Best Manufacturing Execution Systems for Freelancers
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What are Manufacturing Execution Systems for Freelancers?
Manufacturing execution systems (MES) are software solutions designed to monitor, track, and control manufacturing processes on the shop floor. These systems provide real-time visibility into production activities, enabling manufacturers to optimize processes, improve efficiency, and ensure product quality. MES platforms typically include features like production scheduling, inventory management, quality control, equipment monitoring, and data collection. By using MES, manufacturers can streamline operations, reduce downtime, improve resource utilization, and maintain better control over production workflows. Compare and read user reviews of the best Manufacturing Execution systems for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Odoo
Odoo
Odoo is a fully integrated, customizable, open-source software packed with hundreds of expertly designed business applications. Odoo’s intuitive database is able to meet a majority of business needs, such as: CRM, Sales, Project, Manufacturing, Inventory, and Accounting, just to name a few. Odoo is an all-in-one software solution designed to meet the needs of companies, regardless of their size (or budget). The unbeatable, seamless nature of Odoo helps businesses become more efficient by reducing redundant manual processes, which helps companies save countless hours of labor. Every module is interconnected to provide a fully-integrated experience from app to app, and users can automate many processes that would’ve otherwise required manual inputs into multiple applications. Odoo keeps all business functions in one place, allowing teams to collaborate with other departments from one unified platform in the most efficient way possible.Starting Price: $25.00/month/user -
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Infor M3
Infor
Efficiently executing the complex processes of enterprise manufacturers and distributors. Infor M3 is a cloud-based, manufacturing and distribution ERP system that leverages the latest technologies to provide an exceptional user experience and powerful analytics in a multicompany, multicountry, and multisite platform. Infor M3 and related CloudSuite™ industry solutions include industry-leading functionality for the chemical, distribution, equipment, fashion, food and beverage, and industrial manufacturing industries. Staying ahead of the competition means staying agile. Our new capabilities bring improved data-driven insights and streamlined workflows to help you make informed decisions and take quick action. -
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Epicor Advanced MES
Epicor Software
Epicor Advanced MES is a manufacturing execution system that is suited to plastic molders, repetitive manufacturers and those with an assembly process involving multiple machines. It is designed to help floor operators to monitor and optimize their plant operations. Advanced MES helps manufacturers monitor and control their business with real-time plant and machinery information. The system enables users to identify inefficient resource allocations to find new capacity within the business. It also helps to track machine downtime and record scrap and material wastage in every production cycle. The software offers visibility into operations, real-time scheduling and process monitoring. Users can monitor up to 100,000 cycles and can see production details and descriptors. Maintenance teams can also access machine condition reports to plan preventive maintenance. Advanced MES offers integrations with accounting and manufacturing estimating capabilities. -
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Fishbowl
Fishbowl
Fishbowl is the #1 selling manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks. Designed for small and medium-sized businesses, including manufacturers, distributors, and service providers, Fishbowl gives businesses the flexibility to stay within the QuickBooks platform for accounting while seamlessly integrating advanced inventory features with it. It also offers multi-location tracking, work orders, bills of materials, barcoding, shipping, auto reorder points, and integrations with EDI, shopping carts, merchant services, and other business solutions. If you are looking for an affordable inventory management solution that can help your business take advantage of the latest technology to streamline operations and save time and money, Fishbowl is a great option.Starting Price: $349/mo -
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Mingo
Mingo Smart Factory
Trusted by leading manufacturers, Mingo Smart Factory is an easy-to-use, fast to deploy OEE software that can be set up in less than 1 day. Collect data automatically and get insight into important manufacturing KPIs like OEE, cycle time, downtime, utilization, throughput, and many others with visuals like scoreboards, dashboards, and mobile app. Start small and as you grow, expand to a full manufacturing productivity platform. With Mingo, improve OEE and get insight into what's happening in the plant. Mingo Smart Factory is manufacturing productivity and analytics software that provides real-time visibility on the factory floor that helps reduce downtime, improve on-time delivery, and increase profitability of manufacturing companies. Mingo empowers manufacturers to start simple, think big, move fast, and easily grow from a single machine at one plant to thousands of machines across the globe with manufacturing productivity and analytics software. -
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ProShop
ProShop ERP
ProShop is a paperless and web based shop management, ERP, MES and QMS system for manufacturing companies in regulated industries. ProShop was built on the shop floor of a machine shop for nearly 20 years, and it's not like anything you've seen. Built to manage the complex manufacturing environment better than anything else on the market - by an order of magnitude. Never before has there been a system that gives you such insight into every detail of your manufacturing company. ProShop is best described as a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem (DME). It is 100% paperless, and combines the features found in ERP, MES, QMS, CMMS, and other software categories for machine shops, fabricators, job shops, contract manufacturers and others in regulated industries who need tight controls on their process and want exacting and timely information to make the best and most profitable decisions.Starting Price: Contact us -
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OpenPro ERP
OpenPro, Inc.
