The global manufacturing industry is facing challenges from technological innovation and industrial transformation. Thanks to cost advantages such as inexpensive labor, raw materials, and industrial land, domestic manufacturing, particularly machinery and equipment manufacturing, has seen rapid development. As global manufacturing technology evolves, with the maturity of information systems and further upgrades in intelligent manufacturing, such cost advantages are gradually diminishing and becoming a burden on corporate growth. How to leverage new technologies and new thinking to better assist traditional mechanical manufacturing enterprises in achieving transformation and upgrading has become a critical issue for software vendors to tackle.

FT Software's ERP solution for machinery manufacturing and processing industry is tailor-made by our R&D team to meet the unique business needs of machinery companies. The entire solution benefits from FT ERP's decades of in-depth experience in the manufacturing sector. With the launch of the new FT T-ONE suite, our business team is assisting small and medium-sized machinery manufacturing enterprises in transitioning to the field of lightweight intelligent manufacturing.

Fangtian Machinery ERP Enterprise Management Suite, helping businesses achieve full-process business visualization. Full-process business architecture of the Fangtian Machinery ERP system.

FT Software's ERP solution for the machinery industry assists businesses in controlling operational nodes and facilitates the transition to intelligent manufacturing enterprises with innovative solutions.

1. Project and R&D Management

Achieve seamless integration between the Fangtian system and professional design systems, where the design system creates product designs and imports them into the Fangtian system. Engineers can modify the designs, automatically generate Bill of Materials (BOM) for production handover, and provide real-time feedback to all business departments, establishing a unified information platform and reducing information silos.

Project management encompasses the entire project lifecycle, from initiation, planning, execution to closure, monitoring project timelines and ensuring compliance with deadlines. It also effectively manages project budgets and controls costs, thereby enhancing cost transparency in project management.

Effectively manage the trial production process and independently manage research and development materials, equipment, and molds.

Implement multi-version management for BOM and process routes.

Achieve complete traceability in design, quality, and after-sales.

2. Non-standard Component Production Management

Fangtian Software's mechanical industry solution offers optional parts functionality, allowing sales personnel to determine and select certain optional components during order processing. It also provides the R&D department with the E-BOM (Engineering BOM) feature, which facilitates E-BOM management and enables data sharing and conversion between the formal BOM and E-BOM.

Improve the management of material data, BOMs, process routes, and other basic archives.

3. Production Planning Management

FT Software's mechanical industry solution incorporates a batch requirement planning subsystem to better compile product and semi-finished goods production plans, as well as material procurement plans, according to product or equipment capacity, enhancing the executability of production schedules; it is more suitable for planned production and order-based production models, significantly boosting work efficiency and accuracy.

4. Fangtian + MES Manufacturing Execution System

Strengthen workshop operation planning, allocate personnel and labor hours reasonably, provide timely and accurate production feedback, ensure transparency of production data and schedules, while enhancing the completion rate of production plans and product delivery times.

Track the entire production process from raw material production to finished product inventory using barcode technology, capturing all events in real-time, ensuring the entire factory floor is fully transparent.

Ensure product clarity and transparency throughout the production process, quickly identify the root cause of quality issues, implement targeted measures to resolve quality bottlenecks, achieve product quality traceability, and reduce quality costs.

Real-time record and monitor production processes, task completion, staff efficiency, labor productivity, equipment utilization, product pass rate, scrap rate, and other factors. Utilize the system's comprehensive statistical information query function to promptly identify issues during execution and implement improvements.

5. Quality Traceability and Control

Electronic quality result records, to improve and replace the current manual and paper-based quality ledger system.

Barcodes are integrated throughout the entire business chain, utilizing barcodes to record quality inspection results, allowing the system to trace results at any time, thereby enhancing work efficiency.

Establish a comprehensive quality system and integrate it into all business processes, strictly control quality issues at each stage to ensure product quality.

Conduct quality analysis in response to quality incidents, propose corrective and preventive measures, and implement improvements to achieve the goal of product quality enhancement.

Establish a post-sales support system, promptly respond to customer inquiries, and provide reasonable assistance, including return and exchange plans, repairs, recalls, etc.

6. Outsourced Production Management

For mechanical manufacturing companies primarily focused on assembly and streamlining production processes, certain materials and semi-finished products can be outsourced for processing. This can be done through outsourced labor, outsourced inventory management, or direct integration into the production line, thereby simplifying the company's operations and reducing costs.

FT Software's mechanical industry solution not only provides outsourcing order management for product outsourcing, but also features process outsourcing capabilities. For outsourced products that do not require inventory management, they can be directly integrated into the production line, thus avoiding the hassle of inventory management and ensuring accurate account handling.

7. Fine-tuned cost accounting

The Fangtian Mechanical Manufacturing ERP solution breaks down costs into: material costs, labor costs, manufacturing expenses, and processing fees. It employs a batch and step-by-step cost calculation method, offering flexible settings for labor and expense allocation to accommodate various complex situations. It provides clear data support for all costs generated at each business stage, freeing financial staff from tedious manual tasks such as data collection and cost allocation. This enables them to deliver cost information faster and more accurately to managers, enhancing the company's management decision-making level.

With the flexible data reports and business analysis suite of the Fangtian ERP, companies can visualize production cost data. Through the reports, they can effectively control cost and gross margin analysis, and obtain real-time insights into the inputs and outputs of each task.

8. Smart Warehouse Management

Innovative integration of barcode labels with RFID technology, intelligent devices贯穿 entire logistics processes, achieving digital and intelligent control of products.

Establishing application scenarios for automated equipment such as three-dimensional shelves and storage racks, utilizing technologies like the mother-child vehicle system, four-way穿梭车 technology, multi-level穿梭车 technology, ground four-way light to heavy AGV technology, goods-to-person picking systems, WMS (Warehouse Management System) software, and WCS (Warehouse Control System) systems, achieves the solution: "Shelves + Robots = Automated Warehouse Material System."

9. The integration of smart and intelligent manufacturing scenarios

Fangtian's solutions for the industrial Internet.

All-Channel Solutions / Core Operations Management (T-ONE ERP) / Agile R&D Management (PLM) / Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions (IMS)

Fangtian's solutions for external Internet of Things.

Fangtian Cloud Platform / Big Data Forecasting and Analysis / Fangtian T-ONE IoT Solution.

The combination of Fangtian T-ONE with relevant intelligent manufacturing hardware equipment: Siemens/Panasonic/Foxconn/Honeywell.

FT Machinery's ERP integrated solution for the industry helps businesses build a digital workshop, providing a comprehensive digital enterprise solution from design to production, from procurement to warehousing, and from sales to finance.