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HYDRA Features

Module ADE

Production Order Data Management: HYDRA-ADE ...

... to achieve highest order data transparency !

With HYDRA you use complete and actual data to monitor and evaluate your production orders, covering all operations or processes within. Thus, accurate details about status and progress of production orders are available, serving to objectively analyze and control manufacturing costs along the internal supply chain.

Basic Performance Measures:
Automatic download of production orders / operations from any ERP-/APS-system
Generation of production- and overhead cost orders
Merging orders (or group operations), splitting orders / operations
Registration / de-registration and interruption of orders / operations
Registration / de-registration of persons or groups
Configurable terminal dialogs for capturing actual data of any kind, as well as provision of all relevant order data (BOM's, drawings, instructions, videos, plans) towards the shop floor
Powerful environment for viewing, evaluation and planning - just a mouseclick away!
Near real-time feedback of actual data to the ERP-system

Module MDE

Machine Data Management: HYDRA-MDE ...

... to know at all times what’s going on at your machines and workstations !

With HYDRA you monitor your machines and/or manual labor workstations completely and permanently. Various monitoring- and evaluation-tools provide all necessary detailed information about current and past statuses and events of all resources.


Basic Performance Measures:
Automatic recording of cycles and quantities
Automatic detection of production and standstill
Configurable machine park for online monitoring (machines, material buffers, terminals)
Capturing of standstill reasons or disturbances
Powerful surveys and evaluations, including OEE-Index functions - with just a few mouseclicks!
Integrated maintenance scheduling calendar
Interfaces to various maintenance systems

Module HLS

Shop Floor Planning (Graphical Capacity Planning / Sequence Planning): HYDRA-HLS ...

... to detect bottlenecks and avoid capacity- & time conflicts at all times

With HYDRA-HLS you plan production orders and their operations, respectively, under consideration of all required resources (machines, workstations, staff, material and tools) and their availability as a result of earlier planning cycles

Basic Performance Measures:
Gantt Chart with display levels for operations, production orders, project orders, tools & resources, staff requirements
Alternative table-based planning facilities (drag&drop and/ automatic), as well as combined grid-table & Gantt Chart based planning environments
Full integration with the online actual data feedback from the shop floor at all times (Seamless integration with the module HYDRA-ADE). Your planning situation is always up to date.
Display of capacity utilization in various display modes
Consideration of resources availability
Optimization of machine occupation
Automatic machine- and/or workplace assignment
Various planning strategies (i.e. setup optimization, lowest WIP levels, least delivery delays, etc)
Strategy definitions for reduction of throughput time
Offline simulation of work shift and utilization modifications
Optimization of individual capacities
Monitoring of material and stock levels
Numerous tables and evaluations
Interfaces to ERP- and other planning systems.

Module MPL

Planning, Viewing and Tracing of Material Batches: HYDRA-MPL ...

... to optimize and trace your material flow along your multi-operational production chain !

With HYDRA you monitor and control the flow of material across all operations, intermediate stocks and material buffers. By means of the integrated traceability of defined batches, you document the origin of your products and thus obtain the complete product history.


Basic Performance Measures:
Monitoring of material flow in production
Material planning for short term production control
Consideration of minimum storage times and/or life times / expiry dates
Visualization of material buffers before, between and after operations
Material and product traceability
Batch traceability (Compliance with TS16949 in Automotive, supporting FDA Compliance according to 21 CFR Part 11 in Pharma and F&B)
Production order monitoring and traceability
Calculation of the time equivalent of material, intermediate products and semi-finished products stock levels Special functions for roll & coil traceability

Module WRM

Tool-, Mold- and Resources Management: HYDRA-WRM ...

... to check current availability, to trace the lifecycle history as well as to plan the future deployment of your tools & resources !

With HYDRA-WRM you have an easy-to-use instrument for efficient administration of tools, molds and other resources. HYDRA makes your tool organization more systematic and reduces your stock of tools, and furthermore schedules all necessary maintenance activities.


Basic Performance Measures:
Administration of the stock of tools, resources, molds, fixtures
Automatic recording of time, status and quantities, in integration with HYDRA-ADE and -MDE
Tool maintenance scheduling
Tool availability check in the framework of detailed planning in integration with HYDRA-HLS
Combination of article, material, production order, machine and tool
Tool history / lifecycle
Monitoring of standstill times, utilization degrees
Comfortable management of modular molds and fixtures: Configurable BOM's for mother-fixtures and multiple related daughter-modules

Module DNC

Management of CNC Programs & Machine Settings: HYDRA-DNC ...

... to comfortably handle all necessary NC/CNC-programs or parameter settings for your machines !

With HYDRA-DNC it is comfortably possible to administrate and allocate specific CNC-programs or machine control settings, according to specific influencing attributes, such as production order, ambient parameters (temperature, etc), material types and -grades, tool- or mold versions/modifications, and many more.

Basic Performance Measures:
Interfaces to all usual machines of all types
Maintenance, monitoring and administration of NC sets
Automatic download to shop floor terminals
Choice functions for NC programs
DNC-Viewer at he shop floor terminals
Save and update / upload of renewed and modified programs
NC Statistics

Module PDV

Monitoring and recording Process Parameters: HYDRA-PDV ...

... to get a grip on all your physical process parameters !

With HYDRA-PDV, all process parameters of your machines (pressure, speed, temperature, time, flow, voltage, current, conductivity, purity, etc) or your production environment (ambient temperature, ambient humidity, air purity, etc) can comfortably be recorded, online-monitored and visualized, as well as historically evaluated in list, graphics and protocols. Process protocols can be inter-related to articles, tools, machines or production orders. A perfect traceability tool in accordance with all major quality standards!


