hours, which are systematically assigned not only to the machine but also to the tool (mold). The machine hours can then be entered into user predefined conditions for automatic generation of maintenance requirements.

Required modules: Data collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: If the machine/equipment allows it, we recommend using PHARIS for automatic cycle collection. This significantly refines operator reporting, job recording and performance evaluation.

Cycle time information is a very important variable for digitalisation and efficient production management!

The cycle (stroke) of a machine is most often used for automatic collection of production quantities, recording of production and setting pieces, tool management, maintenance management of machines and tools, standardization of production cycles, evaluation of machine or operator efficiency, generation of automatic downtime, etc.

Required modules: Production, Data collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The MES PHARIS system includes a wide range of communication drivers for communication with machines, peripherals, control stations, gauges, scales, optical gates, etc. For communication, the MES system integrates a set of different communication protocols – e.g. Euromap63, Euromap77, OPC UA, OPC DA, Modbus, Profibus, MTConnect, Printerport, RS232, USB, ETH, Digital cards, Analog cards…

MES system on-line evaluates collected process data from production equipment, peripheral devices, control stations… At the same time, it ensures their historization for traceability.

The data can be stored not only for a device or tool, but also in the context of a work order operation for a specific product, thus contributing to ensure traceability in terms of compliance with technological parameters.

Required modules: Data collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The MES PHARIS system includes a wide range of communication drivers for communication with machines, peripherals, control stations, gauges, scales, optical gates, etc. For communication, the MES system integrates a set of different communication protocols – e.g. Euromap63, Euromap77, OPC UA, OPC DA, Modbus, Profibus, MTConnect, Printerport, RS232, USB, ETH, Digital cards, Analog cards… If the machine/device allows it, we recommend to use PHARIS for automatic cycle collection. This significantly improves the accuracy of operator reporting, job recording and performance evaluation.

Cycle time information is a very important variable for digitalisation and efficient production management!

The cycle of a machine is most often used for automatic retrieval of the quantity of pieces produced, registration of production and adjustment pieces, tool management, maintenance management of machines and tools, standardization of production cycles, evaluation of machine or operator efficiency, generation of automatic downtime, etc.

Required modules: Data collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The API allows you to create a plug-in that can extend standard processes with actions that are customer-specific. The API is accessible through DLL libraries that make the interface for plug-ins available. The API is only available for .NET environment.

Required modules: System core

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For the purpose of integration with other systems, the REST API allows you to access data in MES PHARIS. Unlike the Standard Interface, it allows you to access live data.

Required modules: System core

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For uploading control programs to/from machines, MES/MOM includes a wide range of communication drivers – e.g. Euromap63, Euromap77, OPC UA, OPC DA, Modbus, Profibus, MTConnect, RS232, USB, ETH…

Centralization of control programs/machine settings in MES PHARIS offers a unified controlled management of versions and variants of control programs. The system also automatically takes care of the controlled upload of the correct version to the respective machine.

Recording of machine control programs is possible in context:

– Machines.

– Tools/molds.

– Production command operations.

The MES system is then able to provide in a controlled manner:

– Withdrawing the program from the machine.

– Retrieving the program to the machine.

– Uploading the program to the machine in the context of the production operation.

– Uploading the program to the machine in the context of a mold on the machine.

Central program management is implemented in MES PHARIS with the requirements of the quality management standards of suppliers to the automotive industry. Within the framework of these standards, it meets the requirements for registration, approval and centrally controlled distribution of programs to/from machines and equipment.

Required modules: Data collection, Extended communication with machines

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The PHARIS MES system includes a standardized communication interface (SCI) for integration with third party systems (ERP, Economic System, WMS, ACS, QMS…). It is based on the ANSI/ISA-95 standard for the integration of business and management information systems. Communication is primarily based on web services (WS) with support for other communication methods (DB, IDoc, …). Within the projects we have integrated a wide range of systems into the MES system – e.g. SAP, HELIOS, K2, QI, KARAT, ES POHODA, NAVISION, 1S, S3, BYZNYS, ENTRY, OR, …

Required modules: System core

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: MES PHARIS addresses the comprehensive management and distribution of production documentation in electronic form directly to the workplace. The aim of this managed process is to ensure that up-to-date and approved production documentation is readily available on the terminal screen with the MES PHARIS production client directly at the machine.

Production documentation can be attached to many objects – machine, product, operation, maintenance…

Documentation can be in many formats – PDF, DOCX, XLS, DWG, JPG, AVI…

PHARIS can be as a primary manager of production documentation, or it allows integration to third party systems from where it takes documents – DMS, ERP, AGILE…

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: In the material numbering system, it is possible to define the materials that enter production (input material, semi-finished products, dyes, packaging material, …) and that leave production (semi-finished products, products, waste). Materials are usually imported from ERP systems, or the material codebook can be managed directly in MES. Imported materials can be supplemented with data missing in ERP.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system allows manual creation of Production Definition or their import from ERP systems. The workflows contain the definition of operations, input materials (BOM), steps, parameters, file documentation, resource requirements (workplace, machines, tools, people), training requirements, packaging regulations and process conditions (links between operations, required confirmations, …).

Imported technological procedures can be supplemented in the MES system with data that are missing in the ERP system – e.g. technological parameters from the equipment to be stored for a specific product variant, inspection plans, etc.

For the manual creation of Production Definition, user-defined templates can be used.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: When manually creating workflows, operation templates can be used to easily enter values that are repeated for different workflows. Also, when importing workflows from ERP, operation templates can be used for data that is not contained in ERP systems and is added in the MES system. Operation templates can be created by the user.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system allows you to define your own custom code lists that can then be used in different parts of the system (for example, for defining values for Parameters, defining flags for Notifications, detailed specification for Work Registrations, etc.).

Required modules: System core

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For uploading control programs to/from machines, MES/MOM includes a wide range of communication drivers – e.g. Euromap63, Euromap77, OPC UA, OPC DA, Modbus, Profibus, MTConnect, RS232, USB, ETH…

Centralization of control programs/machine settings in MES PHARIS offers a unified controlled management of versions and variants of control programs. The system also automatically takes care of the controlled upload of the correct version to the respective machine.

Recording of machine control programs is possible in context:
– Machines.
– Tools/molds.
– Production command operations.

The MES system is then able to provide in a controlled manner:
– Withdrawing the program from the machine.
– Retrieving the program to the machine.
– Uploading the program to the machine in the context of the production operation.
– Uploading the program to the machine in the context of a mold on the machine.

Central program management is implemented in MES PHARIS with the requirements of the quality management standards of suppliers to the automotive industry. Within the framework of these standards, it meets the requirements for registration, approval and centrally controlled distribution of programs to/from machines and equipment.

Required modules: Data Collection, Extended Communication with Machines

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For the purpose of integration with other systems, the REST API allows you to access data in MES PHARIS. Unlike the Standard Interface, it allows you to access live data.

Required modules: System Core

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The API allows you to create a plug-in that can extend standard processes with actions that are customer-specific. The API is accessible through DLL libraries that make the interface for plug-ins available. The API is only available for .NET environment.

Required modules: System Core

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: MES PHARIS production scheduling is used to schedule the production of products released for production. The scheduling is based on predefined Production Definitions, for which the expected time for individual operations, the required materials and raw materials, the types of equipment involved in the operations, etc. can be specified.

Planning is carried out for defined resources – machines, workplaces, substitutable machines, additional equipment, taking into account the status of other resources (materials), the structure of people on shifts or electricity tariffs.

