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DS Smart Core AI MES

Building a Predictable, Traceable, and Controllable Smart Manufacturing Core Architecture​

Is Your Factory Suitable for DS Smart Core MES?

Factories needing to monitor the status of personnel, machines, and materials
Requires real-time visibility of workforce, machine utilization, materials, and tool status to avoid bottlenecks and unstable production capacity
Factories with numerous equipment, frequent downtime, and uncontrollable states
Needs to monitor equipment utilization, alarms, and maintenance information to reduce downtime risk and improve utilization
Factories relying on memory and inconsistent methods
Operational styles vary by person, causing inconsistent quality; standardized processes and accurate work instructions are needed
Factories with small batch variety and complex processes
Frequent line changes and multi-route processes require clear process control and scheduling coordination
Factories needing precise reporting and real-time production status
Requires tracking work order progress, WIP location, and on-site status to improve management transparency
Businesses expanding or managing multiple plants
Needs a unified management platform supporting scheduling, quality, and resource control across sites, maintaining expansion efficiency
Factories that cannot let defective products flow out
High quality demand requires inspection checkpoints, traceability, and real-time anomaly locking mechanisms

Six Major Benefits of DS SmartCore MES

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Comprehensive Visualization of Personnel, Equipment, and Materials

  • Real-time updates for personnel, equipment, materials, jigs, and tool status
  • No longer relying on inquiries or manual records in the field
2

Intelligent Scheduling Without Work Order or Material Interruptions

  • WOMS-APS throughout the system checks materials and resources to avoid shortages and interruptions; production continues smoothly
  • Work order exception reporting and adjustment
3

Standardized Processes and Controllable Operations

  • With SOP and reporting processes, everyone produces to the same standard
  • Prevents skipping stations, wrong processes, and differences in operations
4

Real-Time Production Status Tracking

  • Each work order, operation, operator, and machine progress is visible in real time
  • Faster, more accurate, and transparent management
5

Ensure Quality Does Not Flow Out Through Measurement

  • Integrated measurement, parameter limits, key point control, and automatic anomaly alerts
  • Defective products are stopped at the first station and do not flow downstream
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Central Platform for Factory Data and Standards

  • DS Smart Core MES integrates all resources, processes, quality, equipment, and work orders into one platform, becoming the core foundation for FMS, automation, and AI systems

Integrated Architecture of Six Modules: Personnel, Machine, Material, Method, Environment, Measurement

DS MES is based on the 'Personnel, Machine, Material, Method, Environment, Measurement' framework, integrating human resources, equipment, materials, processes, quality, and environment information, and linking to DS SmartCore AI. The system connects modules in real time and supports scheduling checks, process monitoring, quality traceability, and intelligent decision-making to build an efficient, traceable, and controllable smart manufacturing system.

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Core Resource Modeling: Personnel・Machine・Material

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HRM|Human Resource Management System

Integrates personnel data, skill qualifications, onboarding conditions, and shift records as the basis for WOMS-APS labor resources, assists in judging labor availability, assignment conditions and qualification restrictions, avoids unqualified personnel on line, and ensures scheduling considers both production needs and compliance for stable operation.

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  • Personnel Master
    Centralized management of employee basic info, department, shift, role, and system permissions
  • Ability / Qualification
    Skill matrix for qualifications and certificate status with expiration reminders
  • Onboarding Qualification
    Set onboarding criteria by process and equipment; only qualified personnel are assigned
  • Shift Planning & Availability
    Synchronize shift schedules, overtime, and leave for accurate labor availability
  • Training Management
    Course planning, assessment, and recertification cycle to ensure personnel comply with operational requirements
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AMS|Asset Management System

Integrates equipment records, maintenance logs, status information, and utilization data as the foundation for WOMS-APS equipment availability judgment and operation assignment, helping scheduling avoid unavailable equipment for stable production rhythm and improved equipment efficiency.

