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Bakery Factory System MES ERP

Example business Bakery and snacks factory · United Kingdom

One system for a bakery factory: ERP, MES, SCADA/HMI, CRM, WMS, CMMS and QMS on one set of records. Three lines run live, and every order is checked day by day against what each line can make.

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Bakery Factory System MES ERP demo screen: Bakery Factory System MES ERP

Sound familiar?

The problems this Bakery Factory System MES ERP ends

The problem

Sales promise orders the lines cannot make in time.

What changes

Every order is checked day by day against what each line can make. A refusal names the earliest day it can go.

The problem

A batch with a failed check nearly goes out on a truck.

What changes

A failed check holds the batch by itself. Its pallets and its truck wait until quality records the fix and releases it.

The problem

Nobody knows where an order is without ringing the floor.

What changes

Each order shows where it stands in all seven systems: its batch, any hold, its pallets, its truck and the customer's messages.

What you get

What this Bakery Factory System MES ERP does for you

Seven systems, one set of records

ERP, MES, SCADA/HMI, CRM, WMS, CMMS and QMS. Every screen says which one it is in and which team it is for.

The plant floor, live

Three lines and every machine, with live readings, alarms and what a stop is costing a minute.

Every order checked by the day

Orders, promotions and forecasts are checked against each line, the ingredients, the crew and the dock slots.

Food safety built in

Checks, the food-safety plan, hygiene, lab tests, and trace and recall, with batches held until every check is in.

About the system

What it is, and who it is for

One system runs the whole bakery: the office, the plant floor and quality. Seven parts, each with its own screens and its own team, share one set of records.

So a change in one shows in the others the same minute. A held batch blocks its truck, and the customer's order says why.

The machines in the demo are simulated. In a factory, the same screens read the machines through their own controllers.

  • ERP

    Enterprise resource planning

    Orders, forecast and promotions, plan, buying, suppliers, dispatch and money

    Planning, sales, stores and managers

  • MES

    Manufacturing execution system

    Plant floor, 3D floor, lines, weighing, batches, people, instructions and analytics

    Floor team

  • SCADA/HMI

    Supervisory control and data acquisition, and the machine screens

    Machine connections, machine panels, alarms, energy meters and line TVs

    Floor and engineering

  • CRM

    Customer relationship management

    Enquiries, calls, WhatsApp, customers and complaints

    Sales team

  • WMS

    Warehouse management system

    Stores: the warehouse map, put-away and every move

    Stores team

  • CMMS

    Computerised maintenance management system

    Jobs, planned services, spare parts, tools and equipment

    Engineering team

  • QMS

    Quality management system

    Checks, food-safety plan, hygiene, recipes and labels, lab, trace and recall, and safety

    Quality team

Diagrams

How it fits together

From the office to the sensor
  1. Level 4

    The business

    Orders, customers, money, people

    This system: ERP and CRM

  2. Level 3

    Production

    Plan, batches, checks, quality, maintenance, stores, trace

    This system: MES, with QMS, CMMS and WMS

  3. Level 2

    Floor screens

    Machine panels, alarms, line TVs, the checks tablet

    This system: SCADA/HMI. It reads the levels below; set points go down only after approval

  4. Level 1

    Controllers

    The PLC in each machine, the scales, the printers

    OPC UA, EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP, MQTT

  5. Level 0

    Sensors and actuators

    Probes, load cells, detector heads, clip-on sensors, valves, motors

    Wired to their controller, or wireless

This system, on one set of recordsThe machines and sensors it reads

One order, every system
  1. CRM

    Enquiry won

    From any door: the website, WhatsApp or the phone.

  2. ERP

    Order checked

    Against each line, day by day, before anyone says yes.

  3. ERP

    Run planned

    In an allergen-safe order.

  4. MES

    Weighed and made

    Each lot scanned onto the batch record.

  5. SCADA/HMI

    Machines watched

    Readings and alarms, live.

  6. CMMS

    Line kept running

    A fault becomes a job in one tap.

  7. QMS

    Checked and released

    A failed check holds the batch.

  8. WMS

    Pallets stored

    Labelled and put away.

  9. ERP

    Truck loaded

    In its dock slot, every pallet scanned.

Screens

See the screens

Taken from the live demo. Every one is a screen you can click through today.

