GUARDUS MES with the New Module for the Employee Qualification

Intelligent Competence Mapping in Quality and Production Management

From now on, the Manufacturing Execution System of GUARDUS Solutions AG from Ulm provides transparency in the operative employee qualification of quality and production management. The new GUARDUS MES module focuses on the updated overview of all of the required performance features for each workplace or process as well as the exact assignment to the employees concerned. Due to a detailed matrix, the responsible persons can identify all the relevant relations between the employee, task, competence requirement, degree of fulfilment as well as training at a glance. The module provides information about important aspects of time such as the period of validity of trainings and certifications as well as the necessity of refreshers.

The smooth and reliable organisation of processes in quality and production management requires not only professional IT support, but also adequate know-how regarding the personnel, since the diverse processes and the technically sophisticated equipment require explicitly trained employees. Moreover, the spectrum and complexity of many task areas increase exponentially. “In the last two decades, the image of the employee has intensely changed in the quality and production environment. Due to the implementation of operators’ self-controls, run controls, integrated laboratory inspections, the traditional quality control has changed into process and planning-oriented quality and production management. Parallel to these changes, the required qualifications and additional trainings have also been submitted to significant changes. Severe customer specifications (as in the case of audits) as well as the regulations of international authorities, such as the FDA also increase the pressure to further train the personnel and to have the corresponding certificates for these trainings”, said Simone Cronjäger, member of the executive board of GUARDUS Solutions AG, commenting the operative QM concerns of many industrial companies.

In order to be informed about the MES relevant qualification level of each employee, many industrial companies, especially in the field of medical technology and automotive, use self-programmed isolated applications which cover the status and the necessity of qualification measures. From now on, this information is fully integrated and available in GUARDUS MES. By means of an intelligent connection between the factors “performance features/specialised know-how, “roles/activities” and “personnel qualification”, the GUARDUS MES user creates a three-dimensional competence map in quality and production management. It is in this way that, on the one hand, missing or limited qualifications can be easily identified with a mouse-click and, on the other hand, the trainings that the employee has participated in will be comfortably added to his/her profile. The trainings will be documented by saving the corresponding certificates, confirmations or diplomas in the MES.  

Moreover, the GUARDUS MES module for employee qualification will provide an easy way to establish short-term regulations concerning substitution as well as efficient plans of initiation into new tasks. With the matrix of the new module, you can also easily set up teams from several departments and having various competences in real-time. The GUARDUS MES user filters the personnel master according to the desired performance features being provided with the employees who have the corresponding qualification.