FactoryLogix
1 Review 2/5 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★A manufacturing execution system that supports lean materials management, adaptive planning, and traceability.
Product Overview
FactoryLogix is an MES software known for its strong capabilities in traceability, work-in-progress (WIP) tracking, and quality metrics. The system helps reduce waste through lean materials management and also features live scheduling and capacity planning.
This MES offers paperless document control and integrates effectively with various types of automated build and test devices. The software can also provide real-time data and automated reports like WIP tracking, root cause analysis, and production yield.
Pros
- Offers real-time WIP tracking and traceability
- Includes quality metrics reporting
Cons
- High initial costs
- Learning curve for new users
Target Market
Manufacturing businesses with at least 50 employees, especially in the defense and aerospace, consumer goods, and electrical/electronic manufacturing sectors.Not Recommended For
Small businesses or startups due to its high initial cost and complexity, and for those who do not require the in-depth manufacturing functionalities it offers.Video Overview
Features
- Digital manufacturing engineering
- Manufacturing process execution
- RMA/MRO
- Adaptive planning
- Quality management
- Regulatory and customer compliance
- Lean materials management
- Manufacturing intelligence
FactoryLogix Modules
- NPI: Controlled production preparation even for large groups of engineers working in tandem.
- Logistics: Optimize and assure material flow and monitoring from the warehouse to the lines and back.
- Production: Paperless process execution, WIP tracking, routing control, quality, and test data collection/analysis.
- Analytics: User-configured reports, real-time dashboards, operations dashboards, and mobile analytics.
- Integration: Service-oriented architecture for third-party user interfaces and bridges to other software systems.
- Devices: Line terminals, and handheld / fixed-mount scanners for fail-safe process interlocking and alarming.
User Reviews of FactoryLogix
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Factory Logix makes an attempt to help EMS providers streamline their shop floor processes and create and host documents through one easy to use interface, but it typically does not work well in our factory. As a process engineer that has had to deal with implementation of the system as well as authoring the processes inside the system. I am well versed in the shortcomings of the Factory Logix system. The interface for writing work instructions is terrible and revision control to that level of the instruction is almost no existent. Through the two year that we have had the system in place. I have seen a myriad of bugs in the system. for the first year it was one work-around after another. We have been so busy trying to get the processes under control here we haven’t even turned on other functionality. I am fearful to do this as well since Factory Logix approach is that of a walled garden. In the future when my company changes direction in their instructions and accompanying software there will be no way to get the data out of this system and we will have no choice to start from scratch.
IF…IF your customer gives you the ECAD model for the board and IF…IF. the CAD is perfect it can help you realize your instructions easier. If you are stuck with Gerber files the process is not as easy.
The system has a lot of bugs in it. Its unfair to say that here since its not really a feature of the system. the fact that we are locked into this system for ever with all of our processes is probably my least favorite thing about the Factory Logix Suite
