Prabakar P. Selvam founded Cantier Systems with the mission to provide industry-specific, configurable, manufacturing software that assists customers to realize the benefits faster than implementing generic ERPs and Manufacturing systems. With head office in Singapore, Cantier provides Industry 4.0 aligned MES Software (Manufacturing Execution System) to customers in Asia Pacific. Cantier’s mission has always been to offer integrated, industry specific manufacturing software for manufacturers at a reasonable cost. Today, Cantier works with some of the giants of manufacturing industry and the list goes like — Texas Instruments, Cypress, IONICS, Allegro Microsystems, Mitsubishi, Shin-Etsu, Toshiba, Hitachi Cables, Hewtech, SUNPOWER and AG&P.

Cantier MES is a SMART Manufacturing-ready Solution that uses IIoT to improve traceability, visibility, quality and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) of the Manufacturing Shop-Floor. This provides real-time and accurate information leading to data-driven decisions. The Key Modules of MES include Product Configuration, Factory Planning, WIP Traceability, Equipment Maintenance, OEE, SPC, Data Collection, Document Control (DCC), and Supply Chain Management.

While many ERPs in the market focus on the financial aspects of the supply chain, Cantier ERP One is designed specifically to help manufacturers to manage and control their manufacturing activities as a single integrated solution, at an affordable price. This provides various benefits to the customer including real time visibility of the shop floor, product and material traceability, timely decision-making based on real data, lower cost of software acquisition and ownership, paperless environment, and overall improved manufacturing cost. Moreover, as the customer needs grow, it’s easy to add Cantier advanced tools such as Equipment Maintenance and SPC in the framework.

In an instance, Cantier deployed its MES Software in an electronics customers’ infrastructure to improve their traceability, quality, and equipment maintenance. With the quality collection from measurements devices, when there will be out-of-control or out-of-Specs, the system provides notifications and if needed it even stops the equipment to avoid poor quality outputs.

Further discussing about his upcoming Industry 4.0 road map, Prabakar is working towards Implementation of Milestones in Electronics customer which is also their bench mark for the other industries and customers. “The customer has at present Islands of applications and not well integrated. They are all relying on manual inputs and not able to communicate with equipment/tools in their factory,” he explains. “They are collecting lot of data, but they are not using them all or analyzing them neither. With our Industry 4.0 Road Map and Implementation, they would become a SMART Factory soon.” concludes Prabakar.

“They are collecting lot of data but they are not using them all or analyzing them neither. With our Industry 4.0 Solutions, they would become a SMART factory soon.”