M-Box is a Microsoft Azure-based IoT platform for SME manufacturers with limited budgets or IT manpower to implement IoT quickly and successfully.
Job Management Software with unbiased data from the Shop-Floor is essential in the transformation process to operate in a LEAN-manufacturing style and cut cost across the board through efficiency improvement, while improving production lead-times and project durations
What is the status of the Job and when will it be completed?
Who is doing what and on which work station?
Quantity and location of all your raw materials and (semi) finished products.
When was this product made, by whom, and on which workstation? Which materials were used? Who did the QC?
Access data via dashboard on the M-Box platform for desktop or mobile device. Transparency with Andon-style floorplans on big screens.
Manage (Production) Jobs and (Project) Tasks on intuitive Kanban boards.
Customized reports;
Customized API’s connect with ERP systems.
It is easy to get started with the system. Quickly set up the company details in the intuitive portal, print your current barcodes or the codes that the system automatically generates for you, and let your operators scan on their smartphones with the M-Box App installed.
Remark: In case of multi-step productions, the system automatically generates all jobs in the sequence (with their component requirements) when a production order is created.
Allocate consumable items to workstations.
Get started in a whiff. Simply set up your portal, print codes and get the basic functionality working. Once familiarized, consider including job scheduling, project management and inventory functionalities.
Your portals dashboard already displays data:
Employees on the shop floor and warehouse carry a smartphone with the M-Box application installed, and scan with the phone camera or Bluetooth-connected barcode scanner.
Work stations and warehouse locations are labelled with their unique bar-code or QR-code
individual item codes or production batch codes, carton codes