PLUS - The Manufacturing Execution System for your Smart Factory

Companies in discrete manufacturing are constantly faced with new challenges. In particular, the focus is on improving products with shorter innovation cycles at lower costs and higher quality. The increasing range of variants and product complexity is often accompanied by a growing number of different system landscapes, resulting in a rapid increase in costs.

With our Manufacturing Execution System (MES) PLUS, we offer you a product for the holistic control of your production processes while simultaneously reducing your production complexity. Instead of having to operate and maintain countless systems within your production, with PLUS you can helps to map the entire production control in just one system - across plants and globally. Our MES optimizes order control, thus forming the central nervous system of the customer order process.

This is how your production benefits from PLUS

  • Increased efficiency thanks to an integral high-availability solution
  • Reduced complexity and cost savings
  • High performance thanks to HPE NonStop or SAP base
  • Sustainability through paperless factory
  • Continuous collection of quality data and rework control

PLUS controls the entire order-related production process - from order picking and pre-processing to assembly and finally the smooth handover to logistics. The use of flexible and event-driven workflows enables fully automated production control, data collection, recognition and distribution as well as reactions to special events in your production.

We use abat as our production control system for our INEOS plant in Hambach and turn to abat and HPE as our partners for the realization and support. Our target was a modern, digital and Industry 4.0 production. As a result, we reached our target:  we have increased flexibility, created stability and increased efficiency in production

Pierre Lempereur, responsible for IT Manufacturing systems in INEOS Grenadier vehicle production plant Hambach

The most important features of PLUS by abat

Modular system

With PLUS, agile and flexible production becomes a reality today. Our solution offers you a modular system for designing, controlling and flexibilizing your production processes. Turn your process experts into the designers of your production with our innovative no-code and low-code approaches!

Plant management

With PLUS, you are free to design your plant management system for the paperless production of the future. This innovative approach enables you to design your workflows and visual support in manufacturing according to your individual requirements, allowing you to focus on the essentials: value creation in your company.

Shopfloor data supply

PLUS not only enables seamless integration of your data from the ERP to the store floor, but also a customizable and, above all, reliable data supply on the shopfloor. With its flexibility, PLUS offers the right solution for every level of automation and manufacturer.

Inline Quality Management

Our comprehensive inline quality management ensures that all defects are recorded and their reworking is controlled. It helps to document all safety-relevant scopes and enables further analysis. Thanks to PLUS, the real-time situation in production can be recorded at any time, allowing for [AK1] timely and targeted responses.

Sorter & buffer system

PLUS offers a dedicated module for controlling sorter and buffer systems, taking over core tasks such as storage, scheduling and retrieval. Various configurable strategies are available, which can be selected to suit the different conditions at the production sites.

Transparency & performance

Maximum performance for maximum efficiency: Our PLUS meets all your performance requirements, feel free to measure us against them. In this way, we ensure that your production processes run smoothly - regardless of the cycle frequency. This enables us to capture all data in your production in real time, granting you maximum transparency.

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Smart Manufacturing

You would like to have an overview and real-time information in your production? Lack of data integration leads to errors and increases manual effort? Customer satisfaction is suffering due to a lack of flexibility or quality problems? Our SMARTsolution analyses the degree of digitalization of your production processes and shows you potential for improvement to increase efficiency.

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Contact our experts in the area of PLUS

Europe
China
Henrik Lienstromberg
Executive Director
+49 421 430460