Three problems every discrete manufacturer in Malaysia eventually runs into.
If two of these are already happening on your floor, the cost of inaction is bigger than the cost of fixing them.
Hidden downtime is eating your margin.
Operators tick a paper sheet "machine down: 30 min" — but actually it was 78 minutes across three micro-stops. By month-end, the gap is 8% of capacity. You cannot fix what you cannot see.
Your MNC customer wants traceability you don't have.
A Tier-1 audit asks: "Show me which raw-material lot went into batch QA-2024-0871." You spend three days digging through paper job tickets. The MNC notes it. Next supplier review, your scorecard drops.
Production data and finance data tell different stories.
D365 says you produced 12,400 units this month. The shop floor logbook says 11,820. Your CFO has stopped trusting the production report. Capacity decisions get made on gut feel, not data.
What goes on your floor — and what goes in your back office.
Discrete manufacturing needs a shop-floor system AND a finance system. Daxonet builds both, integrated. You don't run two vendors arguing about whose API broke.
On the shop floor
- ARC.LITE — free MES entry. Digital work orders, basic OEE, paperless handover. Live in 2-4 weeks.
- ARC.OPS — flagship MES. Real-time OEE, lot/serial genealogy, SPC, IIoT machine integration, scheduling.
- AI Machine Vision — line-side defect detection, 30-60% reduction in escape defects.
- AI Predictive Maintenance — failure alerts 7-14 days early on critical machines.
In the back office
- D365 Finance & SCM — for mid-large factories. Cost roll-up, MRP, multi-entity, multi-currency.
- D365 Business Central — for growing SMEs. Lighter footprint, faster deployment.
- AutoCount Accounting — for SME factories under RM 50M. Strong Malaysian compliance, low TCO.
- e-Invoice Middleware — MyInvois submission with credit-note and self-billed handling.
Most discrete manufacturers in Malaysia start with ARC.LITE on one line + AutoCount in the office, then scale up as the data proves out the value.
How does a discrete-manufacturing engagement actually run?
MES first. ERP integration second. AI third. Inverting that order is the most common reason factory transformations stall.
- 01
Site Walk-Through
One day on your floor. We map your routings, machines, current pain points. You get a fixed-fee proposal — no slideware.
- 02
MES Pilot
One line. ARC.LITE or ARC.OPS depending on scope. Operators on touchscreens. Real-time OEE on the floor display within 4-8 weeks.
- 03
ERP Integration
Wire MES output into D365, BC, or AutoCount. Production reports in finance now reflect the real shop floor — same data, same numbers.
- 04
AI Layer
Once 90 days of clean data is flowing, layer in machine vision or predictive maintenance. AI on stale data is fiction.
What discrete manufacturers actually ship after Daxonet engages.
OEE gain in 6 months
Visible downtime + structured improvement = capacity you didn't know you had.
Audit response time
From days digging through paper to a query in ARC.OPS. MNC supplier scorecards improve within one quarter.
Defect escape reduction
AI Machine Vision on the line catches what human inspectors miss in hour 4 of a shift.
Failure prediction lead
Predictive maintenance turns surprise breakdowns into planned weekend service.
Source of production truth
Finance, operations, and the floor stop arguing about whose number is right.
To start with ARC.LITE
No upfront license. Run paperless work orders on one line, prove the value, then expand.