These problems are quietly eating into factory profit and delivery
Planners schedule in Excel and re-plan whenever an order changes. Equipment, material and labor readiness is all worked out by hand, so any rush or inserted order throws the plan into chaos and delivery becomes hard to commit.
Machines, PLCs and CNC devices each speak their own language. Utilization, output and downtime are logged by hand, so management can't see the real-time state of the shop floor and decisions lag behind.
When a batch defect requires a recall, material batches, process parameters, operators and inspection records are scattered across paper forms, making forward and backward tracing difficult and accountability unclear.
Sales has no visibility into shop-floor progress; when customers chase orders, sales can only call the workshop. WIP, queued and to-be-inspected data is opaque, and delivery commitments are pure guesswork.
Custom development + low-code + ERP, delivered to your factory's real processes
Work order dispatch, scan-based reporting, WIP tracking, electronic dashboards and error-proofing digitize the entire production process — progress visible in real time.
Auto-schedule by equipment capacity, material readiness and delivery priority; reschedule inserted and rush orders in one click, freeing planners from Excel.
Acquire equipment data via OPC-UA / Modbus / MQTT; utilization, output, downtime and energy use upload in real time — no more manual logging.
Bind material, parameters, operators and inspection data by batch/process/SN; trace forward and backward in one click, with evidence for recalls and accountability.
A visual big screen of shop-floor layout and line status maps equipment, work orders, quality and energy to a twin dashboard — full overview at a glance.
Connect purchasing, outsourcing, warehousing and sales orders; material-readiness alerts, online outsourcing progress and traceable delivery keep upstream and downstream on one board.
Built on Hoobang's Trade / Production ERP, the SoHelp low-code platform and CRM: standard modules built fast with low-code, industry processes delivered by custom development — fast to launch, true to the floor.
Around the full chain of "plan - produce - quality - equipment - deliver", 6 modules broken down one by one
Release work orders to the line, scan to start and report, log defects and tally labour hours on the spot. The floor goes paperless and every operation flows straight back to the system, so progress is always current.
Auto-schedule by capacity, material availability and delivery date, then fine-tune on a visual Gantt chart. When an urgent order is inserted, the whole plan reschedules instantly so the floor always runs the optimal sequence.
Connect PLC, CNC, injection machines and more to capture run status automatically. Utilisation, OEE and downtime reasons are tallied live and alerted the moment a machine stops, so reaction time drops from hours to seconds.
Incoming, in-process and finished-goods inspection with SPC analysis flag problems early. Forward-and-backward batch tracing means any defect can be traced to its source and any affected lot recalled in seconds, not days.
Run material-readiness checks before release, manage line-side stores, and handle inbound, outbound and stocktaking online. Inventory and production are linked in real time, so shortages are flagged before they ever stop a line.
Multi-dimensional dashboards and big screens cover output, utilisation, yield and on-time delivery. Management and the shop floor look at the same live numbers, so decisions are made on facts instead of end-of-day reports.
A real-world manufacturing digitalization practice
Questions you may have about the smart manufacturing solution
It fits everything from a single workshop of a few dozen people to a multi-site group with thousands of employees. Hoobang uses a modular, low-code architecture: smaller plants can start with core modules such as MES scheduling and quality traceability for quick wins, while larger groups can roll out APS scheduling, equipment IoT, digital twin and supply chain collaboration site by site and workshop by workshop, avoiding a single huge upfront investment.
Yes. On the equipment side it supports mainstream industrial protocols such as OPC-UA, Modbus and MQTT, plus data acquisition from PLCs, CNC machines, injection machines and SCADA. On the system side, open APIs connect it with ERPs such as Yonyou, Kingdee, SAP and Oracle, as well as WMS, PLM and CRM, syncing orders, work orders, inventory and inspection data both ways — no need to start over.
Both. Standard business (work orders, reporting, inspection points, quality checks, dashboards, etc.) is built quickly and configured visually on Hoobang's SoHelp low-code platform for fast, flexible delivery, while industry-specific processes, complex scheduling algorithms and device protocol parsing are custom-developed by a professional team. This ensures both fast go-live and a fit to the factory's real processes, with room to extend forms and workflows yourself later.
Core MES (reporting, inspection, dashboards) in SaaS mode typically goes into trial operation in 4-8 weeks; an overall solution including APS scheduling, equipment IoT acquisition and digital twin, plus on-premises deployment, usually takes 3-6 months. Cost is calculated based on module scope, the number of connected devices, the amount of custom development and the deployment model. For a tailored plan and quote, please call our inquiry hotline 400-003-2253 for a one-on-one assessment.
It supports three modes — public-cloud SaaS, private cloud and on-premises deployment to local servers — so core data such as processes, formulas and drawings can stay entirely on the company's intranet. The system provides multi-tier permissions by group-factory-workshop-station, field-level encryption and full operation audit logs, meeting the requirements of confidential workshops and system audits.
Typical improvements include: production scheduling shifting from manual Excel to automated system scheduling for faster planning response; real-time shop-floor data acquisition letting managers see equipment utilization, WIP and bottlenecks on dashboards; quality issues being traceable forward and backward by batch/process for more efficient recalls and accountability; and order progress being transparent to sales and customers for more reliable delivery commitments. The exact gains vary with the factory's baseline and the modules deployed, so we recommend using pilot-workshop data as the reference.
A dedicated consultant gives you a one-on-one assessment and an actionable digital roadmap that fits your processes and existing systems