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The Lake MES Platform · One live job record

Follow one job from quote to invoice

Seven stages. At each one, this page shows what happens when the floor and the record are separate, and what changes when they share one record. One live job record is the destination the platform is building toward, and each stage says what is there today and what is still to come. Shop-Trak, Doc-Trak and Fact-Trak already work on your SyteLine data today. The next direct product-to-product integration, Shop-Trak and Machine-Trak, is expected by the end of 2026, with more through 2027.

Stage 1 of 7 · Estimating

The job is priced against real standards rather than last year's assumptions

Products in play: Fact-Trak

When the floor and the record are separate

  • Standards are folklore, averaged across machines that run the same part at different speeds
  • Setup is buried inside run, so the quote cannot separate them
  • The last overrun taught nobody anything, because its cause was never isolated

When they share one record

  • Part duration variability is visible across machines and runs, so the standard reflects reality
  • Setup and run are separate numbers because they were captured separately
  • Overruns on past jobs are traced to labor, machine and quality drivers, and quoting learns

The quote is now the first entry on the job record rather than a document in a folder.

The Five Moments

What only the whole record can do

Each of these needs at least two products sharing one job record, which is what separates a platform from a set of separate tools. Each one carries its status.

Cost on the open job

Planned

Labor cost is on the job today where you use direct job costing. Machine and quality cost join it as the products come together: the machine link is expected by the end of 2026, and cost of quality on the job follows.

Why it needs the platform: It needs labor capture, machine capture and one cost model on the same job. Any two of the three give a partial answer that a controller will not sign.

Scrap becomes a quality case by itself

In development

A scrap entry at the station opens the Quality-Trak record, with the job, the operator and the documents already attached. In development.

Why it needs the platform: It needs the floor transaction and the quality engine to share a record. A separate quality system cannot see the event that should have triggered it.

The machine files its own paperwork

Planned 2027

A machine condition opens the work order, routes the technician and writes the cost back. Planned 2027.

Why it needs the platform: It needs machine state, a work order and a cost model in the same place. Maintenance management is the one classic function the platform does not perform today.

Certification gates the clock-in

Available now

Only a qualified operator starts the operation, through the work center skills check. Available now with Shop-Trak.

Why it needs the platform: It needs the labor transaction and the qualification record to be the same system. A spreadsheet cannot stop a transaction.

Performance reviews written by the floor

Planned

Attainment, quality and skills from the record, not from memory. Planned.

Why it needs the platform: It needs a year of attributed labor and quality data, which only exists if capture was correct from the beginning.