Grow your business with OpenPro ERP solutions that can be deployed in the cloud or on your server. Our software supports most industries with a complete Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software solution. As a provider of Business Management ERP Software, OpenPro excels with its Real-Time Solutions. From Accounting and Financial Reports to its MES software, MRP manufacturing and wholesale distribution inventory control software. The Business Management Software are all GAAP and international compliant. OpenPro is multi language (9 different) and multi currency. Another of the many business software solutions is a complete retail Point of Sales (POS) system, while distributors benefit from the supply chain management software. Built in time card management, Payroll and HRMS systems are integrated with the accounting manufacturing software. Customer Relationship management (CRM) is integrated to target prospects and convert them into customers quickly.Starting Price: $44 per user -
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WorkClout
WorkClout
WorkClout helps quality engineering teams improve quality and get product-to-market faster. After just 2 weeks following implementation with WorkClout, Power Solutions International saw a 24% increase in efficiency. In addition, they were able to achieve 34X ROI due to improved audit capability with a digital and streamlined process. If you have any questions about how WorkClout can help you achieve your business goals, we have a world-class team. You'll have a dedicated account manager, customer success rep, and engineer, ready to support you along the way! Quality engineers use templates to implement and improve quality efficiency by over 25%. Software Advice thinks that WorkClout is a FrontRunner™ and the #1 software for quality management in usability and customer satisfaction! WorkClout is a quality management platform for automotive parts manufacturers. Our software help streamlines & automate internal audits, document control, visual inspections, training, etc. -
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EZ-GO Platform
EZ Factory
EZ Factory is a SAAS Company with a software solution called “the EZ-GO platform”. This is a mobile solution, with a focus on continuous improvement within production environments. The simple and visual software platform is used in factories to digitize checklists, work instructions, first-line maintenance tasks, and audits to improve safety, quality, training and efficiency on the shop floor. Front-line factory workers finally know what to do, why, where, when, and how to do it. Improve safety, quality and efficiency by digitizing paper forms, lists and other documents on the shop floor. The EZ-GO platform is a mobile solution, with a focus on continuous improvement within production environments. The simple and visual app is used in factories to digitize checklists, first line maintenance tasks and audits. Furthermore, the solution offers the possibility to setup work instructions and motivates operators to propose improvements. -
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SFactrix.ai
Factana Computing
MES Software provides functions and processes to prepare, plan and execute factory floor operations uniformly, track progress at real-time and increase agility to align as the day demands. SFactrix MES / MOM Software provides all features required to run lean manufacturing operations. The inbuilt AI-based Manufacturing Intelligence module provides Performance KPIs, Downtime Alerts, Loss based Metrics, Scrap Trends, MTTR and MTBF etc. Deploy AI driven SFactrix solution to have control on your production performance and quality control.Starting Price: $99/month for 10 assets -
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edinn M2
Edinn
Founded in 2004, edinn is becoming one of the world’s most popular Industry 4.0 Platform as it is used by thousands of customers around the world. Edinn is the base platform for any Industry 4.0 project, because it includes the necessary “core” elements and, on them, using the favorite development environment, it allows to solve any need through its standard API. That is why leading companies that are edinn partners use it in their Industry 4.0 projects. Edinn produces the platform, but it needs partners to implement it in customers. Partners also have, with edinn, a complete back-end to develop and manage an Industry 4.0 business line. This Partner + edinn business model provides greater service and commitment to the final user. The platform incorporates 13 modules and numerous downloadable add-ons.Starting Price: €29/process -
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SwipeGuide
SwipeGuide
It’s time to simplify the way people work and learn at the frontline. SwipeGuide is the frontline 'how-to' platform for collaborative and connected work at scale. The clear-cut platform helps you drive operational excellence through standard work and frontline skills development, hassle-free (we promise). ✓ Coordinate instructions, checklists, and frontline know-how to prevent errors and keep every process running smoothly. ✓ Standardize 50 different ways of doing the same thing. ✓ Capture improvements and share data driven best practices across teams to drive efficiency and continuous improvement. ✓ Motivate frontline teams to develop skills proactively and simplify shop floor training through dynamic skills management. → Simply put: SwipeGuide captures the know-how of the best to remove the guesswork from the rest. Every task done right. No matter who. No matter what. That’s our groove - hope you like it. SwipeGuide is trusted by industrial frontrunners arStarting Price: $425/month -
