OEE can be measured starting from the first month
Continuous monitoring of plant efficiency with automatic alerts for downtime, bottlenecks, and quality issues.
Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)
sedApta MOM integrates scheduling, execution, and asset monitoring into a single operational layer. Real-time visibility, native integration with the ERP system, and quality control for every work order.
Manufacturing Operations Management: How to Optimize Scheduling and Production Processes
Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) involves establishing the policies and rules necessary to maintain high levels of production and ensure that the people, processes, and machinery involved operate in a coordinated manner. This includes optimizing machinery, materials, process execution, and the management of operational staff, based on the company’s strategic objectives such as cost reduction, quality control, performance improvement, and end-customer satisfaction, while also focusing on sustainability-related aspects.
Four results you can see on the factory floor
Scheduling, execution, monitoring, and traceability work together within a single operational layer. Each MOM module delivers a measurable result in the field—not just another data point in the system.
Paperless work orders
Operating instructions, machine parameters, and parts lists are transmitted digitally to the operator and the machine.
Scheduling that keeps pace
Factory Scheduling updates the schedule in real time based on capacity, materials, and customer priorities. No backup Excel file.
Full traceability, batch by batch
Every component, every process, every non-conformity: tracked from raw material to finished product. Ready for audits and recalls.
How sedApta MOM Works
- Advanced Factory Scheduling: Generates and updates the production schedule in just a few minutes, taking into account capacity, setup times, available materials, and customer deadlines. Works in tandem with the Supply Chain Planning module.
- Manufacturing Execution System (MES): manages the execution of work orders on the shop floor: assigns resources, transmits digital instructions to operators, and collects real-time progress data.
- Smart Asset Management: monitors the status of equipment, calculates OEE by line and by shift, and triggers preventive alerts before a failure leads to an unplanned shutdown.
- IIoT with sedApta Edge: directly integrates machine data (PLC, SCADA) into the MOM layer without additional middleware. Plant data is immediately converted into actionable insights.
- Integrated quality control: defines acceptance criteria for each stage of the process, automatically blocks non-conforming batches, and records every deviation for traceability.
- Multi-plant visibility: centralized dashboards for managers overseeing multiple facilities: performance comparisons, standardization of best practices, and consistent KPIs across different sites.
MOM in five steps: from the drawing board to the factory floor, without any gaps
Five phases covering the entire operational cycle: from planning to execution, from plant monitoring to quality control, and finally to performance analysis. Each step feeds into the next, with no data loss and no need for manual reconciliation.
Plan
Run
Monitor
Check
Improve
Plan
Factory Scheduling generates a production plan optimized for capacity, materials, and priorities. It updates in real time as demand or plant conditions change.
Run
The MES sends work orders to operators along with digital instructions, machine parameters, and a parts list. No printed sheets, no lost data.
Monitor
sedApta Edge IIoT collects machine data in real time. Smart Asset Management calculates OEE, identifies bottlenecks, and triggers preventive alerts before downtime occurs.
Check
The quality module monitors every stage of the process, automatically holds back non-conforming batches, and records full traceability from the raw material batch to the finished product.
Improve
Centralized dashboards compare performance across shifts, production lines, and plants. Operational data drives the cycle of continuous improvement.
Our Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) Solutions
What is the difference between MOM and MES?
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) focus primarily on what happens on the production floor. The term also often refers to software that helps track the production process. Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) encompasses production execution systems and efforts to analyze manufacturing processes. MOM also encompasses related areas, such as warehouse management, total production capacity, and inventory analysis. The software may use the term “MOM” because manufacturers use the software to help them manage their production operations. However, the phrase itself refers to the overall business process.
Production operations are managed through applications that digitize information and operational processes to enable greater efficiency and transparency. It is clear that access to shared corporate data—whether through the cloud or via specific integrations—is a key factor, especially for multi-site applications, if only to ensure consistent reporting and data analysis, as well as the standardization of business processes.
In today’s economic landscape, optimizing plant operations is crucial for achieving business objectives and ensuring sustainable growth. In the Italian industrial sector, which is dominated by small and medium-sized manufacturing companies, the essential role of operational processes—or “Operations”—becomes clear. Their excellence can not only have a decisive influence on the development of this type of company, but can also serve as a strategic lever.
We firmly believe that a robust and well-organized manufacturing sector can constitute the true wealth of our country’s economic system, contributing significantly to overall development.
Defining a corporate strategy is undoubtedly essential for organic and continuous development. However, sedApta’s extensive experience in on-site consulting has taught us that defining a strategy without the proper support of an efficient and dynamic operational organization risks being ineffective: the mind needs the body.
Through its Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) solution, sedApta positions itself as the ideal partner to tackle this challenge. Operations—comprising the three key activities of Planning, Production, and Production Process Control—combined with the fundamental components of Processes, People, and Technology, are optimized through the sedApta solution for Manufacturing Operations Management.
Neglecting even one of these three operational activities jeopardizes the desired success. A technologically advanced factory with inefficient operational planning compromises overall effectiveness, leading to delays, excess production, and urgent situations.
However, simply neglecting this aspect also poses similar risks: a perfect tool that is not properly understood by people and not integrated into a well-defined process with clear responsibilities risks losing its meaning.
The primary objective of sedApta’s MOM solution sedApta is to bridge the gap between operational processes and actual customer needs. The company’s very raison d’être lies in satisfying the customer, and aspects such as process efficiency and service speed all serve this goal.
Operations management in manufacturing makes the “customer promise” made during the sales phase a reality and is therefore a crucial element of corporate strategy.
For this reason, we believe that, compared to the past, SMEs must pursue excellence in operational processes, using sedApta as a key partner to contribute more and more significantly to corporate development and, consequently, to the development of our country.
Effective operations management brings benefits at both the operational and managerial levels.
Operational
- Becoming lean —that is, managing the execution of work orders through electronic instructions to operators, transmitting configuration parameters to machinery, increasing oversight to strengthen processes and product quality, and optimizing inventory levels and logistics to ensure uninterrupted production and efficient cost control.
- Optimizing asset utilization – by monitoring OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and tracking asset downtime to identify bottlenecks, define best practices, and compare the performance of different production lines or machines.
- Ensure quality – by maintaining consistent product quality through the definition and implementation of defined production processes and work procedures to achieve quality that meets specifications.
- Improve quality – by reducing scrap and variations, thereby improving yield and minimizing quality losses through the use of statistical process control methods.
Management
- Driving business performance – Ensuring that all stakeholders involved in the process follow the same procedures and adopt best practices, monitoring how quality variations impact profits, and providing real-time visibility into business and plant operations necessary for effective planning.
- Ensuring product compliance – Through full traceability and visibility into quality data, it is possible to reduce the risk of product recalls by ensuring that products are manufactured according to specifications.
- Visualize the process – visibility across the entire supply chain and decision support enable better planning and help ensure customer satisfaction.
- Capitalize on opportunities – facilitates integration between planning and business functions with production operations to increase agility, capitalizing on opportunities generated by market demand and optimizing production capacity.
Other solutions
MOM and the link that bridges the gap between planning and production
Decisions made in Demand Management and Supply Chain Planning are translated into work orders on the shop floor. The data collected from production is fed back into the plan and used to adjust the forecast. In the O.S.A. suite, this exchange is continuous, bidirectional, and automatic.
Would you like to see how MOM works in your system? Let’s schedule a 30-minute session—no generic presentations: start with one of your processes, and we’ll show you where sedApta fits in.
Would you like to see how MOM works in your system? Let’s schedule a 30-minute session—no generic presentations: start with one of your processes, and we’ll show you where sedApta fits in.