
In-Process Traceability: What It Means and How to Actually Achieve It
Lot numbers at goods-in and goods-out are not traceability. What in-process traceability requires, and how to build it without instrumenting everything.
Practical guides to manufacturing, projects and operations — from the team building Capitán.

Lot numbers at goods-in and goods-out are not traceability. What in-process traceability requires, and how to build it without instrumenting everything.

An ERP plans the business; an MES runs the floor. Where the boundary sits, why the gap between them loses data, and how to tell if you need both.

An MES records what really happens on the factory floor — work orders, materials, machine data and quality. What it does, and when you need one.