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Soptle
Soptle
Our goal is to make FMCG distribution equitable and more financially rewarding for the FMCG manufacturer community. A technology platform that powers manufacturers, distributors/wholesalers, and retailers with innovative products and trade services. Real-time tracking of procurement input and KPIs. Quickly access a specific sample or purchase order and analyze the procurement status directly from our interface. Track real-time production at factories and maintain a smooth material flow between departments. Generate demand from existing supply chain (distributor/wholesaler) through Soptle tech-enabled mobile application and decrease work time and increase efficiency by identifying the real machine of demand generation. Configure multiple payables and receivables in the factory to get real-time input of each and every transaction easily. Earn higher margins and a vast range of product alternatives on the Soptle app.Starting Price: Free -
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ShopXpert
ShopXpert
ShopXpert is a high-performance, fully integrated manufacturing software designed to support your entire manufacturing operation, minimizing data entry and increasing productivity. It offers automation to decrease manual procedures and inefficiencies that can slow down job shop performance. The software includes a range of modules such as standard modules, supplier portal, outsource management, jobs, employee portal, vending, costing tool, forms, tasks, workstation, training notes, academy, time clock, in-app messaging, storage, and QR codes. These modules provide functionalities like dashboard access, customer and supplier management, document storage, customizable forms, task scheduling, employee time tracking, and real-time communication with suppliers. Allows employees to efficiently manage jobs from their tablets or mobile devices, reducing the need to be tied to a desktop workstation.Starting Price: $200 per month -
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REALTRAC
Mindbridge Systems
Based in Livonia, Michigan, Realtrac Performance ERP is a leading software provider that specializes in manufacturing software for job shops and modular machine shops. Realtrac’s ERP software solution provides in-depth analysis of a company’s current and past status, thereby allowing the organization to make smart, educated decisions to maximize the return on investment. Easy to learn and use, Realtrac’s ERP software enables businesses to monitor shop operations, schedule workflows, track inventories, manage purchases and report business operations in real-time.Starting Price: $169.00/month -
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Datacor ERP
Datacor
Datacor ERP is a fully integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solution created by Datacor specifically designed for the process manufacturing and chemical distribution industries. Datacor ERP helps integrate the entire business environment by connecting people, procedures, and departments across all operations. Features specific to process manufacturers include Cradle-to-Grave lot tracking and cfr21Part 11 compliance. Distribution-specific features include rebates, price support (CUPS), and multi-source purchasing. Benefits: - Streamline production and quality from a single-source solution - Ensure top-of-the-line products from formulation to shipments - Manage order entry, ensure accurate invoicing and optimize selling - Improve efficiency, inventory accuracy and executive decision-making - Integrate government reporting requirements with business operations for hassle-free compliance -
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ePROMIS Manufacturing
ePROMIS Solutions
Manage and optimize spends on raw materials. Automate the procurement process, including accepting/rejecting vendor quotes and paying invoices. Track metrics that matter the most to you and stay atop critical business processes. Enhance your decision-making process with actionable insights and data-backed reports. Determine the cost for new and existing orders along with the expected date of completion to ensure timely delivery and customer satisfaction while maximizing profit. Get real-time access to available inventory and inventory in transit. Manage multiple warehouses, know when it is time to order materials, and stay atop their expiration dates. Empower your employees to collaborate in real-time to discuss issues, share work instructions, and alert workers to ensure compliance. -
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Kerridge Manufacturing
Kerridge Commercial Systems
