Product
When visibility is the problem, FabVitals MES connects the factory.
A production layer that links planning to the shop floor and makes the state of production visible — built to connect to the ERP you already run, not to replace it.
The problem it addresses
The information exists. It just is not anywhere useful.
In most plants, everything that happens on the floor is known by someone. The difficulty is that it is known in fragments, at different times, in different places.
The order is in the ERP. The actual sequence is on a whiteboard. Quantities are on a paper sheet that gets entered tomorrow. The reason a machine stopped is in an operator's memory. Subcontracted work is in an email thread. Each piece is accurate; together they never form a current picture.
The cost is not dramatic, which is why it persists. It is a planner re-planning from estimates, a manager walking the floor to answer a customer, a stoppage nobody can explain because it was recorded as ninety minutes with no cause, and a month-end where the numbers have to be reconciled by hand.
The first question people ask
It does not replace your ERP. It connects to it.
FabVitals is built to integrate with any ERP. Orders, materials and master data stay where they already live; production execution and shop floor reality are what FabVitals adds.
And it is not all-or-nothing. Several of our modules — shop floor capture, defect monitoring, the subcontractor portal — can run directly against your existing ERP without FabVitals at all. If your ERP already carries production execution adequately, that is the cheaper path and we will point you to it.
What it does
Six things, done properly.
Work orders
Released, sequenced and visible with their real state — not just open or closed, but where they actually are and what is holding them.
Production recording
Declared at the line as it happens: quantities produced, quantities rejected, and by whom. Recorded once, at source, instead of written down and typed later.
Downtime with causes
A stoppage without a reason is a number you cannot act on. Causes are structured from the start so they can be counted, ranked and attacked.
Work in progress
What is between operations, in what quantity, and for how long. Usually the first thing a plant discovers it was wrong about.
Traceability
A finished unit linked back to its materials, machine, operator, settings and time window — the foundation the Digital Product Passport is built on.
KPIs and OEE
Calculated from recorded events rather than assembled in a spreadsheet, so the number is the same one everybody sees.
The product
What it looks like in use.
Who uses it
Four people, four different needs from the same data.
The operator
Needs to declare what was produced in seconds, on a screen at the line, without leaving the job. If it takes longer than the task itself, it will not be used.
The line leader
Needs to see the current state of their area and record why something stopped, while it is still fresh enough to be accurate.
The planner
Needs to know what is really finished before re-sequencing, instead of planning against yesterday's picture.
The production manager
Needs the trend, not the moment: where time is going, which causes repeat, whether last month's change actually did anything.
Integration
It sits between your ERP and your machines.
Upstream — ERP
Orders, articles, bills of material and routings come from the ERP. Confirmations and consumption go back to it. One direction each, deliberately.
Downstream — floor
Operator terminals for declaring work, and equipment readings where equipment can be read. Older machines get a workable manual path rather than being excluded.
Sideways — IoT
Sensor and meter data, including the consumption readings that feed emissions calculation.
Subcontracting
Work that leaves the building still needs to be visible.
In textile especially, a batch may leave and return several times before it ships. Those legs are usually the darkest part of the whole flow.
The subcontractor portal lets the external supplier declare progress and quantities directly, against the same work order. The information arrives structured instead of as an email that someone re-types, and the gap where a batch is simply unaccounted for closes.
What it will not do
The limits, stated up front.
It will not fix a process nobody owns
If responsibility for a step is unclear today, a system will make that ambiguity visible and permanent rather than resolve it.
It will not add capacity
If the constraint is machine hours or people, better visibility helps you decide — it does not create throughput.
It will not work unused
Everything depends on declarations actually being made at the line. That is a change in daily routine, and it needs the floor involved before go-live, not after.
It will not be accurate immediately
The first weeks of data expose recording habits more than they expose production. That is normal, and it is worth planning for.
The right way to evaluate this.
Not from this page. Let us map your process first — then you will know whether FabVitals, a single module on your existing ERP, or nothing at all is the right answer.
Show us how your factory works.
Let us look at your processes, identify where value is being lost, and determine where technology can actually help.