Scheduling is influenced by the user setting of the schedule calculation parameters. The system displays to the user in a clear graphical form the already planned and ongoing orders interlaced on the timeline and calendars showing the milestones of individual operations. The display of the plan is made through the production machines (equipment).

The system alerts the user to critical points and allows the user to change the input conditions for planning individual orders in a user-friendly way.

PHARIS uses analytical and genetic algorithms (GA/AI) to automatically generate the production schedule.

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The planner has the ability to change the production plan by manual intervention. This mainly involves changing work orders (deadlines, pieces…), calculation parameters (priority, evaluation functions…), or changing availability (of equipment or personnel). In the resulting Gantt chart display, the system also allows easy shifting of operations in the form of “Drag & Drop”.

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The planner has the ability to simulate different production plans. Individual simulations can be saved and compared. The production plan can be influenced by manual interventions. This is mainly by changing work orders (deadlines, pieces…), calculation parameters (priority, evaluation functions…) or by changing availability (equipment or personnel). In the resulting Gantt chart display, the system also allows easy scrolling of operations in the form of “Drag&Drop”.

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system allows you to define the transition conditions between operations (sequences of operations, transport batches, transport times). Scheduling minimizes the amount and length of reordering between different productions. The system schedules the links between orders for semi-finished products and orders for finished products (which consume the semi-finished products, producers-consumers).

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in version: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Production scheduling in MES PHARIS in combination with the Maintenance module can take into account the maintenance requirements of equipment or tools in the production plan. The system is able to reduce the availability/availability of equipment, workstations or tools due to scheduled maintenance.

The system alerts the responsible persons, for example, of the need for maintenance on a piece of equipment/tool on a scheduled job, who have the possibility to decide operatively how to react to this event – whether to accept the interruption of the job during production due to maintenance, or whether to postpone the maintenance to the start of the scheduled job.

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS, Maintenance Management

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Among the limiting sources of MES PHARIS production scheduling we include:
– Materials (material orders, availability, production of semi-finished products),
– availability of machines and tools according to calendars, taking into account maintenance,
– availability of personnel according to the calendar – I schedule according to the structure of people on shift,
– energy according to tariff bands.

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in version: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Production scheduling allows you to fix the schedule for defined groups of devices and recalculate the schedule only for the remaining devices. It is used in cases where schedulers schedule only their” production section, or different production sections are scheduled with different frequency, etc. For example, I can schedule assembly lines/assemblies separately without affecting the schedule on the production equipment.”

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Production Schedule includes tools and reports for analyzing statistical data to compare generated schedules/simulations against each other. It is used by schedulers to select the optimal schedule according to their preferences.

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Scheduled operations of work orders are automatically supplemented with scheduled start times and scheduled production equipment (machines, workstations) based on the approved schedule.

Work orders are released chronologically to production, creating a work queue that is further distributed to shiftleaders, handlers or operators at production terminals.

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The production schedule generates a list of material requirements, for which production equipment (machine, workplace), at what time and in what quantity input materials will be needed. This information can be transmitted online by MES PHARIS to external systems (ERP, WMS…). In MES PHARIS, a material requirements report is available that corresponds to the production plan.

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Scheduled operations of work orders can be exported to external systems (ERP) via the standardized SCI communication interface.

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Scheduled operations of work orders can be monitored in production plan reports. One example is the shift plan execution report, where the actual progress of the shift is compared with the shift plan. The production plan is also visualized in the form of a clear gantt chart that supports easy drag & drop movement of scheduled work operations.

Required modules: Production, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The module is designed for clients who do not generate work orders from received orders in the ERP system or use only the economic system economic system like Pohoda or Money category.

In this case, MES PHARIS retrieves Sales Orders from these systems, which contain information about the type of product, required quantity and expected delivery date. MES PHARIS is then able to automatically generate work orders based on these sales orders, finished goods stock levels and minimum stock requirements. Rules can also be entered for optimum production batch, minimum production batch, stock levels, etc. MRP handles orders, forecasts, recalls.

Required modules: Production, Orders MRP

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The user can create work orders from the received orders (imported from ERP or economic system like Pohoda, Money etc). The technological aspects of the work orders are taken from the technological procedures of the product. The link between sales orders and work orders allows to monitor the work in progress and the status of individual sales orders.

Required modules: Production, Orders MRP

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Work calendars allow you to define the availability of machines, people and tools according to calendar time. Work calendars are primarily used for production scheduling. For machines, work calendars are also used to calculate OEE. Shifts, standard calendars, exception calendars, etc. can be defined in module so called Calendars. Calendars can be shared for multiple resources or can be set individually for a single resource.

Required modules: System Core

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report with a list of required input material for individual machines in time periods. It is based on the production schedule.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report with a list of required packaging for each machine in time periods. It is based on the production schedule.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics, Production Monitoring, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report with a list of required personnel of a given qualification in time slots. It is based on the production schedule.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Production is primarily schedulled for machines. If we are to plan maintenance, the two must necessarily meet. Any maintenance means machine downtime, from a planning point of view it creates a time window within which production cannot be planned. The APS module of Pharis takes these downtimes into account and takes them into account in its calculation algorithm.

Required modules: Production, Maintenance Management, Detailed Schedulling – APS

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Operations may be required to be confirmed by persons with the relevant qualification (role). Confirmation is used, for example, to release production. The most common confirmations for production release include: material handler’s confirmation of material handling, checker’s confirmation of conformity to drawing, operator’s confirmation of workplace preparation, setter’s confirmation of machine setup, etc.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: A system for online communication between production (terminal) and quality staff for the purpose of releasing production. The operator does not have to physically visit the inspection site to request a production release or for inspection results. All necessary communication is done electronically. The inspection system can see the current production release requests. The release result is transferred online to the production terminal and communicated to the operator. Unreleased production is notified with higher priority.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Before starting production, shift or at the beginning of the day, the operator has to clear the work area for production. This is most often accomplished by a semaphore (list) of actions that the operator must perform and confirm. These tasks usually include checking the workplace, gauges, poka-yoke, 5S, OHS, material, etc. The release of the workplace is realized (in the system) by confirmation of the operation.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: All production releases are archived in the system and can be evaluated retrospectively. Production release information is available in individual work orders as well as in individual operations and work orders. In summary, production releases can then be displayed in user reports.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: If the required production release confirmations are not made, then the registrations for that (unreleased) production can be blocked.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: In the “Poka Yoke Verification” downtime mode, the operator checks the Poka Yoke system at the workplace and records the result of the check.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The work queue displays those work orders which should be processed at a given workplace in chronological order according to the plan. The work queue is primarily used for registering operators (setter, operator, quality check, etc.) for scheduled operations (work orders). The work queue is displayed to the operator on the production terminals. The work queue can be filtered according to the location of the terminal in production, the logged equipment, tools etc.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The operator registers to the work order by selecting the operation from the job queue displayed on the production terminal. It is mainly used in full digital production. Alternatively, it is possible to register by reading a barcode or QR code of a maximally simplified work order waybill.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Registration by rotation (switching among operators) is the maximum simplification of the operator’s interaction with the production terminal, which in a simplified mode takes over the registration to the work order after the previous operator.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The operator registers to the work order or order by reading the barcode or QR code of the maximally simplified work order waybill. Alternatively, it is possible to register by selecting an operation from the work queue displayed on the production terminal. It is mainly used in the case of full digital production.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: By registering to production, PHARIS creates a logical link of a work order to a specific workplace and operator. Within the registration, the operator sees the complete context of the running order on the production terminal and in a simplified user environment records related information about the work order – non-conformities, material consumption, control steps, confirmations, etc.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The PHARIS system automatically records the human time of the operator based on the registrations to the work order or order. At the same time, the system includes mechanisms for calculation and evaluation of human time in multi-machine operation. The human time can be sent to the ERP system via the standardized SCI communication interface together with the labour input, where it is used to refine the production costing.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The production terminals are also used to record the quantity of OK and NOK pieces produced (for a given operation, work order, product).
If technologically possible, the pieces produced are automatically loaded into the work order based on the machine cycles. PHARIS allows the definition of a cavity/multiplicity within the technological process, which can be adjusted by the authorised person, usually within the setting, according to the actual machine setup. The number of pieces produced is calculated by PHARIS as the number of cycles multiplied by the defined cavity. The pieces produced are loaded into OK pieces within the registration to the work order and the operator has the possibility to reclassify these pieces into NOK.
If it is a manual workstation (usually assembly), the OK and NOK pieces produced are entered manually by the operator. Alternatively, the cycle time can be considered as the cycle time, e.g. the time interval between the reading of the barcode of the penultimate and the last piece.

