Use production management software, means choosing an approach to continuous improvement of your production. For good reason, this type of software is a powerful tool for pilot, analyze and manage the organization of your production in real time.
However, what are the differences with a GPAO system? How do you choose the right software among all those on the market? Does performance rhyme with time savings? Does real-time control work for production and distribution?
Synaxe analyze this Industry 4.0 tool for you.
CAPM/production management software: what are the differences?
Production management software: optimizing the monitoring and management of your production processes
One production management software - also called MES (Manufacturing Execution System) - is an intelligent computer system that combines flexibility and agility. As proof, in your careers, it manages, monitors and synchronizes in real time the execution of the physical processes necessary for each stage of production.
To achieve this, the production management software carries out a real coordination work between:
- Multiple work orders
- Production planning
- Business systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems or those related to product lifecycle management (PML)
Like a conductor, the control and production software is connected to all the machines that have connectivity. It thus retrieves all the execution data and can transmit the right information at the right time in real time - both to the teams (instructions, traceability, progress...), but also to the machines (start, stop, parameters...), but also to the machines (start, stop, parameters...).
Crushing, screening, washing... the production management software ensures the complete management of your career in real time with ultra-precise data. Enough to improve the performance of your production chain and gain in profitability!
CAPM solution: from planning to optimizing your production
By GPAO, understand Computer-Aided Production Management. This type of software allows you to plan your production in order to minimize your costs and avoid breakdowns in the production chain. All while respecting your deadline constraints.
How does it work?
In practice, the solution of GPAO collects operational and technical data from each stage of your production, then compares them to maximize results. No more conflicts, burdens or slowdowns... Thanks to CAPM, all the data collected is organized and used in search of maximum optimization.
Productivity, ability to meet your customers' deadlines, compliance with current standards and quality criteria... The GPAO represents a reliable, sustainable and ultimately profitable planning tool. In addition, thanks to its Industrial and Commercial Plan (PIC), its Production Master Plan (PDP) and its Load Plan (PC), it gives you a strategic and operational vision of your production.
Ideal for making strategic choices in accordance with your production constraints, your stocks and the presence of your teams.
CAPM vs production management software: how to choose?
A CAPM solution is ideal for optimize your production chain - in particular through the digitization of manufacturing processes, the management of human resources and your stocks. However, if you are looking for a system that can guide, guide and manage your production as it progresses, it is towards a production management software (more complete) that you need to turn to. The duo “data collection” and “real-time analysis” will allow you to optimize your activity in its entirety: traceability, quality control, production monitoring, organization, preventive and curative maintenance.
Production control software: 5 complementary functionalities
- Data collection
The strength of production management software is its ability to collect data. Manual or automatic, the choice is yours! However, both (or even both) allow you to benefit from an accurate evaluation and analysis of your data at each stage of the extraction, removal, storage, delivery process... A guarantee of flawless traceability, but also of the optimization of the production capacities of your career. As proof, production management software allows you, among other things, to control the planning of your deliveries as well as the cost of transport. How? Thanks to the calculation of your margins in real time for each means of transport, which allows you to maximize the occupancy rate of your vehicles.
- Workforce management
Thanks to the data collected by the production management software, you can identify the assets (qualities, characteristics, etc.) of your teammates as well as of your equipment. The interest? Optimize performance each other by positioning them on tasks that they are more proficient in. But also, guide each employee towards training courses with real added value for them and which will increase their efficiency. Enough to gain, again, in productivity!
- Quality control
Thanks to real-time analysis, you can control the entire quality of your manufacturing process instantly. Enough to quickly identify possible problems in order to better solve them.
- Performance analysis
The real-time monitoring of the production management software makes it possible to react quickly and avoid any delay or stoppage of production. For good reason, in practice, it analyzes the entire functioning of your career and locates all the areas where productivity is insufficient. This is essential information that allows you to make the right decisions - those that allow you to improve the performance of the site day after day (flow management, quality control, water supply, transport of aggregates, etc.).
- Maintenance management
While machine maintenance is essential, the challenge is not to undergo it! This is precisely one of the advantages of production management software. Thanks to the latter and the data it collects, you will be able to avoid unexpected production stoppages, predict the cost of your maintenance operations, limit as much as possible the downtime of your equipment necessary for the extraction and delivery of materials, and optimize the working time of your teams according to the operational machines.
How do I choose my production management software?