  • Asset Master and Management
    Centralized management of production assets, facilities, and jigs, with hierarchical structure, location, and usage range as basis for asset governance and assignment decisions
  • Asset Status & Availability
    Real-time tracking of equipment operation, downtime, and maintenance status, clearly indicating asset usability and providing scheduling decision data
  • Inspection and Maintenance Compliance
    Manage inspection, maintenance, and repair records, track due and abnormal events, and lower unexpected downtime risk
  • Asset History & Fault Analysis
    Complete record of failures, repairs, and replacements for cause analysis and continuous improvement
  • Asset Availability & Deployment Status
    The system judges asset usability, occupation, or reservation, and provides asset list for assignment and configuration strategy support
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WMS|Material Resource and Warehouse Management System

Integrates inventory, batch, and in/out records as the basis for WOMS-APS to determine material availability, scheduling, and issuing requirements, ensuring uninterrupted orders and stable production flows.

  • Material Master & Resource Definition
    Create material master and define specs, units, and storage; materials are treated as schedulable production resources
  • In/Out & Issuing Process
    Manage inbound, outbound, and issuance for raw, semi-finished, and finished goods, ensuring logistic match actual requirements
  • Batch & Traceability Management
    Manage batch number, source and destination for full production traceability and quality compliance
  • Real-Time Inventory & Availability Control
    Immediate update of inventory and reservations, clearly showing usable materials for issuing
  • Stocktaking & Discrepancy Adjustment
    Support periodic and cycle counts, process inventory differences to ensure book and actual match
  • Material Demand & Shortage Warning
    Automatically derive material needs per schedule, give shortage alert and supply suggestions, and link to WOMS-APS to avoid line stops

End-to-End Smart Manufacturing Closed Loop|Order to Delivery Integrated Management

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WOMS-APS|Work Order Management & Planning System

Focusing on executable scheduling, supports work order creation, process breakdown, and setup, real-time checks for labor, equipment, and material restrictions to avoid releasing infeasible orders.

Provides deadline feasibility forecast and conflict alerts, and auto-includes abnormal impact in schedule calculations; schedule instantly updates to match site status, improving reliability and transparency.

  • Executable Work Order Creation
    After order creation, the system checks resource availability—only orders passing the check are released for execution
  • Deadline & Planning Control
    The system computes schedule and provides deadline suggestions to help managers control overall rhythm and delivery commitment
  • Urgent Order Conflict Management
    When a rush order affects scheduled tasks, system calculates impact and delays, updating schedule after confirmation
  • Resource Requirement & Availability Check
    Automatically derive labor, equipment, and material needs per order and instantly compare with site resources to avoid scheduling mismatch
  • Production Status & Bottleneck Visualization
    Display order progress, WIP, and waiting times in real-time, predicts bottlenecks, and helps managers quickly decide
  • Reporting Sync & Status Writeback
    System auto-writes report data to order and schedule so delivery status aligns with actual progress
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PRS|Production Reporting System

Feeds back process output, operation hours, and abnormal info for WOMS-APS to update work order progress, capacity analysis, and rescheduling, ensuring progress is visible and expected, avoiding delays, and improving manufacturing efficiency.

  • Process Reporting & Output Feedback
    Report process start/finish, actual output, and good/defective split, forming real-time production achievement
  • Operation Hours & Equipment Utilization Records
    Log labor hours and equipment processing/standby/abnormal times for efficiency and cost analysis
  • Production Abnormal Reporting
    Quickly report interruptions, waiting for materials, repairs, and downtime reason, standardizing abnormal data
  • Progress Sync & Real-Time Visualization
    Instantly writeback to WOMS-APS, synchronize order progress, scheduling status, and expected finish
  • Production Traceability Record
    Reporting data links personnel, equipment, tools, and batch, building full manufacturing history
  • Integration with WOMS-APS / MES
    Reporting data drives auto-schedule update so PRS becomes 'the single source of truth' for the shop floor
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SMB|Smart Machine Box

Collects equipment connectivity data, operational status, signal measurement, and warning information for WOMS-APS to judge equipment availability, process arrangement, and capacity estimation, ensuring schedules reflect real equipment status and reducing downtime risk.