Required modules: Production, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The PHARIS system allows the creation and management of code list of types of non-conformities that may occur on a specific product or equipment. These code list can be managed directly in MES PHARIS, or they are loaded automatically from the ERP system via the standardized communication interface (SCI). Operators then have the ability to reclassify OK pieces to NOK via the production terminal and easily assign a specific defect type for subsequent quality evaluation. The PHARIS system also supports the additional re-qualification of NOK pieces from the main client or e.g. as part of a separate quality control operation.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system enables the registration of consumed material, including its batch. Consumption can be calculated automatically as normative according to the predefined material consumption within the technological process multiplied by the number of produced pieces. Or the system allows the operator to enter the consumption manually via the production terminal. Furthermore, the operator has the possibility to enter excess consumption that is beyond the normal normative consumption, e.g. material consumed during adjustment.
In PHARIS, it is possible to set up the automatic sending of consumed material to the ERP system together with the work confirmation.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The setter registers for a work order by selecting an operation from the work queue displayed on the production terminal and selects the option to register for setting. It is mainly used in full digital production. Alternatively, it is possible to register for setting by reading a barcode or QR code of a maximally simplified work order guide.
Based on the registration, the PHARIS system records the length of set-up time and the identification of the setter.
The system can compare the settting standard defined in the production definition with the actual setting time in real process. A warning can be set if this standard (norm) is exceeded.
The setter has additional options such as records of set-up pieces, tool set-up, tool cavity adjustment, records of consumed material, over-consumption…

Setting time can be sent to the ERP system via the standardized SCI communication interface.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The setter is able to register the deployment of the tool as part of his adjustment registration. The tool is preloaded to the setter for the combination of work order, product and machine. The system offers the possibility to limit the deployment to the prescribed equipment and the prescribed production.

Setting the mold (tool) can be done via the production terminal or via an android mini client (PDA, mobile phone).

Deploying the tool results in a so-called change of the tool location to the machine” location. This change of location functionality can also be used to track the movement of the mould e.g. for maintenance, stock position etc.

For the identification of moulds it is possible to use e.g. RFID identification, where we use high temperature RFID tags.

Once the tool is deployed, cycles from the machine are automatically assigned to the specific tool. This has implications for automatic generation of maintenance requests, production scheduling, etc.

After tool setting, the setter has the possibility to adjust the tool cavity in the system or upload the program (setting parameters) to the machine.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system enables the registration of consumed material, including its batch. The operator has the possibility to enter excess consumption that is beyond the normal normative consumption, e.g. material consumed during adjustment.
In PHARIS, it is possible to set up automatic sending of consumed material to the ERP system together with the work confirmation.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For each product it is possible to define the number of start-up pieces and the mode of their registration in the Production Definition. It is possible to systematically prevent the inclusion of set-up and start-up OK and NOK pieces among the manufactured pieces.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The PHARIS system records the length of setting time and the setter’s identification based on the registration.
The system is able to compare in real time the defined standard (normative) for setting in the Production Definition with the actual setting time. A warning can be set if this standard is exceeded.

Statistics are available in the System to evaluate the efficiency of the setters from many aspects – view through setters, machine, work orders, …

The outputs from the statistics can be used as a data source for creating standards.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Optimization of registration to multiple parallel production by one person. Minimizing the necessary activities for evidence of parallel work.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: MES PHARIS enables the so-called multiple registration within the operator registration for more work order operations. The multiple registration functionality offers operator registration for multiple work order operations on different devices within the same production unit. Multiple registration is mainly used in multi-machine operation – the user does not waste time with individual registrations for multiple devices. Instead of the standard device and operation selection, after the operation code is loaded, the user is presented with the other VP operations and can select which operations to perform multiple registration on.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Work confirmations for concurrent registrations of one person can be made all together.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The PHARIS system automatically records the operator’s human time based on the registrations for work orders. In the case when more than one operator is working on one work order at the same time, the registration is performed by the foreman who is responsible for the registration and the other operators are identified by reading their personal card as auxiliary operators. This provides an automatic mechanism for the correct calculation of human time for subsequent evaluation. The total man hours can be sent to the ERP system via the standardised SCI communication interface together with the labour input, where they are used to refine the costing of production.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: In the case where production is product-driven, the operator does not perform registration by selecting a production command operation, but initiates registration by reading a unique identifier on the product. Once the piece is loaded, the system allows the correct released settings to be uploaded to the machine and the current production context to be displayed on the production terminal – production documentation, production steps…

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Support for different variants of concurrent production.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Support and optimization of work with parallel production of different products on one machine. For example, left-right parts, multi-cavity molds, etc.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Support and optimization of work performed by one person paralelly on multiple machines.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Support and optimization of work performed by multiple people on one machine.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Recording the work of the auxiliary operator (without the need for interaction of the auxiliary operator with the production terminal).

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system supports manual management of downtime type. Alternatively, the downtime can be retrieved from the ERP system via the standardized SCI communication interface.
Downtime can be initiated in several ways:
Manual initiation and termination of downtime by the operator via the production terminal.
Automatic downtime – the system allows automatic initiation of downtime in the event of machine inactivity – e.g. if the System does not receive cycle information within 2 times the normative cycle time, the System will automatically initiate downtime.
The system can automatically read the machine status from smarter machines via the control system including the specific type of downtime e.g. lack of material in the machine.

Required modules: Production, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system allows manual starting and ending of downtimes and their typing from a predefined downtime dial. Downtime can be filtered by facility/workplace or operator role.
Manual work with downtime is mainly used where it is not possible to set up automatic downtime. These are primarily manual assembly/assembly workstations where the System does not collect cycles from the workstation.
Downtime also enters into the evaluation of OEE equipment efficiency, operator performance and downtime statistics.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: PHARIS allows you to set up Automatic Downtime. Automatic downtime is system initiated in case of machine inactivity – e.g. if the System does not receive information about the cycle within 2 times the normative cycle time, the System automatically initiates the downtime.

From smarter machines, the System can automatically read the machine status via the control system including the specific type of downtime e.g. lack of material in the machine.

After receiving the cycle information again, or the corresponding signal from the machine control system, the system automatically terminates the downtime.

Automatic downtime plays an important role especially for machines running in a regular production cycle.