Our manufacturing software is a fully integrated solution for your manufacturing business. Combining a suite of modules, our software automates, tracks and monitors all of your manufacturing processes precisely. Delivering real-time visibility to detect and resolve quality or customer issues, our manufacturing solution allows you to concentrate on delivering a quality service with cost, quality, and regulatory management in mind. Whatever your manufacturing industry sector, our solution gives you the flexibility to choose from a range of functionality to suit your specific business and fulfill your ERP requirements. Within our core modules you can choose from a range of sub-modules to ensure you have the exact functionality to suit your business. We have a proven track record of implementing systems for manufacturing companies with the capability to meet even the most complex of business needs. -
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businessMATE
businessMATE Software
If yours is an enterprise that needs to streamline time-consuming areas, then businessMATE is the application for you. By reducing your routine and complex operations to simple one-click functions, we help you save precious time. businessMATE offers flexible and scalable business application services and solutions. Stay ahead of the line and keep your business operations future-proof with our ever-evolving products that are performance-oriented and in sync with changing business strategies. What we do is we automate and thus, simplify the core business processes for you. It saves time and effort. Data analysis and performance recognition made it easy to take and implement lucrative business decisions. Cross-platform and multi-device operability lets you work seamlessly on PC, MAC and offers mobile access via laptop, iPhone & iPad. A state-of-the-art business application that matches varying business demands and syncs with evolving business strategies. -
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Deltek Costpoint
Deltek Costpoint
Increase profitability and improve project success for government contractors with Costpoint Manufacturing by bringing efficiency and digitalization to the operations process—from bid to shipment. Tie all data to financials in one secure system; paper processes are digitalized as data is captured, stored and analyzed in real-time, down to the project level. Consistently collect and allocate costs and simplify adherence to contract requirements by including traceability and contract flow downs. Withstand interruptions with modernized, flexible and integrated automation for visibility into changes and process control. Connect and automate processes between finance and production for improved accuracy, true costs and audit readiness. Leverage contract flow downs and organizational, project and part security. And automate traceability on every transaction. -
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InstantGMP
InstantGMP
If you’re relying on multiple software and/or paper-based solutions to manage your compliance and manufacturing process needs, InstantGMP™ could be the key that unlocks the next level of success for your business potential. Seamlessly maximize production uptime, improve batch quality and meet all FDA compliance needs—and more—all with an affordable, paperless, all-in-one software solution. InstantGMP™ products work individually and together based on your business needs to deliver comprehensive, integrated software solutions that ensure end-to-end quality, consistency and GMP compliance. We’ll help you pick the right solution set for your business needs today, and tomorrow. Organize, manage and document batches electronically while reinforcing good manufacturing practices. Inventory Management Solution that meets Part 11 and GMP requirements. Complete quality system that comes with SOPs, templates and guided workflows - ideal for virtual biotech. -
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HYDRA Software
MPDV USA
You monitor, control and optimize your production continuously with HYDRA X. You can therefore keep an eye on all resources at all times and design your production processes to be as efficient as possible. Digitization in production is unstoppable! Companies that want to produce efficiently need HYDRA X. The functional range of HYDRA X goes far beyond that of a classic Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and also includes support processes such as intralogistics or operator guidance in complex assembly processes. Since HYDRA X is platform-based, it can be easily extended in terms of functionality. -
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3YOURMIND
3YOURMIND
Additive doesn’t exist in isolation. AM processes need to communicate with other software systems, provide quality assurance, and work in the highest security environments. In order to support enterprise production, we ensure that our software is built to integrate. We support complex on-premises installations and provide a well documented API to send order information, optimized 3D files, tracking information and production data to a company’s existing enterprise software. We understand how to deploy our software into these critical environments and include a change management process to synchronize with your company’s way of work. -
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PILOT:Suite
FELTEN
