AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLY CHAIN
Where traceability is a contract term, not a goal
Supplying an automotive OEM means meeting requirements that most manufacturing never faces. Lot traceability is contractual. IATF 16949 shapes how you document, measure and correct. A customer complaint arrives with an expectation of a fast, evidenced answer, and a containment decision that is only as good as the records behind it. Meanwhile margins are tight enough that scrap and unplanned downtime matter to the month, not just the year.
What these plants are up against
Traceability you can prove
Not just "we record batches" but a genealogy chain that survives an auditor pulling on it, with process conditions attached to the unit rather than the shift.
Fast, bounded containment
When something is wrong, the cost is decided by how precisely you can identify what is affected. Broad containment is expensive; precise containment needs unit-level records.
OEE that reflects reality
Availability, performance and quality measured honestly and continuously, rather than reconstructed from shift reports after the fact.
Group reporting that matches the floor
Numbers reported upward should be the same numbers the plant runs on — not a separate spreadsheet assembled monthly by hand.
IATF 16949 and customer-specific requirements
Our MES captures the traceability and quality record as production happens, so the documentation an audit asks for already exists rather than being assembled in response. Process parameters, measurements against specification, and genealogy links are written against each unit continuously, and are queryable and exportable in the formats your customers expect.
How we help
MES for Manufacturing
Live production tracking, OEE, downtime, quality and traceability - read directly from your machines.
LEARN MORETraceability & Genealogy
Every unit tracked with its parameters and history, so an audit is answered from the system in seconds.
LEARN MOREIndustrial AI
Predictive maintenance, visual inspection and process optimisation, grounded in the physics of the process.
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Tell us about your process and your systems. We will tell you how we would approach it.