Required modules: Production, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system enables automatic recording of equipment micro-downtimes, which can mean more recordable losses with large numbers of production and equipment. The length of micro downtime is user-definable in the System, i.e. the customer chooses how long a machine downtime is important for evaluation.

Required modules: Production, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The occurrence of downtime on the device can be graphically displayed on the visualization screen in production (e.g. by changing colour or flashing) and then linked to the Alarm System, which provides notification/alarm to a predefined operator/role in the form of an internal system message, SMS, email, pager message, etc.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system provides information for evaluating downtime losses by machine used and interrupted job.
The data can be sent to the ERP where financial evaluation can be made. And this according to the cost of the machine or the cost of the product, see interrupted order. Downtime is machine downtime, and an interrupted order is an order interrupted by downtime.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: In addition to alarms, the System includes a set of notification functionalities and follow-up scenarios. Notifications extend the alarm system and are primarily intended for recipients on the shop floor. They are triggered by production staff or by automatically set mechanisms.
Notifications are used to inform about the status of production, to alert about production problems and triggered requests.
Depending on the type and the recipient, the notification is made by displaying it on a production terminal on the workplace, by message (system, mail, sms, pager) or by using a large screen, or by a combination of the message sent and the information on the large screen.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system effectively monitors the approaching end work order. The aim is to support the SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Dies) method as much as possible, i.e. to synchronise production flows in order to minimise set-up times for tool, machine or equipment changeovers. The challenge is to reduce the overhead associated with the changeover and ensure efficient preparation of the workplace, equipment or tool, e.g. timely drying of material, mould tempering, preparation of hoses and peripherals, etc.

Notification/alerting of the approaching end of work order is carried out via production terminals directly at the workplace or globally for all workplaces by graphic visualisation on large screens on the hall or e.g. in shiftleader office.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system effectively addresses the possibility of calling selected professions/roles by the operator directly to the workplace. The usual called professions are quality checks, setter, handler, or IT support.

Individual calls are notified. The system automatically records call lengths, response times. The solution also includes the possibility of escalating the call in case of failure to respond in time.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system effectively addresses the possibility of calling selected professions/roles by the operator directly to the workplace. The usual called professions are quality checks, setter, handler, or IT support.

Individual calls are notified. The system automatically records call lengths, response times. The solution also includes the possibility of escalating the call in case of failure to respond in time.

Required modues: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system measures the time from the start of the call to the arrival of the required person at the workplace/machine. In case the response time exceeds the set limits, the escalation system is activated, the behaviour of which can be set by the user.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The visualization screen of MES PHARIS is a tool (SCADA) that visually informs about the current state of production. The visualisation screens are primarily designed to be displayed on large screens on the production floor. The visualisation screens are created using a user editor, so it is entirely up to the customer what information they want to have available online. The screens can take various forms, ranging from the layout of the production hall, to schematic representations of machines, to tables, graphs and graphical signalling. Typically, the screens show the current status of the machines (production, setup, downtime, unscheduled, maintenance…), work in progress, slippage, current scrap rate, approaching end of job, performance, trend, operators, tools, process parameters, etc.
The screens also allow graphical representation of alarms, notifications, activated rules – e.g. flashing of an object when the end of a job is approaching, or calling an operator.

The visualisation screen is represented by a web page with a user-defined refresh interval (e.g. 10 s). It is therefore accessible not only on the screens in production, but from any PC, tablet or mobile phone.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The current state of the machine (production, setting, downtime, unscheduled, maintenance…) can be visually identified by the colouring of the work area of the production terminal (Andon).

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Production control of individual products in the prescribed sequence. It belongs to the principles of Just In Time (JIT) production.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system checks whether the individual products are processed in the prescribed sequence.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system checks whether the loaded piece corresponds to the registered production.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system checks whether an OK piece has been produced and included in the right sequence.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system prescribes in which position in the packaging unit the piece should be placed.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system handles piece failures of the sequence and manages adding pieces to the sequence.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: PHARIS provides full process support for label printing in a modern way – on-site. The aim is to make the handling of labels as efficient as possible and, above all, to prevent confusion, which in many cases leads to costly claims.
Packaging recipes can be created for products directly in the process flow in MES PHARIS, or MES automatically retrieves packaging recipes from the ERP system via the standardized SCI communication interface. Packaging recipes contain the capacities of packaging units (case, KLT…) or pallet units.

The management of packaging regulations in PHARIS is a very complex set of functionalities and scenarios. The system works with user-prepared packaging and pallet label templates, prioritization of packaging regulations, alternative packaging regulations, generation of number series, working with incomplete units, replenishment, transfers within units, etc.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The PHARIS system contains tools for creating and editing individual label templates for different products or customers. Packaging and pallet label templates are based on established standards, mainly VDA, GTL and others.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: If the machine/equipment allows it, we recommend using PHARIS for automatic cycle collection. This significantly refines operator reporting, job recording and performance evaluation.

Cycle time information is a very important variable for digitalisation and efficient production management!

The cycle (stroke) of a machine is most often used for automatic collection of production quantities, recording of production and setting pieces, tool management, maintenance management of machines and tools, standardization of production cycles, evaluation of machine or operator efficiency, generation of automatic downtime, etc.

Required modules: Production, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system enables automatic recording of production hours, which are systematically assigned not only to the machine but also to the tool (mold). The machine hours can then be entered into user predefined conditions for automatic generation of maintenance requirements.

Required modules: Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The MES system evaluates on-line the collected technological data from production equipment, peripheral devices, control stations… At the same time, it ensures their historization for traceability.

The data can be stored not only for a device or tool (mold), but also in the context of a production operation for a specific product, thus contributing to ensure traceability in terms of compliance with technological parameters.

Required modules: Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The PHARIS MES system allows you to set alarm limits of technological parameters for a specific product (in the context of a production operation) for a machine, or control station or peripheral device.

During production, the actual value is then automatically checked against the set limits. An alarm system can be used to alert the operator if the limits are exceeded.

The process parameters or measurement parameters can be downloaded automatically to the MES system, or manual input by the operator according to predefined contortion plan rules can be required directly from the production terminal.

Required modules: Production, Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: MES PHARIS offers automatic transfer of generated Alarms and Change Logs from the machine control system.

These logs are then available in the main MES PHARIS client for subsequent evaluation directly in the office without having to go to the machine.

The change log event generated by the machine can be linked to the MES PHARIS Alarm System.

Required modules: Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The centralization of control programs/machine settings in MES PHARIS offers a unified controlled management of versions and variants of control programs. The system also automatically takes care of the controlled upload of the correct version to the respective machine.

Recording of machine control programs is possible in context:
– Machines.
– Tools/molds.
– Production command operations.

The MES system is then able to provide in a controlled manner:
– Withdrawing the program from the machine.
– Retrieving the program to the machine.
– Uploading the program to the machine in the context of the production operation.
– Uploading the program to the machine in the context of a form on the machine.

Central program management is implemented in MES PHARIS with the requirements of the quality management standards of suppliers to the automotive industry. Within the framework of these standards, it meets the requirements for the registration, approval and centrally controlled distribution of programs to/from machines and equipment.

