GQM Software

GQM MES LIMS (inspection planning, laboratory organization, quality assurance, data transparency)

From the inspection of incoming goods to the finished product, the importance of laboratories in the beverage production grows. The administrative, coordinative and legal requirements for the collection, evaluation and documentation of data analysis increase. The early detection of quality deviations enables prompt counteraction. Prompt documentation is the basis of qualified batch tracking and legal protection. The GQM MES LIMS is a means to meet these high requirements. It is a practical tool for sample processing and organized for collection, structuring and evaluation of reliable data analysis.

Recipe management is of same importance for the quality assurance. GQM MES REZ is more than tool to create parts lists. From the beginning of the product development process until the approval of e recipe for the production GQM MES REZ gives a complete overview over the product characteristics (i.e. allergens and nutrition facts), process steps and costs that include components, personal, energy and other expenses.

The more materials are mixed in a rainsing complexity to a growing number of products, the more important is the declaration of the related data. With the specification management tool GQM MES SPEZ all those information are given a manageable and secure “home”. Special information requirements from suppliers and customers can be organized and handed out versatile and multilingual.

Quick Overview LIMS

• test plans as core of the TQM
• individually controlled access permissions
• simple fast entry of data, even for inexperienced staff
• planning of batches and samples, series of samples, sample forms according to freely definable rules and calendars (stage inspections, weekly programs)
• barcode functionality
• organization of the tests on flexible status assignment
• possibility of connection of ERP systems for example lock-release operations in the warehouse
• statistical mass screenings, sampling tests
• assessment of results, depending on the process, the material, the customer (limit violations, deviations from the target, plausibility checks)
• report generator for any statistical analysis, trend detection
• single value representation, weekly monthly annual reports, incident reports, frequency analyzes, certificates, Graphic evaluations with integrated graphics module
• data security and unambiguity of QA results
• e-mail distribution of evaluations to the customer's e-mail system
• recipes to manage part lists, process steps and to control expenses and product properties
• specifications as data base for legal security und information exchange with suppliers and customers

GQM MES Product Overview (recipe and specification management, planning, production, LIMS, WMS, document management)

The GQM offers versatile and comprehensive solutions for the food and beverage industry. The GQM MES is industry software whose modules pick up four important business tasks:

• Reduce costs
• Increase revenues
• Quality assurance and optimization
• Guarantee legal security

For each functional area of the manufacturing company different information is in the field of view. The modules allow all measurable processes to be represented, quantified, qualified and evaluated from the idea to the delivery of the product.

The GQM MES is a solution that lets you combine, condense and steer information. 

The system supprts your complite production prozess to develop products, to plan the production, handle orders, to ensure continuous quality and to optimize processes. GQM MES is the heart of your production between ERP and the process control level.

Our employees come from your industry - brewers, food technologists, ecotrophologists - we speak the language of your company and your employees. 

We know the requirements for the process industry and design our software so that your employees can work with it.

Our software standard meets the requirements of your industry and is based on decades of experience. With individual configurations, we implement your specific requirements.

GQM MES Production (production management, visualization of the manufacturing, data acquisition, key figure calculations)

The Manufacturing Execution System is the functional basis for the control of production processes and evaluation of the data returning from the connected systems. With the link between enterprise resource planning and process control production orders are not only issued but clearly displayed with the help of connected production data acquisition. Manual input at terminals and mobile devices expand the data collection. The uncomplicated handling facilitates the work of the production staff. With a simple user interfaces recipes, batch data and specifications, in addition to actual data, are clear. In case of deviations active intervention in the production processes is possible without delay. With its versatility, the GQM MES Production provides a valuable contribution to transparency and improvement in overall equipment effectiveness.

Quick Overview Production

• Provision and transfer of recipes, control data
• Requirements for manual jobs.
• Automated (event-driven) or cyclic reporting
• Logical integration at the planning level
• Feedback of actual data on production orders or planned orders manually or via interfaces to control systems
• Process transparency, control
• Production protocols, current operating conditions, disorder protocols, cleaning
• Reduction of effectiveness and efficiency losses
• Quality assurance and enhancement
• Process visualization
• Central evaluation and summarization of data for representations of OEE or other effectiveness indicators in real time
• Transferring the compressed BDE (Federal Association of the German Waste Management Industry) data in the ERP level
• Representation and tracking of batches and quantities

GQM MES Planning (Coarse and medium-term planning, scheduling, Gantt cockpit)

The Planning Board is a corporate data melting pot - it connects the requirements, specifications and objectives of all departments to the production orders. The overview of sales targets, inventories of raw materials and operating resources, Plant associations and much more is required for production, bottling and picking and being able to react to short-term demand adjustments. Knowing what resources are available, which must be ordered soon as well as knowing alternatives and deadlines, is just as important as the information about system status and maintenance intervals. Particular attention is given to staffing requirements and scheduling. So that the planner can keep all this information in mind and make informed decisions, the GQM MES Planning provides a tool designed for the practice.

Quick Overview Planning

• Representation of all sales data, inventory and plan proposals
• Representation of order production, anonymous, mixed production, actions
• automatic generation proposal in response to industry-specific parameters
• MRP for all recipe-related components and parts list
• Generation of order proposals for under coverage situations
• Calculation of time needs for the unit allocations, shifts and staffing needs
• Generation of batch proposals and Plant associations and representation in an integrated graphical planning board (Gantt chart, control station)
• Reporting of conflicts
• Transfer the of the planning data in production order data, batches
• Feedback of actual data on production order or planned order manually or through connection to control systems
• Evaluations based on the comparisons of budgeted figures and actual data to make future decisions and processes

GQM MES WMS (warehouse management, control station, order monitor)

The logistics within the company today fulfills a variety of tasks. Warehousing costs money, raw material inventories tie up capital. Stocks must be organized so that goods can really flow, stockouts avoided, stopping and waiting times reduced. The tracing through legal obligation under EU Regulation EU 178/2002 and the coverage of Customs Office legal movements must be guaranteed. The production planning and order processing, as well as the final product quality are directly connected with the organization of the warehouse. In order to meet this great responsibility, house logistics must be transparent and clear. Every path and every move must be traceable for each department. The GQM MES WMS portrays stock in a form which meets these requirements.

Quick Overview Production

• Execute stocks within a narrow time frame
• Manage inventory at the level of items, storage space and pallets or the Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC, according to guidelines of the GS1)
• Minimize stockouts and loading errors
• Ensure the FIFO and FEFO - principles
• Optimization and standardization of the overall sequence order entry, picking, loading and data collation
• Detection of all customs office legal movements
• Identification and archiving of each delivery (delivery note, bill of lading) issued SSCCs according to EU 178/2002
• Controlling the loading of the tour vehicles, the collector vehicles and the delivering vehicles
• Acquisition of loading orders from the superordinate entry system (ERP-system)
• Facilitates the collection of empty containers
• Splitting the loading orders according to loading stations or storage areas
• Generating / processing of order picking orders
• Transport requests for all movements in the warehouse under given restrictions
• Confirmation of the transacted loading orders, including acquired data and any changes to the ERP system
• Support for mobile data collection
• Execution of empty pallet accounts