ASophia Asia Systems Pte Ltd (ASophia) and PHILIPS Singapore Pte Ltd (PHILIPS) today kicked off a proof of concept (POC) implementation of ASophia’s Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solution on the Steam Promoter line at PHILIPS Domestic Appliance and Personal Care (DAP) manufacturing facility in Singapore. The POC implementation is aimed at demonstrating the power of the ASophia MES solution in enhancing the visibility of manufacturing operations to the management and the capability of the solution in acquiring the vital pieces of information required from production processes in real-time and presenting it in a consistent and easy-to-understand manner, for maximizing the capabilities of the production process and increasing productivity.

The system is required to monitor, record and report Key Performance Indices (KPI) of the Steam Promoter line and individual modules within the line. The implementation will cover factory floor dispatching,  resource tracking, QC data collection, analysis and reporting functionality. It will track and report on key manufacturing performance Indices (KPI) including  Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), production output, Performance Ratio, machine downtimes, machine stoppages, cycle time, changeover time, scraps, process yields etc.

Based on the results of this POC implementation, PHILIPS will decide on the roll-out of the system to the rest of the production lines in Singapore and their sister plant in Batam, Indonesia. ASophia and PHILIPS are confident that the implementation of the ASophia MES solution will bring substantial benefits to PHILIPS's production operations.

 Background:

ASophia Asia Systems is a provider of state-of-the-art software solutions for the manufacturing industry. It was founded in June 2002. Its software solutions are based on technology developed over a 7-year period (since 1995) by a team of European software engineers. ASophia develops and markets the ASophia family of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Software. ASophia targets the automotive, textile, electronics & microelectronics, food and Pharmaceutical industries in Europe and the Asia Pacific. It has built up a team of strong R&D Engineers, Sales and marketing staff in Singapore to enhance and develop the product and to market the product in the Asia-Pacific region. It also maintains a strong team of sales, marketing, implementation and support staff in France to serve the European market.

Philips Singapore is one of the top multinational companies operating in Singapore. Philips Domestic Appliances & Personal Care (DAP) Factory, located at Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim in Singapore is the global competence centre for Philips irons & hairdryers sold worldwide. Philips is the number one, best selling brand of irons in the world.