POMS MES for Regulated CPG Industries

Management of Manufacturing Operations from Dock to Stock

Overview

Honeywell’s POMS MES for Regulated CPG is a suite of functionality designed for manufacturing operations. The purpose of the suite is to guide and assist the manufacturing operator through complex manufacturing processes while assuring the use of best practices. In addition, POMS MES captures important data pertaining to the process including compliance data (for regulated industries) and process data related to the manufacturing events.

There are three integrated functional areas of the POMS MES suite:

• WIP Management
• Pre-weigh Control (also called Weigh/Dispense)
• Interactive Operating Instructions
• The Integrated Model

Interfacing associated with the POMS MES suite includes:

• External interfaces to ERP, LIMS, Document Management, Asset Management
• RF functionality
• Equipment interfaces to PLC’s (programmable logic controllers)

POMS MES WIP Management

The strong base of the POMS MES for CPG product is the ability to manage materials. The POMS MES product contains a full function, raw material stock locator system. The material locator may be managed at the lot level or the container level. Greater system functionality is seen if materials are at the container level. Each container will have it’s own expiration and retest dates and disposition characteristics, thus an anomaly for one container will not tie up the entire lot of the product.

WIP Management functionality includes:

• Material receipt (either from a PO and freight bill or a miscellaneous receipt)
• Material consumption (line dispense) and product creation (output)
• Material sampling
• Unplanned Materials
• Material Disposition (assay data required for potency calcs, expire date, retest date and quality status)    
• Material movement (scheduled and adhoc)
• Warehouse and location management (class and location type)
• Material adjustment
• Material waste
• Material return to supplier
• Genealogy of the consumed materials
• Labeling of materials
• Yield and reconciliation of the final product of the recipe

The following are benefits of the offering:

• Reduced material on hand because the material location is known
• Reduced lot liability by handling the inventory at the container level
• Individual disposition, expire and retest dates for the containers
• Receipt of materials against a PO or by miscellaneous receipt.
• Scheduled or adhoc movement of materials AND direct update to ERP of the movement
• Material adjustment with direct updates to ERP
• 24hr by 7 day operation with store and forward capability to ERP during ERP downtime periods
• Labeling of the materials (and material reprint if needed)

POMS MES Pre-weigh or Weigh / Dispense

An extension of POMS MES WIP Management functionality is Pre-weigh, or Weigh/Dispense.

The POMS MES Pre-weigh functionality is a very rich function within the POMS suite. POMS MES offers 10 different Pre-weigh methods based on best manufacturing practices. Pre-weigh is based on a minimal amount of WIP Management functionality in which a container or lot of released material is present to weigh. Coupled with POMS MES WIP Management functionality, Pre-weigh becomes a full function weigh and dispense execution subsystem meeting the needs of manufacturing best practices.

Pre-weigh functionality includes:

• Asset maintenance for rooms, scales and balances
• Scale and balance calibration and standardization
• Order driven and manually initiated weighing
• Kitting
• Material pre-weighing and staging
• Volumetric weighing
• Material staging
• Material substitution
• Waste
• Labeling (and re-printing if needed)
• Weighing to account centers
• Lot allocation

POMS MES Pre-weigh allows for manufacturing orders for materials to be either manually entered or interfaced to ERP.  Material substitution is allowed.

Scales and balances are managed allowing calibration, standardization and application connectivity to the Pre-weigh software modules. Personnel training requirements may be tracked and enforced within the Pre-weigh functionality. Manual weighing requests (such as pre-weighs or adhoc material requisitions) are allowed with traceability to a specified account number. Re-containerization (allocating of materials) and staging are allowed.

The benefits of implementing POMS MES Pre-weigh are as follows:

• Greater accuracy of the weigh
• Reduced errors due to electronic interfacing with the scale or balance
• Enhanced lot tracking
• Greatly reduced lot substitution errors or errors involving expired material
• Enhanced labeling
• Enhanced productivity due to kitting and staging of weighed materials
• Reduction of manufacturing complexity using two operators and check-weighing
• Increased productivity by managing personnel, rooms and scales to meet the weigh needs of the manufacturing
• Tracking of training compliance (if initiated) for Pre-weigh area

POMS MES Interactive Operating Instructions

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