Basic Performance Measures:
Management of test criteria and measuring channels
Assignment of test criteria to machines, parts and tools
Collection and storage of process data
Monitoring of intervention limits and tolerance limits
Protocols of process disturbances
Online display of process states
Evaluations of process disturbances
Process protocols and lists of alarms (process disturbances, excesses of tolerances and/or notification limits) Interface to CAQ systems

Module CAQ

Integrated Quality along the supply chain: HYDRA-CAQ ...

... because the true value of quality only appears when there is a lack of it !

The dramatic consequences of missing quality are unhappy customers, loss of revenues and damage to the image that can hardly be compensated again. This is why MPDV has made quality part of their core business by developing the integrated product HYDRA-CAQ on the HYDRA-platform. The result is a future-oriented software that convinces by its modular structure, its user-friendliness and its ample evaluation possibilities. HYDRA-CAQ may be used stand-alone for quality assurance only or as an integrated solution along with other HYDRA modules in production and human resources management. All departments of a company benefit from HYDRA-CAQ: purchasing, material input test, supplier evaluation, production (via mobile and fixed data collection) and finally after-sales service via the reclamations- or claims management. HYDRA-CAQ's modular structure allows you to use various modules, alone or in synergistic combination, just as you require.

Available CAQ-Modules:
Test planning & scheduling
Incoming goods testing / Outgoing goods (finished goods) testing
Supplier evaluation
Prototype testing / First sample testing
Integrated testing during production / SPC
Reclamations / Claims management incl. workflow
Testing equipment management & -maintenance; Gage Calibration
Non-conformity analysis
Action management / Workflow
Global information system (GIS)

Module PZE/PEP


Time- & Attendance Control of your staff: HYDRA-PZE

Staff-Allocation to your machines/workplaces: HYDRA-PEP ...

... to increase the operational safety, reliability and simplicity of your personnel & staff management !

HYDRA-PZE evaluates your employees' presence and absence times, planned or unplanned. The integrated time management calculates the wage types for each employee on the basis of the individual or shared remuneration models.

In addition, HYDRA-PEP is a comfortable and powerful integrated tool to allocate your personnel/staff to your production machines / workplace that have a defined manpower requirement to be operated. Depending on the actually scheduled workload, the staff requirement is always up to date. Plausibility checks on staff qualification and availability round the complete package up.


Basic Performance Measures:
Comprehensive functions at the personnel clocking terminal (Windows-based, DOS-based, others)
Survey on personnel presence and personnel absence
Individual calculation rules for single employees, employee groups, departments, companies
Configurable pause/break handling
Flextime models incl. flexible account limits
Keeping various time accounts and wage accounts
Allocation of working times to wage types
Absence schedules incl. supervision of continued wage payment
Numerous tabular surveys and evaluations
Individual time sheets incl. archiving functions
Personnel resource planning
Interfaces to salary accounting systems
Allocation of staff to machines/workplace
Plausibility checks on current and future availability and qualification of staff
Time frame based validity of staff-allocations to cost centers/departments, incl. automatic adjustment of remuneration models for each individual person

Module LLE

Performance-based Incentive Pay for Workers: HYDRA-LLE ...

... to make sure that your staff receives exactly the incentives they deserve – not more not less!

With HYDRA-LLE you get reliable and consistent data for the performance-based remuneration of your employees. And this is based on data that are automatically provided via the HYDRA-ADE/MDE-modules and the PZE-module in HYDRA.


Basic Performance Measures:
Premium Remuneration for single-, team- and group work
Taking quantity characteristics and adherence to schedules into account
Supplements / deductions to compensate special work conditions
Rules for the incentive pay / premium remuneration and time wage
Individual configurations to define special situations of individual piecework
Highly flexible formula-based remuneration models possible
Numerous surveys and evaluations
Data transfer to various PAYROLL systems

Module ZKS

Access Control for your Factory and Buildings: HYDRA-ZKS ...

... to protect the safety of your factory, buildings and departments / zones !

With HYDRA-ZKS you control and monitor the access authorizations of your employees and visitors. The complete integration into the Time- & Attendance Control module and the multi-purpose use of the clocking terminals has a synergistic effect on your cost of investment.


Basic Performance Measures:
Can be used for up to 10.000 employees at once
Safe identifying procedures for ID badges
Individual access profiles for individuals and groups
Permanent opening hours during selected times and days of the week
Assignment of exceptional authorizations
Survey on the current status of accesses
Protocols of alarms and disturbances
Protocols of accesses and access attempts
Management of Time Zones and High Security or Safety Zones
Elevator multi-level access control for individual staff
Visitors guestbook functions for receptions, incl. integrated safety briefings and other individual visitor management processes

Module Hydr@WEB MES-Cockpit

The Hydr@WEB MES-Cockpit ...

... to gather data from production, personnel and quality from wherever you are, through your browser!
The web-based Hydr@Web MES-Cockpit allows to quickly & comfortably view all most relevant informations from the operatiosn field at a glance - just by the click of the mouse. Suiting everybody's individual interest, the MES-Cockpit allows a drill-down to any kind of detailed data on the levels of plant, cost center, group or single workplace/machine. The web user simply derives all desired KPI's at now time, and therefore engages in a real-time control process, based on a highly transparent information platform with high data integrity.

With the Hydr@Web MES-Cockpit you can furthermore clock in/out from any place in the world via Internet, verify working time and holiday accounts, plan absences or look up in the attendance list, who is present or absent. Or simply check the status of a selected production order or of a selected machine, or simply check the current production yield of a complete department or cost center. Wherever you are in the world, simply log in through the next available internet access point and check out what’s going on back home in your company … or simply catch an online view of your production environment in your overseas facilities!
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