WFX · Deployed with our partners
What the floor did,while it is still today.
Production captured at the workstation, quality captured at the point of inspection, downtime captured when the line stops. Not written up at the end of the shift, by which time the only thing left to do about it is explain it.
WFX MES is a WFX product. Diverzent leads pre-sales in this region, implements it jointly with WFX consultants, and supports it locally.
The problem it solves
Yesterday’s efficiency is a post-mortem.
Most floors know their numbers. They know them the following morning, assembled from hourly boards, checker sheets and a supervisor’s recollection, by which point the shift they describe is over and the decision that would have mattered was available at ten o’clock.
The same is true of quality. A defect found at end-line is a defect that has already been sewn into every bundle behind it, and tracing it back to the operation and the operator that caused it depends on somebody remembering.
MES moves the capture to the moment. Output at the workstation, defects at the point of inspection with the operation and operator attached, downtime logged with a reason when the line stops — so the intervention happens during the shift rather than being described after it.
Knowing yesterday’s efficiency changes nothing about yesterday.
On the floor
What it looks like where it actually runs.
A terminal at every operator, reporting as the work happens. The screens above are the product; this is the part of it a sewing operator touches.
Photographs from a factory running WFX MES, taken on site. Faces are not identifiable and nothing legible in frame carries a buyer, an order or an individual. The floor belongs to the manufacturer, not to Diverzent or to WFX.
What sits inside it
Six systems on one floor.
Output where it happens.
Live capture at the workstation, with several capture methods because no two factories have the same floor, the same literacy assumptions or the same tolerance for hardware.
- Touch, QR and NFC capture — chosen per factory and per process rather than imposed.
- Workstation-level and line-level tracking, both live.
- Real-time dashboards, plus a dedicated Android TV application for floor displays.
- A Kanban view and a digital traffic light system, so the floor can see its own state without being told it.
The software
The floor, as management sees it.
Four screens from WFX’s own MES presentation. Note what is missing from all of them: a person walking the floor with a clipboard at the end of the shift.
Screens from WFX’s own product presentations, reproduced with the product they belong to. Every image was reviewed at full resolution and anything carrying a buyer, a supplier, an individual or an order number was left out — the underlying data belongs to WFX’s customers and is not ours to publish. What you would see in a demonstration is your own data, not this.
Implementation
The part that decides whether this works.
WFX’s own deck says it plainly: if you cannot take full ownership, you should not start this project. We agree, and we would rather say so before a purchase order than after one.
- Seven weeks, four phases
- Pre-visit training online, go-live training on site, handholding on site, then dedicated remote support. Go-live falls within two to three days of the on-site week.
- A project leader from the top
- Someone from leadership who owns it, reviews it, sets the KPI targets each team is held to, and removes obstacles. Not a delegated role.
- A dedicated coordinator
- Two years or more in IE, production or quality. Runs the daily and weekly meetings, and is accountable for data accuracy.
- At least five champions
- People who know production, IE principles, lean and quality. They train the driving team and the management team, and they monitor the SOP.
- Two per line on the floor
- Supervisors, line leaders and quality controllers who retrain end users, escalate in real time, and do the hourly monitoring. This is where adoption is won or lost.
- Who turns up
- Seasoned WFX consultants for the product depth, Diverzent consultants for the local half — same time zone, on your floor when it matters, and integration into your ERP and ProactivePlan. We are also the ones who will have the uncomfortable early conversation about whether the team above actually exists yet.
Start with one line.
MES is not a system to roll out across a factory on faith. Put it on one line, run it for a month against the line next to it, and decide from that.
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