These days, companies need state-of-the-art manufacturing IT to produce efficiently. A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) such as PILOT:MES from Felten integrates optimization, quality and energy management in production on a market-leading high-tech platform. Production thereby achieves a maximum degree of flexibility and business processes are truly integrated. The pharmaceutical industry is under increasing competitive and profit pressure, not least from reforms in the healthcare system. From this arises the specific requirement to optimize costs, especially in the production area. More than three quarters of consumers in Germany attach great value to a well-groomed appearance. On the other hand the market is under strong competitive pressure, demanding quick responses and continual new product ideas. This has a direct impact on the production sector, requiring a high degree of flexibility as well as cost-effective processes. -
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Compass & HQ
Scout Systems
We are passionate about collecting the right kind of data. Our mission is to provide ethical manufacturers all over the world with the tools to collect, interpret, and uncover valuable insights that help them compete. Scout Systems was initially born out of a need to collect data from one of the largest black spots in any manufacturing facility - it’s operator's actions. We began developing the first conceptual designs for the present-day Tracker prototypes in October 2014 because the manufacturing world needed a way to easily read nearly any signal type from one single unit. This brought forth the power to collect operator-based actions through a myriad of sensor options. We quickly realized that not only was there a need for the hardware to collect the signals, but the industry was in need of a cloud-based application that could give management the power to sift through the resulting data. Scout Systems developed a suite of web-based applications to complement the hardware.Starting Price: $30.00/month -
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Reveal Plant Floor Intelligence
Trumble
Manufacturing software tool that take data collection and transforms data into real-time data analytics putting the information into the hands of the floor personnel that can make the difference now! Plant Floor Intelligence is Reveal's Industry 4.0 solution for the plant floor that offers proactive control of factory processes through the marriage of artificial intelligence and human intelligence. The result is minimized losses and maximized revenue. Reveal AI software is the decision engine and artificial intelligence that powers PFI. Reveal monitors the entire manufacturing value stream 24/7 and automatically alerts the right people to take action before losses occur. PFI is a turnkey solution consisting of our Reveal product—deployed and pre-configured, rapid adoption services, and standardized operating procedures that transform people on the factory floor into an army of proactive problem solvers. -
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MyPlantFloor
Agilitec BV
MyPlantFloor is a software platform designed to support manufacturers in improving their production processes and optimizing overall factory performance.Starting Price: €150 per production line -
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XMPro
XMPro
Improve operational excellence, reduce risk and increase asset utilization with XMPro's IoT Application Suite. XMPro integrates IoT solutions into existing business workflows to enable smarter business decision-making. The platform comes with integration capabilities to connect disparate systems securely, event stream processing for processing large volumes of data from various data sources in real-time, analytics, IoT device management, and more. -
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infoBoard Planning Board
infoBoard USA
Planning your own resources helps you, approx. 25.000, - EUR, which you would otherwise have as personnel expenses in meetings with dubious results. The most important planning task is the sequence of the work plans. You can flexibly set and change tasks on the infoBoard planning board. Analysis tools like CCPM in the Enterprise Edition show you the quality of your planning. If you have a simple task, use Excel. The complexity of the scheduling in the enterprise develops if your enterprise grows. Then there will be more orders, with more employees with more machines and more vehicles. The amount also gives you complexity. Every employee and every object has its own characteristics and availability. With the infoBoard planning board qualification matrix, you not only depict availability but also the qualified possibilities of your operational planning. Nothing can go wrong. Web apps and apps make the planning board a handy appointment calendar. -
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FORCAM MES FLEX
FORCAM
MES FLEX is the holistic MES solution for the digitalization of the factory. The integration platform serves as the central data hub of your smart factory. It helps you analyze, plan, control, and optimize your manufacturing processes through modular MES (Manufacturing Execution System) applications. Thanks to its modular structure, the solution can be adapted to your individual needs and goals.
