Manufacturing execution, without the three-year rollout
Your ERP knows what you intended to make. Capitán MES records what actually happened on the floor — which materials were consumed and from which lot, on which machine, by whom, and how long each operation really took.
Work orders carry the product’s bill of materials and its routing, so an operator sees the right components in the right sequence without a printed traveller. Where equipment can be read directly, machine data arrives on its own; where it cannot, operators are asked only for what a machine could never know.
The questions it answers on demand
Because consumption, waste and quality checks are recorded against the order as work proceeds, in-process traceability already exists by the time someone asks for it. A recall question, a customer audit or a yield investigation becomes a query rather than a week of rebuilding spreadsheets from exports.
Every screen, field and rule is configured rather than coded, so the system follows your process instead of forcing you onto someone else’s. Manufacturers in packaging, films, agriculture and industrial production each run a different configuration of the same platform.
Traceability stops being a project when it is a by-product of the work already being recorded.
Start with what a manufacturing execution system is, then read how MES differs from ERP before you compare vendors.
