mcframe 7 and mcframe IoT (SIGNAL CHAIN, RAKU-PAD)

Business Engineering Corporation (B-EN-G) is a Japanese software company that created mcframe, a manufacturing software family now in its 30th year. It serves Japanese manufacturers at home and abroad, has subsidiaries in Thailand and Indonesia, and publishes case interviews from client factories in Vietnam and other countries.

mcframe 7 covers sales, production and cost management, with a LiteMES module and overseas packages (mcframe CS, and mcframe GA as cloud SaaS for subsidiaries). The mcframe IoT series adds shop-floor tools: SIGNAL CHAIN integrates control and execution data from the floor, RAKU-PAD digitises inspections and daily reports on tablets from existing Excel layouts, and MOTION modules support VR-based training and motion-tracking of work. A PLM line (Visual BOM, EM-Bridge) links engineering data.

• mcframe 7: production, sales and cost management for manufacturers, expandable by stage.
• LiteMES: lightweight execution functions linked to mcframe production data.
• SIGNAL CHAIN: integrates on-site control and execution information.
• RAKU-PAD: digitises inspections and daily reports on tablets from Excel layouts.
• MOTION VR-learning and Human-tracking: VR work training and motion analysis of operations.
• mcframe GA and CS: cloud SaaS and staged packages for overseas subsidiaries.

A Japanese-invested component plant in Vietnam can run production and cost management on mcframe while sharing data with its parent. Quality staff can replace paper inspection sheets with RAKU-PAD tablet forms. A training team can use VR modules to teach new operators standard work.

One vendor covers planning, costing, shop-floor data and engineering BOMs, so Japanese parent companies and their ASEAN plants can share master data and results. Tablet forms built from existing Excel sheets let operators go paperless with little retraining. Stage-by-stage expansion and a cloud package for overseas subsidiaries help smaller overseas sites start without a large IT team.

Japanese manufacturers keep adding capacity in Vietnam and Thailand and want their overseas plants on the same production and cost data as head office. Combining planning software with tablet-based shop-floor recording and IoT data is a common route for these mid-sized overseas plants.

mcframe is developed by Business Engineering Corporation (B-EN-G), Japan, and marks its 30th anniversary. B-EN-G has local subsidiaries in Thailand and Indonesia and held B-EN-G (TH) DAY 2025 in Bangkok on 17 October 2025. Its overseas site also covers GLASIAOUS, a multilingual cloud accounting ERP. An AI platform, mcframe Alchemist, is planned for 2027.