Digitalization is now everywhere - including at the gates of your careers. In this sense, a multitude of production management software is available to you. What do they have in common? All are intended to improve the management of your exploitation and extraction sites. However, not all of them have the same features. And it is this difference that should guide your choice of production management software.
Step 1 of a relevant choice: prepare your specifications
Like any project, start by drawing up the specifications for your production management software. To do this, define:
- The functionalities (modules) that you will need immediately, but also in the future. The software selected should be able to follow your evolution.
- The number of users who will use the production management software and their professional profile. Essential to find the software that they can all use and understand without difficulty.
- Your budget.
Then check:
- That the pre-selected solution is suitable for careers. Your production constraints as well as your regulatory requirements (among others) are not the same as those of other activities. The production management software must be able to analyze the data of a structure of your size, then manage its various production processes.
- That the solution interface is compatible with other software (ERP, CMMS, LIMS...). Production management software must be perfectly integrated into your existing information system in order to be able to recover as much data as possible.
- The capabilities of your service provider (supplier of the production management software). Its internal structure should be taken into account insofar as this is a source of advantages. For example, if a large group necessarily has more weight, a human-sized structure will be more flexible.
- The type of support offered with the production management software. Is it national or international support, with a direct telephone number or simply an internet portal? An essential question to avoid blocking and wasting time - especially when getting started or updating the software.
Think about it!
To make a choice that is perfectly adapted to your current and future needs, it is better to conduct a benchmark. This will allow you to compare the various production management software on the market objectively and based on common criteria. To do this, create a comparison table by
objective, discuss with sales representatives and ideally customers of each selected solution, ask for a demo and a personalized model. Enough to project yourself concretely into what will be and what your production management software will bring you.
Step 2 to validate your choice: define criteria not related to functionalities
They are essential and yet are not linked to the functionalities put forward by the suppliers of production management software. They are these 5 criteria:
- The possibility of tailor-made development
- Human support and the responsiveness of support
- Knowledge of the career industry
- The ability to plan for the long term to guarantee a steady evolution
- The proactivity of the salesperson to support you, suggest and present you with innovative features that will be useful to you.
Do you want to start with a GPAO? Here are 3 solutions for the industrial sector
Complete ERP software for industry | Open-Prod The GPAO offered by Open-Prod.com
It was designed for industrial businesses. Configurable and scalable, it provides you with all your production via an ultra-ergonomic interface. Indeed, the latter allows you to simulate, modify, drag and drop, and validate your work orders in just a few clicks. All while keeping up with the load of your resources. An interface within everyone's reach!
Assets:
- More than 180 modules, among 16 functionalities to meet the needs and evolutions of the industrial sector.
- Up to 800 users.
- Open source software developed in France.
- Monitoring of activity in real time thanks to a detailed analysis of technical data.
Sylob ERP
It is a CAPM solution that adapts to industrial production chains to optimize their productivity, efficiency and quality.
Assets:
- Its modules related to commercial management and personnel management are adapted to the problems of the industrial sector.
- Quality, procurement and maintenance management modules are included in the offer.
Downside:
- Poor support in taking care of the solution; very heavy and not regular updates, maintenance stopped in 2025.
Clipper ERP GPAO by Clip Industrie
It allows data to be synchronized and streamlined, while automating tasks. A real tool for monitoring performance and decision support.
Assets:
- While all the functionalities are aimed at managing production, additional modules are available and make it possible to manage everything related to trade, maintenance, quality or even the supply chain.
- Pre-parameterized for most industrial processes.
- Fast deployment.
- Knowledge of industry business issues (30 years of existence).
Downside:
- The solution is openly aimed at certain trades (machining, boilermaking, bar turning and sheet metal/cutting). The functionalities - oriented in advance to these jobs - require a certain adaptation for careers.
Choosing the right one production control software, the one that will allow you to save time and profitability, requires a careful comparison of functionalities. But not only... As you will have understood, the whole challenge is also based on the fact that your teams take control of the software and the capacity of the system to evolve according to the evolution of your market and your needs. In this sense, the choice of service provider must be carefully considered. As for the training and support of your teams, this must be a priority. The guarantee of an optimal adoption rate!
By bringing together three signed products Synaxe (DuneProduction, Effidata, Lattitude), you get a CAPM solution that is perfectly adapted to the expectations and needs of careers in terms of planning and optimizing production. Want to know more? Click here: Synaxe • Solutions