SyteLine is your system of record. The Lake MES Platform is your system of execution.
The shop-floor platform for SyteLine manufacturers. It covers labor, documents, machines, quality and analytics on the SyteLine database, sold as one platform that grows as you switch capability on. Vantage is expected early 2027.
Which describes you?
You already own the first piece of the platform. At your renewal, you move to the tier that fits what you own. Current Lake customers receive loyalty pricing on the platform, and the other products in your tier come with starter quantities.
See what your tier includesYour SyteLine record is solid, but the floor runs on paper, spreadsheets and point tools that don't know the job number. Start with the problem that costs you the most, or see how what you run today would move over.
Find your problemHow it movesWith SyteLine, your business system and your floor system come from the same partner, from day one.
See the comparisonFour questions we hear on almost every shop floor
None of them has a one-product answer. Each answer lives in three places, and the platform is building toward one record that holds all three.
“We quoted 30% margin and delivered 28. Where did the two points go?”
The answer spans labor at the station, machine time and the job cost in SyteLine. Labor and job cost are on the job today. Machine time joins them with the Shop-Trak and Machine-Trak link, expected by the end of 2026.
“How much are our machines actually running, and what does it cost us when they're not?”
The answer spans machine utilization, the labor booked against it and the cost of both. Machine-Trak measures utilization today, and eScore puts a cost on machine time by asset.
“Will this order ship on time, and if not, what has to move?”
The answer spans the queue on the floor, the inspection holding it and the schedule. Today that's three sources. Vantage, expected early 2027, will bring them into one view.
“Can we prove these parts were good? Certs live on a whiteboard, audits take two weeks.”
The answer spans the inspection on the job, the certificate on the lot and the work instruction the operator saw. Quality-Trak and Doc-Trak keep all three on SyteLine records today.
Most floors are assembled one gap at a time
Here's what that looks like, and what changes on one platform.
| A floor built from point tools | On the Lake MES Platform | |
|---|---|---|
| Labor | A time-capture tool with its own database, synced to SyteLine on a schedule. Job cost catches up on Friday. | Shop-Trak posts straight into SyteLine Clock-ins, quantities and scrap land on the job as the work happens. Job cost is right while the job is open. |
| Documents | Drawings on a shared drive, instructions in a binder, labels from a third tool. Which revision is on the bench is anyone's guess. | Doc-Trak: the right document finds the work Certificates, labels, packing slips and work instructions produced from SyteLine and delivered where the work is. |
| Machines | A monitoring system on its own screen, with its own login, that doesn't know the job number. | Machine-Trak: every machine finally talking Any asset reports when it's running, idle or down. Start with overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and utilization, then add the downtime reasons behind them. The job link to Shop-Trak is expected by the end of 2026. |
| Quality | Nonconformance reports (NCRs) sit in a spreadsheet or an aging database beside the ERP. The defect is found at the dock. | Quality-Trak: catch it at the operation, not the dock Nonconformance, corrective action and engineering change inside SyteLine, on the job. |
| Cost | Labor, machine and quality cost reconciled after month-end, by hand. | Fact-Trak: answers before month-end Actuals against standard by job and work center, from your SyteLine data, while there's still time to act. Part of the Pro tier. |
| Visibility | Five logins and a status meeting to find out what happened overnight. | Vantage: Your Command Center The information your people need, brought to them in context. Vantage is expected early 2027. |
Buy one-off tools and you become your own systems integrator. The platform gives you what you would otherwise have to build.
With point tools, you build every connection between them, retest it after each SyteLine upgrade and keep it working. On the platform, we maintain those connections.
One platform, four layers
Read it from the bottom up. Most shop-floor software starts at the dashboard and reaches down for data it doesn't own. The Lake MES Platform starts where the data is made, on the SyteLine database, and builds up from there.
Experience
Expected Early 2027Vantage, Your Command Center, brings the layers below to your people in context: open a job, a purchase order or a customer order, and what's related to it is already there.
Intelligence
In developmentAI across the platform flags jobs at risk of going late and cost drifting from standard. A person decides.
Workflow
In DevelopmentWorkflows across products act on the data. Certification already gates the clock-in through Shop-Trak. Scrap at the station raising a quality case is in development, and a machine condition opening a work order is planned for 2027.
Data foundation
Available NowLabor, documents, machines, quality and cost, captured on the SyteLine database by Shop-Trak, Doc-Trak, Machine-Trak, Quality-Trak and Fact-Trak.
1. Scrap becomes a case, by itself
In developmentA scrap entry at the operation raises the disposition, with the job, the operator, the machine state and the documents already attached. Nobody has to open a second system and retype the context. In development.
2. Machines open their own tickets
PlannedThe machine will detect the condition and Quality-Trak will run the response workflow, so nobody has to carry the problem from one system to the other. Planned.
3. Quality forms, document enabled
Planned 2027Inspection records, certificates and change documents will file themselves against the job record, which is where an auditor looks. This needs Doc-Trak and Quality-Trak working together and is planned for 2027.
4. Cost of quality meets job cost
PlannedQuality cost will join labor and machine cost on the same job. No single product can produce that number. Quality cost on the job is planned for 2027, after the machine link.
Click any component to open its page. The lower half of each card shows what the product captures and what the workflow layer will do with it.
Each product adds one thing to the floor, and they're all part of one purchase
Shop-Trak
Shop-Trak records labor, quantities and scrap at the operation and posts them into SyteLine as the work happens. Visual Dispatch shows the queue at the terminal, and Shop-Trak Mobile runs in a browser.
Contributes: labor and execution.
Doc-Trak
Doc-Trak produces packing slips, certificates, labels and work instructions from SyteLine and delivers them where they're needed. It works with the document repositories you already have.
Contributes: the documents and instructions.
