Introduction
The Infor MES Skills Matrix functionality provides a centralised system for defining, assigning, enforcing, and maintaining employee skills. This functionality ensures workers possess the required skills to safely and efficiently perform manufacturing tasks. These tasks include operating machinery, quality inspections, maintenance, and tooling operations.
Consistent evaluation and application of skills across operations and transactions, ensures that business processes are performed accurately. This approach builds customer and user confidence and identifies skill gaps and training requirements. Additionally, enhances resource planning and compliance for specific tasks.
Supervisors can define skills and assign skill restrictions to various skill types for operators in production. Infor MES provides predefined skills for various transactions and applies these skills to various competency levels. Supervisors can specify the expiration dates for skills, enabling supervisors to track when operators require re-training.
These are the key benefits of the skills matrix capabilities in Infor MES:
- Enhances compliance with regulatory and internal skill requirements
- Improves quality, safety, and compliance
- increases operator efficiency by preventing unskilled task performance, which reduces rework and downtime
- Enables data-driven decisions for efficient workforce deployment
- Supports proactive training and succession planning by identifying missing or expiring skills
- Supports audits and investigations by capturing skill usage for Infor MES tasks
- Provides a foundation for future ERP integration to unify employee and production data