  • Equipment Data Acquisition
    Collect equipment signals via PLC, Modbus, OPC-UA, MQTT, and supplement with sensors and meters
  • Real-Time Operational Status
    Report power on/off, standby, alarm, and cycle time instantly, making machine status totally transparent
  • Equipment Events and Alert
    Classify and notify failures and abnormal events, track events and assist in root cause analysis
  • Edge Computing
    Processes signals and caches data locally, avoiding data loss due to outages
  • Energy and Utilization Monitoring
    Monitor current, power consumption, air pressure, and cycle time; calculate utilization for capacity and TPM/OEE analysis
  • Data Upload and Integration
    Connects MES/SCADA/AMS to provide scheduling-usable equipment status and capacity to WOMS-APS and acts as a tool management/CNC data hub
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DMS|Document Management System

Manages manufacturing documents, SOP, drawings, and version control to ensure the shop always uses correct and latest documents, avoiding errors, and building traceable change history for manufacturing consistency and standardization.

  • Document Master Management
    Centralized management of SOP, WI, drawings, inspection specs, and all engineering documents
  • Version Control
    Controls document changes and approval processes to prevent using wrong or outdated documents
  • Publication and Online Control
    Controls official document rollout and expiry-based takedowns to prevent misuse
  • Permission Management
    Set view, download, and print permissions by department and position to protect sensitive data
  • Document Tracking & Audit
    Full history of opening, changes, and usage for reliable document record
  • MES Module Integration
    Provides the latest SOP/work instructions in production for standard execution on shop floor
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QMS|Quality Management System

Manages process and finished product quality inspection and abnormality handling, with full inspection, tracking, and improvement processes to guarantee product consistency and stability. Quality data syncs with MES for real-time adjustment and lower defect ratio, building predictable, stable quality.

  • Incoming/Process/Shipping Inspection
    Manage inspection items, sampling methods, and result categories, ensuring quality at every stage
  • Quality Abnormal Management
    Classify, report, and track defects and anomalies to improve handling efficiency
  • Quality Traceability
    Link inspection results to process, batch, material, personnel, and equipment for complete traceability
  • Inspection Standards & Specs Management
    Centralized measurement specs, QC standards, and methods for consistent and auditable quality
  • Improvement & Audit Management
    Record root cause analysis and improvement measures, track implementation to avoid repeat issues
  • Integration with WOMS-APS/MES
    Auto-write back quality judgments, determine supplement, rework, or scrap, and send traceability data to MES
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NMS|Notification Management System

Provides instant notifications and event push, delivering key info like order changes, shortages, equipment anomalies, and quality alerts to relevant staff for rapid response and stable production.

  • Event Push
    Notify order updates, schedule changes, progress delays, and delivery risk
  • Abnormal Alerts
    Instantly alert to equipment abnormalities, downtime, material shortages, and high defect ratios
  • Push Routing & Object Settings
    Auto-determine notification targets/groups by department, role, production line, and shift
  • Multi-Channel Notification
    Support Web, dashboard, Email, SMS, App, Line/Teams, etc.
  • Push Record & Tracking
    Record notifications and responses, track who received and acted
  • MES Module Integration
    Integrated with WOMS-APS, PRS, AMS, WMS, QMS for instant push on events
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SCADA|Process Monitoring System

Real-time collection of equipment, process, environment, and energy data gives complete production visibility. The system monitors electricity, air pressure, and energy use, integrates energy info into ESG management, and helps enterprises achieve sustainability.

Provides MES-required equipment utilization, environment parameters, and abnormal data for stable, safe, and traceable production.

