Finance's "asset view" and the shop floor's "equipment view" used to be two separate worlds. SBK merges them — asset records, depreciation, repair costs and utilization on one screen — so "which machine is most valuable," "which has the highest ROI," and "which should be retired" are clear at a glance.
Unified full-lifecycle management from acquisition to disposal
Equipment records in fixed assets merge with the MES equipment list — asset number = equipment number.
Finance sees monthly depreciation cost, the shop floor sees OEE utilization — two datasets shown side by side for the same machine.
Spare-parts + labor costs from MES repair work orders auto-aggregate into the fixed-asset repair-cost ledger.
Asset value × depreciation vs. actual output × profit — each machine's ROI is clear at a glance.
During the annual finance stocktake, sync MES equipment location / status / owner directly — no need to walk the floor again.
High failure rate / repair cost exceeding 30% of original value / persistently low utilization triggers a disposal-assessment workflow.
In the past, finance's asset card held only "acquisition date / original value / depreciation / residual value," while the shop floor's equipment ledger held only "model / manufacturer / owner / maintenance cycle." Once merged, one equipment record holds all the information — finance, production and maintenance in a single view.
Parts+labor+outsourcing auto-posted to asset card
Without integration, repair costs are a muddle: spare-parts requisitions go through the warehouse, labor hours are logged against the technician, and outsourced-repair fees sit in procurement — three sets of books each covering a piece. Once integrated, closing an MES repair work order auto-aggregates "spare parts + labor + outsourcing = total repair cost" to the fixed-asset card.
Utilization last 6 periods (%) · below 70%
An 8-year-old CNC has a book residual value of 50,000, but a 15% failure rate, 60% average utilization and 12,000 in monthly repair costs. The system's ROI algorithm makes a recommendation: when the repair-cost rate exceeds 40% of a new machine's depreciation and utilization stays below 70% for 6 consecutive months — recommend entering the "disposal assessment" workflow.
20 injection machines are ranked by ROI, with the worst 5 entering improvement/retirement assessment.
Finance syncs MES data directly to complete the stocktake, saving 2 weeks.
An overhaul at 300,000 vs. a new purchase at 800,000 — decide based on ROI + historical failure rate.
Smart-manufacturing-upgrade applications need equipment data + return-on-investment data, exported in one click.
Below are the MES modules and fixed-asset products closely related to this synergy
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