Machine-Trak
Machine-Trak connects any asset, whether CNC, PLC-based or legacy. Start with OEE and utilization, then drill into the downtime reasons. Connections may require a setup fee.
Contributes: machine state and time.
Quality-Trak
Quality-Trak runs nonconformance, corrective action, engineering change, audits and inspections at the operation, inside SyteLine. It's sold as part of the platform and runs on SyteLine 9 and later.
Contributes: quality and change.
Fact-Trak
Fact-Trak runs analytics and planning on your SyteLine data, including actuals against standard by job and work center. Full Fact-Trak is part of the Pro tier.
Contributes: cost and plan.
Vantage
Open a job, a purchase order or a customer order, and what's related to it is already there, including quality KPIs. Vantage is included in every tier. Vantage on the web works with SyteLine 9.01 and later.
Contributes: no new data. It brings the rest together.
Shop-Trak, Doc-Trak and Fact-Trak work on your SyteLine data today, and Quality-Trak runs inside SyteLine. Doc-Trak and Shop-Trak already share the job. The Shop-Trak and Machine-Trak job link is expected by the end of 2026, and we connect the products further with every release.
Start where it hurts. Grow by switching it on.
Your tier includes a license for each of its products, with starter quantities included, so each stage can start as a pilot before you commit to more. Your biggest problem decides where you start.
Fix the first pain point
Available NowStart with what hurts most: labor, documents, machines or quality. Every product in your tier is yours from day one.
Switch on the next
Available NowThe starter quantity of the next product in your tier is already included. Try it on one cell, then add capacity when the evidence is in.
Toward one job record
Integrating Release by ReleaseLabor, documents, machines and quality come together on the same job. Doc-Trak and Shop-Trak share it today. The machine link is expected by the end of 2026, and quality workflows are planned for 2027.
The whole job in one view
Expected Early 2027Vantage will bring each job, purchase order and customer order into one view, with quality KPIs, so you can review the floor without a status meeting.
Nobody opens five products. Everybody works from the same job.
Machine operator
One terminal: the right instruction, quantities and scrap recorded against the job.
Assembler
Guided assembly with the current spec at the station, step by step.
Shift supervisor
The job and its orders in context, without going looking.
Planner and scheduler
Plan against labor actuals recorded at the operation.
Engineer and document control
Set the Doc-Trak rules that decide which version reaches the floor.
Purchasing and accounts payable
Match and pay with the PO, receiver and invoice together.
Quality lead
Dispositions, corrective action (CAPA), audits and inspections inside the ERP.
Maintenance tech
Every machine reports itself: uptime, faults turned into action.
Controller and finance
Margin by job, with labor cost today. Machine cost is expected at the end of 2026 and quality cost in 2027.
Plant manager and executive
What's related to a job or an order, brought to them in context.
Vantage is expected early 2027. Until then, each role works in its product window alongside SyteLine, on the same SyteLine data. What each role gets, in detail
What the job record makes possible, with the status of each
The machine files its own paperwork
PlannedA machine condition will open the work order, route the technician and write the cost back.
Certification gates the clock-in
Available Now with Shop-TrakOnly a qualified operator starts the operation, through the work center skills check.
Scrap opens a quality case
In DevelopmentScrap recorded at the station will open the quality record automatically.
Cost on the open job
PlannedLabor today where you use direct job costing. Machine cost is expected at the end of 2026 and quality cost in 2027.
Performance reviews written by the floor
PlannedReviews will draw attainment, quality and skills from the record.
The floor reviewed without a meeting
Expected Early 2027With Vantage, the job and its orders will be in view before the shift starts.
You buy the platform once. You grow it by switching on.
One platform, one subscription, one renewal
Your tier includes a license for each of its products, with starter quantities, and you install what you need. One agreement covers all of it.
Capacity scales, capability activates
Add devices, users, seats or machines as you grow. Switching a product on is a short project with your team: we install and configure it and train your administrator. Each product has a short activation guide. Machine-Trak connections may require a setup fee.
Care after go-live, included
Check-ins and activation help are part of your subscription. We'd like to spend that time solving a real problem on your floor.
Four tiers
Entry, Essential and Pro, plus Custom, priced for your operation. Pro adds full Fact-Trak. Vantage is included in every tier.
Your price comes from your account team
They size the platform with you and confirm the numbers in a written quote. We don't publish prices.
Where it runs
Every Lake customer can move to the platform. The fully integrated platform runs on current SyteLine versions. Moving to Infor's multi-tenant cloud? The Lake MES Platform moves with you. Your account team will confirm what your version supports.
The floor records its own work, and SyteLine stays the system of record.
You move at your renewal, with loyalty pricing
Current Lake customers receive loyalty pricing on the platform. Everything you own carries onto the platform, and the other products in your tier come with starter quantities. Each customer moves at its renewal, starting January 1, 2027. Want to move sooner? You can, any time before your renewal. Your account team will set it up.
One partner for the ERP and the floor
Built for SyteLine, by The Lake Companies
Built and supported by the team that has implemented SyteLine for four decades. Each SyteLine release is tested by Lake, then the platform release follows.
The data layer, at the source
Other tools reach the floor's data from outside, through ERP feeds. The platform creates that data on the SyteLine database, from the station to the machine.
One partner for the ERP and the floor
650+ manufacturers run Lake software today. Since 1983, The Lake Companies has served more than 1,000 manufacturers, focused on the Midwest. Support through one portal, every inquiry.
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Public customer storyless time spent collecting shop-floor data
Publishedper week no longer spent reconciling reports
Publishedon-time delivery is the industry baseline for manual scheduling
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See what the Lake MES Platform does on your floor
We'd like to start with a real problem on your floor. Talk to your account team, or a platform expert: (920) 406-3030.