  • Real-Time Equipment Monitoring
    Shows real-time equipment on/off, standby, and abnormal status
  • Process Data Collection
    Collects temperature, pressure, flow rate, and key process parameters for analysis and traceability
  • Energy & Power Monitoring
    Monitors power use, air pressure, and other energy data for machines and lines
  • ESG & Environmental Monitoring
    Monitors temperature, humidity, air quality, and environment conditions, supporting ESG metrics
  • Abnormal Alarms & Event Management
    Detects process and equipment anomalies, pushing alerts instantly
  • MES Module Integration
    Feedbacks equipment, environment, and energy data to MES for improved scheduling, quality, and efficiency
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TMS|DS Tool Management System

DS Tool Management focuses on lifespan, usage monitoring, and maintenance tracking, integrating intelligent tool delivery and machine communication with full RFID/QR code monitoring. Ensures the right tools are at the right machine, in the right way, reducing cost, avoiding dimension errors, scrap, and downtime, and improving yield.

  • Standard Tool Setup & Work Order Driven Assembly
    Manages tools by standard list and lifespan, auto-dispatch required tools per work order for traceability
  • Tool Room & Smart Dispenser Management
    RFID/code management for stocking, issuing, scrapping, and real-time inventories; avoids shortages and duplication
  • Smart Line-Side Tool Delivery
    Auto-dispatch and verify tool identity per order with log, improving accuracy and traceability
  • Tool Measurement & Offset Auto Calibration
    Auto-measure length/diameter and upload to CNC for precision; avoids manual entry errors
  • CNC Tool Usage Monitoring & Life Management
    Monitor usage cycles and hours in real time, life alerts to avoid tool breakage, loss, or sudden downtime
  • Tool Scrap Tracking & Lifecycle Management
    Full record from issue to scrap for cost/customer support and improvement/purchasing decisions
  • Inventory Overview & Procurement Forecast
    Integrate warehouse/dispenser data, analyze usage patterns to avoid shortage or overstock
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DS|SmartCore AI

DS SmartCore AI centers on the 5M1E MES, integrating production, equipment, quality, and material data on an OpenAI API analytics platform, providing instant AI predictions for delivery, equipment failures, and quality risks to enhance decision speed. Data sent via API are only used for real-time calculation and not for training, conforming to enterprise security and access control.

Smart Delivery and Bottleneck Monitoring
Integrates work order and schedule data to forecast delayed orders and bottleneck processes, making delivery more predictable and manageable
Shortage and Inventory Health Analysis
AI assesses shortage impact on order progress, points out risks and excess inventory, enabling more precise supply decisions
Equipment Downtime and Maintenance Forecast
Analyzes maintenance history and signals to assess potential downtime risk, helping schedule priority maintenance to reduce capacity loss
Process Stability and Anomaly Detection
Uses trends/stats models to identify abnormal fluctuations, promptly issues alerts and improvement directions to reduce scrap risk
Intelligent Quality Traceability & Issue Control
Links defects, equipment, personnel, and batch to quickly locate causes, shortening trace time and reducing recurrence
AI Decision Center
Combines plant-wide production, equipment, quality, and material info, assisting AI in prioritizing urgent issues for faster, more accurate decisions
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DS Smart 5M1E MES

Creating a Predictable, Traceable, and Controllable Smart Manufacturing Core Architecture for more stable, efficient, and predictable plant management

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Digitization and Standardization of People, Machine, Material, Method, Measurement, and Environment

  • Form the foundational data layer for measurable and manageable manufacturing
2

Complete Closed-Loop Manufacturing from Order to Delivery

  • Ensure every process step and change is recorded and traceable
3

Production Transparency, Quality Traceability, and Process Control

  • Enable early detection of anomalies and instant handling
4

Combined AI Analytics Architecture

  • Predict and suggest solutions for delivery risk, equipment anomalies, quality fluctuations, and shortage impacts

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