Required modules: Production, Extended Communication with Machines

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: It is possible to assign so-called business parameters to each work order. The system then offers the possibility of evaluating work orders according to the parameters agreed upon at the conclusion of the deal against the parameters defined in the Production Definition (TPV) and against the parameters actually achieved during production. The evaluation provides a view of the expected and actual parameters of the work order. It assesses the planned/actual production quality, planned/actual optimum production batch, planned/actual machine cycle time, planned/total machine clamping force, planned/actual length of setter intervention, etc.
It is essential that the evaluation of these business parameters is possible during production in on-line mode, not after production has finished, when it is no longer possible to intervene in production.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Using a production mini client (PDA), pieces that have been found to be non-conforming can be reassessmented and removed from packaging. The system also allows for the reordering of incomplete packaging resulting from the rejection of non-conforming pieces. Pieces with unique identification and pieces without unique identification can be reassessmented and moved.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The quantity of pieces in the packaging units can be verified by weighing the packaging unit. In the system, a single piece weight standard can be created, which is further used for weighing the packaging units with pieces. The system provides the operator with instructions on how many pieces to insert or remove in the package to achieve the desired number of pieces in the package.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: When incomplete packaging units are filled, the correct type of products contained is checked. The risk of misplacing a piece in the packaging in the process of repositioning the packaging unit or replenishing the packaging unit is eliminated.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The MES PHARIS system includes a wide range of communication drivers for communication with machines, peripherals, control stations, gauges, scales, optical gates, etc. For communication, the MES system integrates a set of different communication protocols – e.g. Euromap63, Euromap77, OPC UA, OPC DA, Modbus, Profibus, MTConnect, Printerport, RS232, USB, ETH, Digital cards, Analog cards… If the machine/device allows it, we recommend to use PHARIS for automatic cycle collection. This significantly improves the accuracy of operator reporting, job recording and performance evaluation.

Cycle time information is a very important variable for digitalisation and efficient production management!

The cycle of a machine is most often used for automatic retrieval of the quantity of pieces produced, registration of production and adjustment pieces, tool management, maintenance management of machines and tools, standardization of production cycles, evaluation of machine or operator efficiency, generation of automatic downtime, etc.

Required modules: Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The MES PHARIS system includes a wide range of communication drivers for communication with machines, peripherals, control stations, gauges, scales, optical gates, etc. For communication, the MES system integrates a set of different communication protocols – e.g. Euromap63, Euromap77, OPC UA, OPC DA, Modbus, Profibus, MTConnect, Printerport, RS232, USB, ETH, Digital cards, Analog cards…

MES system on-line evaluates collected process data from production equipment, peripheral devices, control stations… At the same time, it ensures their historization for traceability.

The data can be stored not only for a device or tool, but also in the context of a work order operation for a specific product, thus contributing to ensure traceability in terms of compliance with technological parameters.

Required modules: Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The production operator terminal usually runs only the MES PHARIS production client. For the purpose of entering data into external systems or displaying data from external systems, the functionality of calling an external application from the MES PHARIS production client can be used. The external application is opened in the context of the currently processed production. For example, the PALSTAT application can be used for SPC evaluation and can be launched from the MES PHARIS terminal with the parameters operator ID, product and production operation.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: MES PHARIS contains a dynamic graphical component so called Trends. It allows the user to create any number of graphs divided into individual tabs. By means of custom modifications it is possible to select any technological parameter or predefined group of parameters for each chart. The graphic component also enables on-line display, i.e. it mirrors in real time the technological values that are currently on the machines. This mode is widely used by technologists to monitor and modify machine behaviour, e.g. in case of increased scrap.

Required modules: Data Collection, Extended Communication with Machines

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Critical situations in production can be highlighted by sending a message. Messages are sent automatically when a defined condition is met. After the condition is evaluated, a message (internal system message, mail, sms, pager, …) is automatically sent to the selected recipients. The system contains a set of predefined messages for the most common situations in production.

Required modules: System Core

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Within the system you can manually send messages (internal system message, mail, sms, pager, …) to other users. The operators of the production terminals are only allowed to send predefined messages to predefined recipients. Messages can be addressed not only to users or groups of users, but also, for example, to a workstation or a machine. The message is then displayed to the person logged on to the production terminal at the workstation or machine.

Required modules: System Core

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Alarm system in accordance with ANSI/ISA-18.2. The system helps identify and signal events that require attention and action. Alarms are categorized (alarms, alerts) and prioritized to minimize the risk of overloading management personnel with unnecessary alarms. Alarms are based on data tags collecting information from machines, gauges, sensors and from operators (operators, setters, handlers, inspectors) in production. Alarms are triggered based on the fulfilment of user conditions.

Required modules: Monitoring, Data collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The alarm overview is used to monitor, evaluate and respond to alarm conditions. Alarms are categorized (alarms, alerts) and prioritized to minimize the risk of overloading personnel with unnecessary alarms. Alarms are managed to ensure that they are processed efficiently and quickly. The alarm overview provides information on the type of alarm, alarm status, time and reason for the alarm, alarm priority, alarm entity, production equipment related to the alarm, etc. For alarm acknowledgement, it is possible to attach a note for further alarm analysis.

Required modules: Monitoring, Data collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Alarm conditions in an alarm system according to ANSI/ISA-18.2 can be defined individually for each product. The definition of product-specific conditions is represented as a parameters in production definition. The triggered alarms are then automatically entered into the alarm system.

Required modules: Monitoring, Data collection, Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The paging system is used to digitally communicate with production staff. The primary purpose of the paging system is to call people with given qualifications and responsibilities to production workstations and machines to perform a specific activity. Examples include calling a material handler to remove material, calling a setter to eliminate downtime, calling an operator to continue production, etc. The calls are usually manually invoked from the production terminal. In addition to manual call-outs, there are also automatic call-outs (e.g., calling the setter before a production change). When an alert is called, the purpose of the call can be specified in more detail (by text, by selecting from a list, etc.). The time until the arrival of the called person is recorded for further escalation and evaluation purposes.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The visualization screens of the PHARIS production information system are a tool (SCADA) that visually informs about the current state of production. The visualisation screens are primarily designed to be displayed on large screens on the production floor. The visualisation screens are created using a user editor, so it is entirely up to the customer what information they want to have available online. The screens can take various forms, ranging from the layout of the production hall, to schematic representations of machines, to tables, graphs and graphical signalling. Typically, the screens show the current status of the machines (production, setup, downtime, unscheduled, maintenance…), work in progress, slippage, current scrap rate, approaching end of work order, performance, trend, operators, tools, process parameters, etc.
The screens also allow graphical representation of alarms, notifications, activated rules – e.g. flashing of an object when the end of a job is approaching, or calling an operator.

The visualisation screen is represented by a web page with a user-defined refresh interval (e.g. 10 s). It is therefore accessible not only on the screens in production, but from any PC, tablet or mobile phone.

Required modules: Production, Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The recorded technological values can be displayed in the system via two basic ways.
1. The table, which can be customized and exported to xls, csv.
2. Graphically, using the dynamic Trends component. This allows the user to create any number of graphs separated into individual tabs. Via the custom modifications it is possible to select any technological parameter or predefined group of parameters into each graph. The graphic component also enables on-line display, i.e. it mirrors in real time the technological values that are currently on the machines. This mode is widely used by technologists to monitor and modify machine behaviour, e.g. in case of increased scrap.

Required modules: Production, Data Collection, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Those pieces that have been produced out of the time period covered by the registration and for which cycle times and lengths are not precisely known may affect the accuracy of the OEE calculation. When evaluating the OEE, the user can decide how the pieces being taken over will be included in the OEE calculation (whether they will be included, ignored or counted according to the standard).

