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ricefishtech/industry4.0-mes
开源MES，生产制造管理系统，Manufacturing Execution System
A fork of the Polish open-source QCADOO MES platform, adapted for Chinese manufacturing contexts (machining, food packaging, footwear, apparel). It's a full manufacturing execution system covering production orders, work orders, BOMs, and quality control. Target audience is small-to-mid Chinese manufacturers who need an on-premise MES and can't afford SAP.
The QCADOO base is battle-tested in European manufacturing and has real domain depth — this isn't a toy MES. PostgreSQL backend with a proper schema init script means you can actually inspect and extend the data model. The multi-industry configuration (discrete, food, apparel) shows the plugin architecture works for different shop floor types. 230 forks suggests people are actually deploying and customizing it.
This repo is effectively abandoned — the README tells you to go to a different repo (metaxk-company/free-mes), no support, no demo. Spring 3.2 and Hibernate 3.6 are both past end-of-life by several years; Spring 3.2 hasn't had security patches since 2016. The build process requires manually copying jars into your local Maven repo, which is a red flag for a production system. Documentation is almost entirely in Chinese with no English equivalent, and the few English build instructions are sparse enough that you'll spend days just getting it to compile.