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The plant floor, live: three lines, every machine, and what a stop is costing.
MESThe plant floor, live: three lines, every machine, and what a stop is costing.
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One order in all seven systems: its batch, its hold, its pallets, its truck and its messages.
ERPOne order in all seven systems: its batch, its hold, its pallets, its truck and its messages.
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A machine panel: live readings against their limits, and set points that need a supervisor past the safe band.
SCADA/HMIA machine panel: live readings against their limits, and set points that need a supervisor past the safe band.
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The whole site in 3D, live, drawn from the same records.
MESThe whole site in 3D, live, drawn from the same records.
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The food-safety plan: its control points, their limits and today's records.
QMSThe food-safety plan: its control points, their limits and today's records.
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The warehouse map: every pallet space, the nut bay, the chillers and the quarantine cage.
WMSThe warehouse map: every pallet space, the nut bay, the chillers and the quarantine cage.
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Engineers' jobs, planned services and spare parts, by machine.
CMMSEngineers' jobs, planned services and spare parts, by machine.
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Every enquiry from every door, until it is won or lost.
CRMEvery enquiry from every door, until it is won or lost.

Charts

The charts it draws, live

OEE by line, shift and day.
MESOEE by line, shift and day.
Each line's load for the next eight weeks, and the trucks against the dock slots.
ERPEach line's load for the next eight weeks, and the trucks against the dock slots.
The top reasons lines stopped, worst first.
MESThe top reasons lines stopped, worst first.
A bearing's vibration rising, and the days left before it needs work.
CMMSA bearing's vibration rising, and the days left before it needs work.

Inside the demo

Bakery Factory System MES ERP features you can try

14 things you can click through today, in plain words. Yours can have all of them, or only the ones you need.

  • One order, seven systems

    Each order shows its batch, any hold, its pallets, its truck, open jobs on its line and the customer's messages, one tap each.

  • The whole site in 3D

    Every machine and light tower, the silos, the warehouse and the docks, live in 3D.

  • Machine connections, live

    How every machine links to the system, its controller and protocol, and what the floor sees when a link drops.

  • Weighing at the mixer

    Scan the ingredient lot and weigh to the recipe. Each weight goes onto the batch record.

  • Promotions checked before agreeing

    Eight weeks of demand, with each promotion checked against the lines. One that loses money is refused, with the break-even shown.

  • Warehouse map and put-away

    Every pallet space, the quarantine cage and the silos. A tanker is only ordered when a silo has room for all of it.

  • Dock slots and pallet labels

    Each truck books a dock slot. Pallets get barcode labels and are scanned onto the trailer one by one.

  • Maintenance jobs and spare parts

    A fault becomes a job in one tap. A machine locked off for a job keeps its line stopped until the lock comes off.

  • Food-safety plan, signed off

    The critical control points, their limits and today's records, signed off by quality.

  • Trace and recall in one click

    From an ingredient lot to every batch, pallet and customer, or back from a complaint.

  • Recipes, allergens and labels

    Each product's recipe, allergens, nutrition and label, checked for each market it sells in.

  • Crew, training and holidays ahead

    Who is on each shift for eight weeks, whose training runs out, and who covers a holiday.

  • Energy in every pack

    Power, gas, air and water meters, live, and the energy that went into each pack.

  • Enquiries, WhatsApp and calls

    Every enquiry from every door until it is won or lost. Missed calls stay on the list until someone returns them.

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Compatibility

What it works with

As the demo shows it. Yours connects to what you already have, agreed in the written plan.

Machine controllers

  • Siemens S7-1200 and S7-1500
  • Omron NX1P and NJ501
  • Allen-Bradley CompactLogix
  • A machine's own controller: coders, metal detectors, checkweighers

How machines connect

  • OPC UA
  • EtherNet/IP
  • Modbus TCP
  • MQTT
  • Clip-on current sensors for old machines

Sensors

  • Radar level sensors on the silos
  • Wireless temperature sensors in the cold rooms
  • Vibration and temperature sensors on motors
  • Power, gas, air and water meters

Orders, codes and records

  • Supermarket orders by EDI (EDIFACT)
  • GS1 product barcodes
  • SSCC pallet labels
  • Every record as a spreadsheet

Screens and devices

  • Any web browser on a PC, tablet or phone
  • Line TVs on the floor
  • Tablets for checks, used in gloves
  • Rugged handhelds at the docks

What it may change on a machine

  • Set points only, and past the safe band only with a supervisor
  • Never a safety signal
  • Every change logged

Hardware

The hardware on the floor

  • Weigh station scales

    One at each mixer. Scan the lot, weigh to the recipe, and each weight lands on the batch record.