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: A timeline (Gantt chart) is a tool that provides a real-time view of events taking place in production. The timeline can also be used to track historical data (days and shifts in the past). The timeline clearly shows at what time selected types of events took place on selected machines/workplaces. In addition to events, it is also possible to monitor individual machine cycles. By comparing the registrations of people on the machine and the machine cycles, we can check work and record discipline. By monitoring machine cycles, we can then evaluate fluctuations in the performance of day and night shifts, etc.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: An overview of all events and work activities (production, downtime, settings, quality checks, …) that the operator has performed. PHARIS offers the possibility of automatic data retrieval from the attendance system. In cooperation with the data from the attendance system, the ratio of time spent on the workplace to the productive activity on the workplace can be monitored. The data can be further evaluated in the reporting system or sent to Power BI.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For each operator, the total performance can be tracked as a percentage over all production activities for the selected time period. In addition, performance can be monitored and evaluated across individual activities and individual labour inputs separately. Performance analyses can be carried out in the main MES PHARIS client, or each operator can view their performance directly on the production terminal at the workplace. The data can be further evaluated in the reporting system or sent to Power BI.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The operator’s work performance may be affected by external objective circumstances. The operator has the possibility to log the deflection on the terminal by selecting from a predefined code list. In the system, the performance indicators of the person working in deflection mode can then be treated differently (for example, in the way of the salary calculation). In a summary overview, it is possible to monitor the ratio of activities performed in deflection mode. A deflection may be, for example, a slower cycle time of the equipment due to the use of a lower quality tool.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For each operator, the overall production quality can be monitored across all production activities for a selected time period. It is also possible to monitor the quality of production over individual activities and individual work confirmations separately. Quality is expressed as the ratio between the output of quality products and the output of all products. Quality can be further evaluated in the reporting system or sent to Power BI.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: You can track the downtime associated with each operator. This is either downtime on production equipment that occurred while the operator was working, or downtime related only to that person (not related to production equipment, e.g. assembly/completion). The ratio of downtime can be expressed in a graph or pareto evaluation. Downtime can be further evaluated in the reporting system or sent to Power BI.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The machine cycle history is an overview of the cycles performed on machines via selected work order, persons or production tool/mold. The report evaluates the number of cycles, the mean cycle time, the shortest and the longest cycle time for the selected time period. Machine cycles are evaluated separately acrosswork order and operations.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The Total Effective Equipment Performance (TEEP) indicator assesses the efficiency of equipment relative to calendar time (i.e. 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and 365 days per year) over the period under review. Total Effective Equipment Performance is calculated as the product of the Availability and Equipment Efficiency values.

The derived TEEP indicator expresses the losses given by the production management. These losses are mainly caused by downtimes for which production is not planned (single or double shift production, holidays, public holidays…).

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a quantitative indicator of the efficiency of production equipment and provides a measurable comparison of the efficiency of individual production equipment over a monitored period. Equipment Effectiveness is calculated as the product of Utilisation, Performance and Quality values. The efficiency of production equipment can be further evaluated in a reporting system or sent to Power BI.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Availability is defined as the ratio between the scheduled use of the machine according to the working calendar and the total calendar time. The openness of the PHARIS system offers the possibility of user creation of a wide range of work calendars and assigning them to individual machines or workplaces. Within the definition of work calendars it is possible to change working hours, shifts, holidays, define exceptions, etc.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Utilisation, which is part of the OEE evaluation, is defined as the ratio between the actual working time of the machine/workplace (production registrations) and the planned use of the machine according to the assigned working calendar – i.e. the expected running time of the machine/workplace.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The Performance is defined as the ratio of units produced multiplied by the normative cycle time for the production of one unit to the total actual production time of the machine/workplace.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Quality is expressed as the ratio between OK pieces produced and all pieces produced on the machine (OK + NOK).

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) indicator determines the expected time between failures of a given equipment/machine, or the average time without failures over a defined monitoring period. In the case of production equipment/machine, it is calculated as the actual time without failures on the equipment divided by the number of failures. The number of failures is the number of Failure events in the Maintenance module in a given time period.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The Mean Time To Repairs (MTTR) indicator determines the expected value of repair time (the average time it takes to repair or replace a equipment/machine or component) over a defined reporting period. In the case of production equipment/machine, it is calculated as the actual time for all failures and repairs divided by the number of failures and repairs.

The number of failures is the number of events of type Failure in the Maintenance module in a given time period.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The Cycle Time Effectiveness (CTE) indicator gives an overview of how much of the planned period the machine actually ran (production cycle). The Cycle Time Effectiveness is defined as the ratio between the lengths of individual cycles and the planned use of the machine.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Overview and evaluation of equipment downtimes. The system provides an online overview and history of all downtimes (including micro-downtimes) that has taken place on a given machine/workplace. To evaluate downtimes, you can use the pareto downtime overview, downtime graphs or visualization of downtime on the timeline.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The tool for reporting, so called Reporting Services (MS SQL), is integrated in the MES PHARIS system. The system contains predefined reports belonging to different modules of the system. Users can create their own reports (e.g. in the Report Builder) or modify predefined reports. The reports can then be inserted into various locations (pages) in the main system client or in the system’s production client (terminal).

Required modules: Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report with OEE indicators. The OEE Dashboard contains an overview of OEE indicators aggregated over a selected group of machines, as well as reports on OEE indicators for individual machines individually. The report includes an OEE loss analysis (identification of OEE critical areas).

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report with the evolution of OEE indicators over time. In the report, you can define the monitored period, data sampling (hour, shift, day, week, etc.), aggregation function for calculating OEE for a group of machines, variant of the algorithm for calculation, etc.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report with an overview of tool/molds changes by persons (who performed the change), by tools (which were changed), by machines (on which the tool was changed).

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report with a list of work performed by the operator (according to registrations for operations) for the selected period.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report with a list of over-consumption. Over-consumption occurs, for example, during machine setting and it is recorded to the system by the setter.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared data source for the PPH (Pieces Per Hour) report. This is an overview of the pieces produced by machine during each working hour of the day/shift.

Required modules: Data Collection, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared data source for the Hourly Performance report. This is a summary of expected and actual performance at each hour of the day/shift. The report takes into account the different standards when different number of operators work together.

Required modules: Data Collection, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Evaluation and overview of process capability and performance indicators for Statistical Process Control (SPC).

Required modules: Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: There is a pre-built set of data sources available in system. It can be directly used as a data source for BI tools such as Power BI.

This data is used for reporting at a higher level of aggregation, i.e. mainly for creating composite indicators from sub-systems – MES, ERP, WMS, Attendance systems, etc.

Required modules: System Core

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: MES PHARIS supports the customized reports, printing reports and labels. Data sets are available for accessing production data so that it is not necessary to know the structure of the entire database. Unlike data views for BI, these are used to access operational data. In the Reporting services technology, reports can be integrated directly into the PHARIS MES environment, including the operator terminal. Customer reports can also run as a screensaver on the production terminal – e.g. OEE, hourly workplace performance, etc.

Required modules: System Core

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The MES system evaluates on-line the collected technological data from production equipment, peripheral devices, control stations… At the same time, it ensures their historization for traceability.

The data can be stored not only for a machines or tool, but also in the context of a production operation for a specific product, thus contributing to ensure traceability in terms of compliance with technological parameters. Historised values can be further processed (visualised as graphs in Trends) or exported for further processing in external systems.

Required modules: Data Collection, Extended Communication with Machines

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Production definitions are recorded in versions and variants. A change management system (versioning, verification and approval) can be applied to the Production definitions. Changes in Production definitions are logged and traceable in the audittrail module (who, when, from where, original value, new value…).

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: MES PHARIS enables the process management of qualification/training for operators in relation to individual work operations.

