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AUTOMOTIVE & DISCRETE MANUFACTURING

Complex assembly, line logic,
parameter historians.

Long-cycle, high-variant assembly lives or dies on traceability and operator discipline. We instrument the line so every unit carries its own genealogy — from component to finished vehicle — and every minute of downtime has a name.

CAETANO BUSINAPAL METALSERRATEC
01 · THE CHALLENGE

Where discrete manufacturers lose control.

Discrete and automotive plants run long, multi-station builds with hundreds of operators and thousands of parameters per hour. The pain is rarely a single machine — it is the gaps between stations, systems, and shifts where data is captured on paper, never, or too late to act on.

  • 01

    Manual data on long cycles

    Production, quality and parameter data captured by hand across multi-hour builds — re-keyed or lost before it can drive a decision.

  • 02

    Fragmented OEE visibility

    Machine performance lives in islands. No single, attributed view of availability, performance and quality across the line.

  • 03

    Weak operator task management

    Complex, high-variant work without structured instructions, deviation handling, or skills/training gating at the station.

  • 04

    Genealogy gaps

    Component-to-unit traceability is incomplete — turning a targeted recall into a fleet-wide one and a warranty claim into a guess.

02 · WHERE THE SECTOR IS MOVING

The trends reshaping the shopfloor.

ELECTRIFICATION

New processes, new traceability

EV and battery assembly introduce safety-critical parameters and cell-level genealogy that paper routines cannot carry.

MASS CUSTOMIZATION

High-mix, low-volume

Build-to-order and variant explosion demand line logic that adapts per unit without re-engineering the process.

DIGITAL THREAD

Parameter historian for warranty

Tag-level data tied to unit genealogy feeds FMEA, warranty defense and continuous improvement.

LABOR

Operator guidance closes the skills gap

Scarce, rotating labor means digital work instructions and at-station guidance become the productivity lever.

RESILIENCE

Reshoring & supply visibility

Nearshoring and dual-sourcing raise the bar on real-time material and component tracking.

AI OPERATIONS

Clean data as the foundation

Predictive quality and autonomous routing only work on a contextualized, real-time operational backbone.

03 · REGULATORY PRESSURE

Compliance is an execution problem.

Automotive carries some of the heaviest traceability and quality-record obligations in manufacturing. Each one resolves, on the shopfloor, to data that must be captured at source and queryable on demand.

IATF 16949Automotive QMS

Process control, full forward/backward traceability, and controlled documentation of every characteristic.

Quality captured at the station, tied to unit genealogy, with audit-ready records produced from the live data.

EU Battery Regulation2023/1542 · Battery Passport

Cell- and pack-level genealogy, carbon and material data, and a digital passport for EV batteries.

Battery-line execution with cell traceability and parameter capture feeding the passport dataset.

ESPR / DPPDigital Product Passport

Product-level data on composition, repairability and provenance, exposed through a digital passport.

Genealogy and as-built records structured so passport data is a query, not a project.

PPAP / APQPProduction part approval

Documented, repeatable process capability and part-approval evidence for every launch.

Parameter historian and SPC built into execution — approval evidence generated, not assembled after the fact.

04 · OUR APPROACH

A production-assembly MES vertical.

We deploy MES purpose-built for discrete assembly — not a generic shell bent into shape. Line logic models the real station sequence; automatic data collection replaces clipboards; a parameter historian ties tag-level data to each unit's genealogy.

Operators get structured workflows with deviation handling and skills gating. Quality is captured at source against control characteristics, and OEE becomes a single attributed view across every line — so downtime reduction is driven by reason codes, not opinions.

Every unit leaves the line with a complete digital birth certificate — component genealogy, process parameters, and quality results in one record.
05 · WHAT WE DELIVER

Outcomes, not modules.

  • Line orchestrationSynchronized stations across long-cycle, high-variant assembly.
  • Parameter historianTag-level data tied to unit genealogy for warranty and FMEA.
  • Component-to-unit traceabilityTargeted recalls and warranty defense in a single query.
  • Operator task managementStructured work, deviation handling, skills and training gating.
  • Quality at sourceControl characteristics captured at the station, holds enforced.
  • OEE & downtime reductionOne attributed view across all lines, reason-coded losses.
06 · REFERENCE CLIENTS

Proven on real assembly floors.

CAETANO BUS
BUS ASSEMBLY · MES

Production-assembly MES with line logic, real-time data collection, parameter historian, traceability to unit genealogy and operator task management across a complex bus-assembly environment.

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INAPAL METAL
METAL COMPONENTS · OEE

Automatic data collection and OEE visibility across metal-forming and component lines, with downtime attribution and quality data captured at the source.

SERRATEC
PRECISION COMPONENTS

Shopfloor digitalization for precision discrete manufacturing — structured operator workflows and real-time performance visibility on the line.

See what assembly MES looks like on your line.

A focused diagnostic maps your stations, data gaps and traceability needs against proven discrete-manufacturing patterns.