Lighthouse Systems recognised with an "Honorable Mention" in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems

CRAWLEY, U.K., Feb. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Lighthouse Systems is pleased to announce that they have been recognised with an "Honorable Mention" in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems report.

"In the latest Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems, 16 vendors were evaluated," said Tim Barber, Company Director, "so being recognised with an "Honorable Mention" alongside other global software providers is really exciting."

In the 2019 release of the Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems, Gartner says: "The global MES market is a key pillar of smart factories and digital business for manufacturers."

Shopfloor-Online, Lighthouse Systems' MES, provides a comprehensive platform, fully integrated, with functionality across all four areas of manufacturing, i.e. production, quality, maintenance, and inventory/logistics. "With the release of Shopfloor-Online version 7, we have delivered a solution that works across all platforms and devices, prioritising usability for end-users on the factory floor. The customer feedback has been incredible," commented Tim.

"As the pace of the digital transformation increases, we believe that manufacturing organisations need an MES which is easy to deploy and to run. This is now what we are 100% focusing on. We want Shopfloor-Online to be the most out-of-the-box and the most configurable MES available in the market," concluded Tim.

Gartner also named Lighthouse Systems as a Notable Vendor in the Consumer Goods Context: 'Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems'. In this report, Gartner says: "Flexibility and agility are required to support both the tradition of high-volume manufacturing and the emerging challenges of product variant proliferation and the growing demand for personalized or customized product – necessitating both high-mix and high-volume output."

Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems," Rick Franzosa, 29 October 2019
Gartner "Consumer Goods Context: 'Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems'," Rick Franzosa, 29 October 2019

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About Lighthouse Systems:
Lighthouse Systems, a global vendor of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) software, enables Smart Manufacturing through the digitisation of manufacturing processes and operations. With functionalities across production, quality, inventory/logistics, and maintenance, Lighthouse's MES Shopfloor-Online software removes traditional organisational siloes to optimise business processes. Creating an uninterrupted thread of real-time critical data throughout manufacturing operations, the MES enables Industry 4.0 and empowers organisations, from plant operatives to executives, to drive improvement in efficiency, output, compliance and customer satisfaction.

Shopfloor-Online comes with many out-of-the-box functionalities and is highly configurable. The MES is also modular to give organisations the flexibility of a step-by-step approach to digitisation. Web-based, Shopfloor-Online is particularly suited to multi-site rollout and is available in a range of hosting options: on premise, corporate data centre or in the cloud.

Shopfloor-Online is available in 15 languages and deployed in over 50 countries.

The MES is suited to all industry use cases, including: aerospace, automotive (OEM and Tier 1 – Tier 2 suppliers), building and construction, food and beverages, machinery, packaging, pharma / life science, sustainable energy.

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