The system can record the training of workers for process operations (machine/product/activity). The training level code list is user-editable. The impact on system functionalities can be set for each training level.

It is possible to specify the level of training – e.g. production, production + quality check, etc. It is possible to set an expiry time for each training, usually 6 months from the date the operator last worked on appropriate work order.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system manages the process of qualifying/training operators for work operations. The system helps to prevent production by unqualified operators.

Training can be created by the simultaneous registration of a trainer and an untrained person as an auxiliary operator after a defined training period. Alternatively, a training record can be created in the main MES PHARIS client. The qualification (skill) matrix can be imported from an external system – usually ERP.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: In the system, it is only possible to authorise production (registration for a work order) to those workers who are trained for the operation (machine/product/activity). Depending on the level of training, workers can perform different activities (setup, production, production with restrictions, …). Workers electronically confirm their training record during their first registration.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system can provide comprehensive traceability for each piece that MES PHARIS assigns a unique identifier to.
We usually use a QR or barcode to identify the piece.
For each ID, the system keeps a complete genealogy of the production – i.e. the version of the technological process, equipment, people, technological parameters, controls, input materials, including comprehensive traceability of semi-finished products.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For those pieces marked as unique identification, the system automatically (with the machine cycle) prints identification labels (with piece identification and other additional information). Alternatively, ID labels (QR or barcode) are printed in advance and the operator or machine logically links these labels to the specific product by reading the identifier.

Required modules: Production, Prodction Monitoring, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: We usually use a QR or barcode to mark the piece.
For each ID, the system keeps a complete genealogy of the production – i.e. the version of the technological process, equipment, people, technological parameters, controls, input materials, including comprehensive traceability of the production of semi-finished products.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Overview of the overall history of the work order. Information about all registrations, persons, machines, etc. that have participated in the production of the work order.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: An overview of all production operations associated with a piece marked with a unique identification. For each piece, there is a process and technological information from the production available for that piece. For each piece, information on quality, type of non-conformity, operators, packaging, production cycle, etc. is provided.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: A pre-prepared report with a list of non-conforming pieces that have been produced within the given work confirmations. Identification of types of non-conformities.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report with an overview of the scrap rate for the selected time period.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Overview of the work order overall history. Information about all registrations, persons, machines, etc. that have participated in the production of the work order.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: An overview of all production operations associated with a piece marked with a unique identification. For each piece, process and technological information from the production of that piece is available. For each piece, information on quality, type of non-conformity, operators, packaging, production cycle, etc. is provided.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: One of the tools for quality management is the control plan. The inspection plan alerts the operators (operators, inspectors, setters, …) to the necessity to carry out inspection tasks. The control plan is implemented via the control steps of the operation. The control plan can therefore be set individually for each operation, product or workplace. Each action from the control plan can be notified by means of a notification on the production client (terminal), a system message (internal, email, sms), or on the visualization screen or, for example, by lighting a beacon.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The filling of packaging with products and the subsequent warehouse transfer of packaging depends on the qualification (level of training) of the operator. For example: packages filled with products by less qualified operators go automatically to the 100% control workplace, while packages filled with products by higher qualified operators are moved to the dispatch warehouse, etc. Admin definition of warehouse moves and training levels.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Corrective actions (resulting from customer complaints), are managed and aimed electronically to production personnel via production clients (terminals). When a new registration is made, the operator is notified and he/she has to confirm that he/she is aware of the changes related to the complaint. These notifications are part of the “e-learning” and they are implemented in the MES PHARIS system via the change records of the work operations.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Evaluation and overview of process capability and performance indicators for Statistical Process Control (SPC).

Required modules: Production, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The evaluation of production quality in relation to the product, work order, equipment or operator. The quality evaluation provides information on the number of OK/NOK pieces, type of non-conformity, percentage of NOK pieces, frequency and proportion of types of non-conformity, most common cause of non-conformity, etc. In addition to summary information on production quality, an overview of individual occurrences of NOK pieces (time, person, product, machine, type of non-conformity, …) is also available.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Thanks to the online registration of non-conforming production (manually via the terminal or automatically from machines and inspection stations), the development of production quality can be monitored operatively. On production terminals or visualization screens, the current NOK rate, the trend of rejection rate development, the comparison of the rejection rate of the current shift with the previous shift, etc. can be monitored. In addition, messages can be used to react, for example, to successive non-conformities of the same type that require operational intervention by the setter, etc.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system takes information about non-conforming cycles/pieces from the machine or automatic quality check station. It assigns to them predefined types of non-conformities or non-conformities reported by the machine.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system allows you to run an external application on the production terminal directly from the production client. It is possible to pass predefined parameters to the external application.
For example, the PALSTAT application can be used for SPC evaluation and can be launched from the MES PHARIS terminal with the parameters operator ID or production order.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The operator can initiate a control call from the production client environment, which can be visualized on large screens or used to trigger an alarm (especially for escalation of pending calls). The call can only be terminated from the terminal (this ensures that the person called has actually arrived at the workplace).

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system monitors the exceedance of limit values for the monitored parameters. Limit values can be defined for different parameters and different products individually. Exceedance of limit parameters is visible on the production terminals and in the main client. To the exceeded limits it can be reacted via the automatically triggered alarm.

Required modules: Production, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The material input control functionality is used for monitoring of input components and provides the checking of the correct components in relation to the given work order and work operation. Incorrect or non-entered input is alarmed and, depending on the settings, can even lead to stopping the production equipment. Through this process, production with incorrect input (e.g. material) is prevented and scrap production is avoided.

The loading of input material can be limited by time conditions (e.g. within X minutes after the start of production, always after X pieces have been produced, etc.). If non-compliance occurs, the operator would be alerted, help being summoned, work would be blocked or the machine would be stopped.

Required modules: Production

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The MES PHARIS system includes a wide range of communication drivers for communication with machines, peripherals, control stations, scales, optical gates, etc. For communication, the MES system integrates a set of different communication protocols – e.g. Euromap63, Euromap77, OPC UA, OPC DA, Modbus, Profibus, MTConnect, Printerport, RS232, USB, ETH, Digital cards, Analog cards…

The PHARIS MES system allows to set alarm limits of technological parameters for a specific product (in the context of a work order) for a machine, or a control station or peripheral device.

During production, the actual value is then automatically checked against the set limits. An alarm system can be used to alert the operator if the limits are exceeded.

The process parameters or measurement parameters can be downloaded automatically to the MES system, or manual input by the operator according to predefined control plan rules can be required directly from the production terminal.

Required modules: Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For those tools/molds that has no connectivity with control systems, it is possible to collect the production cycles performed. Automatic cycle counting is mainly used for maintenance purposes.

Required modules: Production, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For those tools/molds that has no connectivity with control systems, it is possible to collect the production hours performed. Automatic working hours counting is mainly used for maintenance purposes.

Required modules: Production, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report with a list of failures and repairs specified in the maintenance requirement worksheets.

Required modules: Maintenance management, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report with history of maintenance reqiurements performed on selected machines or tools/molds.

Required modules: Maintenance Management, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report showing the history of the maintenance requirements. It is based on the worksheets included in maintenance requirements.

Required modules: Maintenance management, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report showing the history of external maintenance orders. It is based on the worksheets included in maintenance requirements.

Required modules: Maintenance Management, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: A maintenance requirement can be set up in the way that a new requirement is automatically created when the previous one is completed, without the user having to re-enter individual maintenance parameters.

