The Light-MES

Transparency on the Shop Floor

Potential in numbers (indicative values)

Up to31% cost savings through the elimination of inefficiencies and improved resource utilization

Up to21% efficiency increase enabled by transparent, digitally supported processes

Up to10% productivity increase through faster workflows and better decision-making in manufacturing

When the order moves to the shop floor, transparency is often lost.

Many manufacturing companies plan efficiently in their ERP systems, yet on the shop floor paper-based job tickets, media disruptions, and incomplete feedback still prevail. As a result, they find out too late where order X stands, bottlenecks are only identified when deadlines start to slip, and customers receive no reliable information.

This is exactly where the Light MES comes in: providing digital transparency directly at the machines for greater planning reliability, less downtime, and higher on-time delivery performance.

The Light MES: Your Manufacturing Execution System for flexible processes

Our Light MES (Manufacturing Execution System) closes the digital gap between production planning and manufacturing. Instead of forcing your operations into a rigid system, the Light MES adapts to your real production workflows – providing real-time status, precise data capture, and role-specific dashboards.

Your benefits with the Light MES in manufacturing

Maximum flexibility: The Light MES adapts to your manufacturing processes—not the other way around. Track the actual path a product takes through your production.
Real-time transparency: See at any time where each order is and how far processing has progressed—without speculation or manual follow-ups.
Precise data capture: Record setup and production times down to the minute—as a reliable basis for accurate costing and continuous improvement.
Early warning system for bottlenecks: The Light MES identifies risks (e.g. material shortages or delays) at an early stage—so you can take proactive countermeasures.
Transparent progress: Your team—and, if desired, your customers—can view production progress through clear, easy-to-understand status views.
Data-driven process optimization: Use real production data to improve master data, reduce lead times, and stabilize your manufacturing processes in the long term.
Machine utilization at a glance: Monitor utilization, availability, and reservations for every machine in real time.
Station-level shop floor views: Instantly see which orders are waiting, in progress, or completed at each workstation.
Historical analyses: Identify patterns, root causes, and trends—as a foundation for capacity planning and investment decisions.
End-to-end digital workflows: Reduce media disruptions and data silos through consistent feedback from the shop floor to production planning.
Dashboards for everyone: Visualize order progress and KPIs for the entire team—on large screens, laptops, or mobile devices.

The intuitive overview and informative diagrams were immediately convincing. A real added value for our production!
Lukas Müller, Work Preparation at Bucher Hydraulics Remscheid GmbH

Why the Light-MES? Key benefits at a glance

Process fit instead of forced standardization: The Light MES adapts to your workflows—ideal for high-variant manufacturing.
Greater efficiency: Close the gap between planning and execution and eliminate time-consuming inefficiencies.
Lower costs: Optimized processes and improved resource utilization lead to measurable savings.
Higher productivity: Faster workflows, clear priorities, and less downtime thanks to real-time information.
Improved on-time delivery: Provide precise delivery dates—and keep them.
Faster response times: React flexibly to disruptions, customer requests, and changing priorities.
Foundation for lean management: Real-time data creates transparency for continuous improvement.
Facts instead of gut feeling: Make data-driven decisions—live and fully traceable.
Regain valuable time: Automate manual feedback and reduce administrative effort.

Ready for more transparency on the shop floor?

Schedule a demo now and see how the Light MES by Bertrandt brings together order tracking, machine utilization, and KPIs in real time—for higher on-time delivery performance and future-proof production.

Global Production Dashboard: Central overview of orders, schedules, and machines
Das Dashboard bietet eine standortübergreifende, rollenspezifische Echtzeit-Übersicht über Aufträge, Fertigungsfortschritt und Maschinenbelegung, macht Risiken wie Ausschuss, Verzögerungen oder drohende Terminüberschreitungen früh sichtbar und verbessert so Kommunikation sowie Reaktionsfähigkeit für Werker, Arbeitsvorbereitung/Koordination und Vertrieb – mobil, am Laptop oder auf Großbildschirmen.
Order Overview: Plan, prioritize, and manage the work backlog effectively
The work backlog is the central planning and control view for production planning, providing a clear, color-coded list of all orders including delivery dates, durations, and statuses. It can be flexibly sorted, making prioritization easier, reducing onboarding time, and minimizing idle time.
Machine & Resource Overview (Control Center): Real-time shop floor control
The station view is your interactive control center, presenting machines, stations, and resources in real time on an order-specific basis—including color-coded statuses (available, occupied, reserved, maintenance, defective). It enables detailed drill-downs and mobile reporting, helping to reduce downtime and improve communication and transparency across production planning and manufacturing.
Operator Cockpit: Report status, start tasks, ensure quality
The action page is the operator cockpit at the workstation, enabling employees to start orders quickly and in a standardized way using freely configurable buttons, and to provide processing and (partial) completion feedback. This automatically updates the station status in real time, ensures transparency of upcoming orders, and significantly improves material flow and productivity through clear, guided processes.
Order Details: All information directly at the workstation
The order detail page consolidates all relevant information—stations, part numbers, status, steps, and progress including partial completion and scrap reports. This enables operators to process orders precisely and transparently, while allowing shop floor teams to respond faster and in a data-driven manner.
Performance Cockpit: Analysis of utilization, downtime, and setup times
The station analytics view is your performance cockpit, making bottlenecks and improvement potential visible through clear visualizations, enabling targeted analysis of downtime, setup times, and productivity, and supporting capacity planning, investment decisions, and the continuous improvement of your manufacturing performance.
Overall Order Status: Early warning system for on-time delivery and deadline management
The production planning order view provides your operations planning team with clear KPIs for open, in-progress, and completed orders, and immediately highlights bottlenecks through integrated delay notifications (e.g. material shortages), including responsible owners, comments, and processing status—enabling data-driven control, higher on-time delivery, and stress-free planning.
Event Analysis: Live log for traceability and process improvement
The event view logs all relevant actions on the shop floor—forming the basis for quality assurance and process optimization. From “report processing” and “(partial) completion reports” to “scrap reports,” every action is captured and can be transparently analyzed through evaluations.
Scrap Analysis: Identify causes, improve quality, reduce costs
The scrap analysis supports your quality management by systematically capturing scrap reasons and analyzing them by cause and time period (shift, week, month). This makes trends and key sources of defects immediately visible.

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Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Bertrandt's Light MES solution

1. What is Bertrandt's Light MES solution?

Our Light MES solution is a flexible, lightweight manufacturing execution system that has been specially developed to create transparency and control in production. It focuses on essential functions such as traceability, inventory management, and the collection of reliable real-time data directly from the machines.

2. Who is the Light MES solution suitable for?

The solution is aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises and production areas that are looking for a lean, intuitive, and quickly implementable MES solution—without the effort and complexity of large IT projects.

3. How quickly can the Light MES solution be implemented?

Thanks to its modular and flexible design, our Light MES solution can be up and running in no time. This allows you to quickly benefit from greater transparency and efficiency in production.