    Ethernet
  • Barcode scanners

    Read the lot labels at the weigh stations, so the right ingredient goes in.

    USB
  • Rugged handhelds

    Scan every pallet onto the trailer at the docks.

    Wi-Fi
  • Pallet label printers

    One at the end of each line, printing each pallet's SSCC label.

    Ethernet
  • Metal detectors and checkweighers

    Each test is timed. A failed metal test stops the line and holds the batch by itself.

    Own controller
  • Line TVs

    Each line's hour-by-hour count, with the next food-safety check counting down.

    Browser
  • Vibration sensors

    On motor bearings and gearboxes. A rising trend warns days before a part needs work.

  • Clip-on current sensors

    Read old machines with no controller, such as compressors and washers, so their hours count too.

    LoRaWAN
  • Silo level radars

    Show how full each silo is, so a tanker is only ordered when there is room for it.

    Modbus TCP
  • Cold-room temperature sensors

    Wireless sensors in each cold room, read live.

    LoRaWAN
  • Energy meters

    Power, gas, compressed air and water, live, and the energy in every pack.

  • Clean-in-place washes

    Each wash records its temperatures and strength. A failed wash is run again before the equipment is released.

Records

What it keeps, and for how long

In your system. The demo keeps nothing: reloading it starts the shift again.

WhatKept forWhy
Every reading, every second90 daysThe trends, and looking back at a fault.
One-minute averages3 yearsComparing this year with last.
Batch records, checks and corrective actions3 yearsLonger than any product's shelf life, for audits and recalls.
Alarms, set-point changes and approvals3 yearsWho changed what, and who allowed it.
The activity recordFor goodNobody can edit or delete an entry.
Machine programsEvery versionPutting a machine back as it was.

Operationally accurate

The rules this Bakery Factory System MES ERP keeps

  1. 01

    Orders checked by the day

    An order is refused when no line can make it in time, and the refusal names the earliest day it can go.

  2. 02

    Nothing loads while on hold

    A batch with a food-safety check out of limit cannot be released, so its truck cannot load until quality signs it off.

  3. 03

    Allergen-safe running order

    The plan will not run a nut-free product straight after a nut product on the same line.

  4. 04

    Training before the task

    A metal-detector test or a jam clear is refused from someone whose training for it has run out.

From this demo to your system

How we build yours

Same idea, shaped around your business: your stages, your words, your rules.

  1. 01

    Tell us how you work

    A short call about your business, your rules and the tools you use today. You get a free quote.

  2. 02

    See the plan before any code

    A written plan of every screen and rule, so you know exactly what you are getting.

  3. 03

    Click through it every two weeks

    A working demo of your own system, like this one, so you can steer it as it grows.

  4. 04

    Go live, and own it

    Most systems are live in 6 to 12 weeks. Once it is paid for, the code is yours, and our yearly AMC keeps it running, with free patent-pending AI governance included.

Get a free quote

Questions

What people ask before they start

We make ready meals, not bread. Will it fit?

Yes. Any food factory with lines, batches and allergen checks fits. We build yours around your own products, lines and rules.

Can it connect to the machines we already have?

The demo shows the common ways machines connect, such as OPC UA and Modbus. We agree exactly what connects in the written plan.

Do we have to take all seven systems?

No. Start with the parts you need, such as the plant floor and quality, and add the rest later on the same records.

How long does it take, and who owns it?

Most systems go live in 6 to 12 weeks. Once it is paid for, the code is yours, and our yearly AMC keeps it running.

Built into every system

  • AI governed by SCRS

    Where a system uses AI, the patent-pending firewall swaps client details for tokens before any model reads them.

  • Nothing sends itself

    The system drafts, and a named person releases every message.

  • Every action logged

    Refusals, overrides and exports land in a log nobody can quietly edit.

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