Required modules: Maintenance Management

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The mold is stored and monitored in the system throughout its whole lifetime. Thanks to the connection to the machine, cycles are recorded. Cycles can be tracked in terms of mold lifetime or regular maintenance. There can be several maintenance requirements for one mold, each of which can have a different maintenance range set.

Required modules: Maintenance Management, Data Collection

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The mold can be monitored in terms of its location when it is put on or taken off the machine. This gives us an overview of the mold usage in production.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The scheduling of maintenance requirements for machine, mold or tool is implemented by time or number of cycles. A combination of maintenance with both time and cycle count can occur. The requirements are independent of each other.

Required modules: Production, Maintenance Management

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: In case of a machine failure, an ad-hoc maintenance requirement can be created. It can be distinguished from planned maintenance so that it is clear in the overview which request is planned maintenance and which is repair.

Required modules: Maintenance Management

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The frequency of individual interventions, their duration and the occurrence of unexpected repairs – equipment failure rate – can be evaluated in the overview of implemented maintenance requirements.

Requirement modules: Maintenance management

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: If the maintenance activity is performed directly at the machine, which has an assigned production terminal in the system, then this activity could be recorded directly in the production client. The operator can manage all the activities defined for the maintenance and can confirm their execution step by step. The last activity is then the termination of the maintenance requirement, which can be followed by the generation of a new request, in the case of automatically generated maintenance.

Potřebné moduly: Production, Maintenance Management

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The generated maintenance requirements can be displayed in a table, which can then be sorted by time resolution. This way we can see which maintenance requirement is due in the coming days and weeks. This allows us to better prepare and plan individual activities.

Required modules: Maintenance management

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: For each maintenance requirement, you can set an alert for upcoming maintenance. For requests scheduled over time, this is the time, for requests scheduled based on the number of cycles, this is the number of cycles before the scheduled maintenance. As a rule, notifications of upcoming maintenance are sent by e-mail to the address of the responsible person.

Required modules: Maintenance management

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: By using the filter on the selected device, all planned and unplanned maintenance requirements can be tracked in a single, clear table from which the user can view each requirement in detail. By analysing the individual records, a decision can be made, for example, to change the maintenance interval or to modify the technological procedure.

Required modules: Maintenance Management

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Maintenance activities can be evaluated in terms of time consumption. Using standardised and actual time, the efficiency of individual setters can be evaluated. This can be one of the evaluation parameters of work efficiency.

Required modules: Maintenance Management, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: PHARIS offers the possibility to perform several types of maintenance on one machine. For example, maintenance of mechanical, electrical or pneumatic components. Another distinction can be e.g. small, large and general maintenance control. Each maintenance has its own specifics, including time or cycle resolution. The individual requirements are completely autonomous, but can also be adjusted depending on the current state of the machine.

Required modules: Maintenance Management

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The registration of packaging and pallet units is based on packaging prescriptions, which are part of the TPV (Technological Preparation of Production). Packaging prescriptions are assigned to individual products.

Packaging can be filled automatically or manually.

Records of packaging and pallet units with a link to production ensure traceability of production (traceability of product data).

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system automatically alerts you to print the label when the packaging unit or pallet is filled. Ideally, the operator prints the labels on a local printer at the workplace, or central printers can be used, but there is a risk of label mix-ups.

In the case of a fully manual workplace, e.g. assembly or picking, the label printing is initiated directly by the operator.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The PHARIS system enables automatic generation of number series for packaging and pallet units. The system also offers the possibility of using pre-generated number series (pre-printed labels).

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: In the system, it is possible to set up the stacking of packaging or pallet units with manufactured pieces. This can be done fully automatically, for example with label printing. The stacking information is sent to the ERP/WMS system.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: In the system, it is possible to set up the stacking of packaging or pallet units with manufactured pieces. o can also be done manually, most often using the PHARIS mobile mini-client (an android client usually running on a PDA or mobile phone). The stacking information is sent to the ERP/WMS system.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: MES PHARIS enables the systemic refilling of incomplete packaging units. This is also possible on the basis of another work order, which is issued for the same product.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: To ensure traceability, the system enables the management of the “repackaging” process – i.e. the controlled movement of products between packaging units. The functionality is available on the android mobile PHARIS miniclient.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: To ensure traceability, the system also offers the possibility of controlled transfer of packaging units between pallets. The functionality is available on the android mobile PHARIS miniclient.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The system offers support for moving packaging or pallet units between warehouses. The transfer is usually initiated via the PHARIS mobile miniclient.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The PHARIS system has a stored image (data print) of warehouses and stock of materials imported from the warehouse management system (WMS, ERP).

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: The material removal (retrieval) is enable to be set in the system. This can be done fully automatically – e.g. with work input to the ERP system or WMS, or manually, most often using the mobile mini-client PHARIS (an android client usually running on a PDA or mobile phone).

During material removal (retrieval) it is possible to take into account normative material consumption, input components, over-consumption, manually entered consumption by operators…

The MES system allows to pick specific batches of materials that have been loaded at the start of the production operation.

Required modules: Production, Production Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: A system for managing the transport of materials between production workplaces and warehouses. Material handling requirements are created digitally. Production operators, handlers and warehousemen have an overview of the current status of material requirements using production terminals, desktop computers or tablets. The operator enters requests on the production terminal for the shipment of input material to the current production or to the next production. The operator can use the production client to monitor the status of all material requests to his/her workplace/machine.

Required modules: Production, Material Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: A system for managing the transport of materials between production workplaces and warehouses. Material handling requirements are created digitally. Production operators, handlers and warehousemen have an overview of the current status of material requirements using production terminals, desktop computers or tablets. The operator enters requests at the production terminal for the removal of manufactured products, non-conforming pieces, waste, materials for recycling, … The operator can monitor the status of all material removal requests from his/her workplace/machine using the production client.

Required modules: Production, Material Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: A system for managing the transport of materials between production workplaces and warehouses. Material handling requirements are created digitally. Production operators, handlers and warehousemen have an overview of the current status of material requirements using production terminals, desktop computers or tablets. The warehouseman processes material requirements. He removes the requested material (adjusts the quantity to be dispensed, confirms the removal, prints identification labels) and delivers the material to the specified dispensing point.

Required modules: Production, Material Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: A system for managing the transport of materials between production workplaces and warehouses. Material handling requirements are created digitally. Production operators, handlers and warehousemen have an overview of the current status of material requirements using production terminals, desktop computers or tablets.
Manipulators in the system monitor the materials ready to be loaded to the machine at the dispensing point. The picked and loaded material is checked and assigned to a given handler. Once the material has been delivered to the designated machine, the correct delivery is confirmed by reading the material and the machine.

Required modules: Production, Material Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: A system for managing the transport of materials between production workplaces and warehouses. Material handling requirements are created digitally. Production operators, handlers and warehousemen have an overview of the current status of material requirements using production terminals, desktop computers or tablets.
Manipulators in the system monitor the materials ready to be taken away from the machine. These can be manufactured products, mismatched pieces, waste, materials to be recycled, etc. By retrieving the material, it is processed and recorded for removal from the machine.

Required modules: Production, Material Logistics

Standard in versions: PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE

Description: Pre-prepared report serving as a print template for printing paper production waybills. As part of the digitisation of production, paper waybills are often reduced to the form of a “barcode carrier”. The barcodes are then used to quickly and accurately identify a work order, operation, etc.

Required modules: Production, Production Monitoring

Standard in versions: PHARIS EXPRESS, PHARIS PROFESSIONAL, PHARIS ULTIMATE