ION OPERATING SYSTEM (OS) PLATFORM
MODERN FACTORIES RELY ON OPERATING SYSTEMS, NOT OUTDATED MES PLATFORMS.
Increase the speed of delivery and iterate in parallel to gain a competitive edge. ION improves timelier decisions by enabling real-time insights from your factory floor's data. Simplify processes for technicians with visual guided work plans, and step-by-step instructions. Leverage our flexible API to integrate ION with your existing systems for exponential productivity gains.
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WELCOME TO MANUFACTURING 4.0 SOFTWARE
The ION OS Platform was developed with a focus on making it easy to connect the engineers designing hardware with the technicians building hardware. We aim to solve the old-age misalignment between design engineering and manufacturing operators by bringing them closer together for tighter collaboration during the process.
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KEY CAPABILITIES
Execute faster, plan better, forecast with precision, ensure quality, and increase visibility into your factory’s performance with a modern Cloud MES.
- Optimize collaboration: Open up communication between the engineering team and the technicians responsible for the build. Set up step-by-step visualizations for every stage of the process. Empower operators to tag engineers with feedback and suggest adjustments in real time through ping notifications.
- Optimize resources: MES automation empowers automated planning for data-backed assurance that you have everything you need for flawless execution before you begin building. Enter your delivery date and use backward scheduling to identify when to place your orders with suppliers and line up the labor resources you'll need. Let the data tell you which steps you can do in parallel and which ones need to be serialized because of dependencies.
- Optimize iterations: Make improvements while you build by updating work instructions in real-time across the production floor. Is there a better tool for that step in the process? An engineer is instantly notified of the suggestion and can update the instructions swiftly. Easily uncover bottlenecks and waste across every work center and supply chain node.
- Optimize outcomes: Use objective data to align teams around key outcomes to measure progress and gain confidence that you're going to make delivery deadlines and maintain profitability.
ION IS MORE THAN AN MES SOLUTION
Legacy systems inhibit the flow of information, while manual data collection and limited communication between departments slow everything down. Without a clear insight into your factory floor, it’s difficult to identify problems promptly, leading to production delays, inefficiencies, and potential quality issues.
A modern MES platform acts as a powerful light source, illuminating the entire factory floor. Real-time data becomes the key. Machine statuses, inventory levels, and production progress are constantly monitored, providing a clear picture of what's happening on the ground.
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INCREASE COLLABORATION
Define, describe, and visualize complex processes so your technicians can build more efficiently. Increase collaboration between assembly and engineering so you can iterate as you go with confidence that every adjustment has been captured in real time with robust and detailed version control.
AUTOMATE THE PLANNING PROCESS
Automate the manual tasks involved with monitoring inventory, scheduling, and assessing supply chain needs. Automatically generate work orders and purchase orders and allocate resources to meet demand to eliminate wasted time, materials, and resources. Consider ION your MES and manufacturing inventory software all in one.
OPERATIONS ANALYSIS
Identify root causes impacting slow production rates, quality concerns, and escalating costs. Understand downtime at a high level or dig in to get granular on what's causing delays and setbacks. Understand the complete cost of your finished build (ABOM), from the parts and labor to everything in between, and gain a full picture of your ROI.
AS BUILT-TRACEABILITY
Track every single activity across the product lifecycle from who worked on the build, when they worked on it, which tools were used, and which vendor's parts down to the serial number ended up in the ABOM. From supply chain to operation and service, get full visibility to respond more efficiently address recalls, defects, and more with built-in manufacturing traceability software.
REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION
When you're building complex hardware, engineering needs to know right away if there's an issue during the assembly process, and ION OS makes it possible for the technician to submit questions, add digital notes, and raise concerns as they go.
DATA-BACKED DECISIONS
Make ION your single source of truth when it comes to monitoring the data being generated across your facilities. Get out-of-the-box reporting plus the ability to fully customize the metrics you want to see. Continuously collect, analyze, and customize data from all data points across the whole product life cycle to identify cost-saving strategies, eliminate waste, and increase your bottom line.
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ION IS FAST AND EASY TO IMPLEMENT
In just 30 minutes, you can produce a complete set of work instructions and begin collecting accurate factory floor data the same day. Starting operations sooner translates to the power of making intelligent decisions faster and higher quality hardware.
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HOW ION COMPARES TO SOLUTIONS OF THE PAST
This holistic approach allows hardware manufacturers to gain a deeper understanding of their operations, identify areas for improvement, and optimize production for greater efficiency and quality.
MAKE ION FACTORY OS THE HEARTBEAT OF YOUR FACTORY.
Highly customizable, flexible, and extensible, ION is a modular MES platform that molds to complex manufacturing environments and evolves with your business to help achieve long-term success.
Understanding the crucial role engineers play in the manufacturing process, ION is designed with your needs in mind. The intuitive interface and powerful features offer engineers the tools you need to effectively translate designs into easy to understand instructions and tangible products.
