Factory Management System "MENTENA" Now Offers Company-Specific Holiday Calendar Setting Function to Prevent Planning Errors Through Systematization
Yachiyo Solutions' factory management system "MENTENA" will begin offering a new feature on May 11, 2026, that allows flexible operation tailored to a company's unique working days. This aims to prevent planning errors in equipment inspection and maintenance, contributing to productivity improvement amidst severe labor shortages in manufacturing.
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Yachiyo Solutions Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Taito-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Takashi Mizuno; hereinafter "Yachiyo Solutions") will begin offering a new feature for its factory management system "MENTENA" from May 11, 2026, enabling flexible operation tailored to a company's unique working days.
Details of the New Feature
In manufacturing sites facing severe labor shortages, the quality of planning for equipment inspection and maintenance work is a critical factor influencing stable production.
However, many equipment management tools uniformly treat "Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays" as days off, often failing to accurately reflect a company's unique non-working days. It is not uncommon for some sites to operate on weekends and have unique holidays set on weekdays. When inspection work is assigned without considering these unique holidays, it's more than just an information mismatch. Each time a person in charge realizes that "work is assigned on a day that should be a holiday," they are forced to manually correct the schedule. In sites with a large number of equipment and inspection items, such correction work not only incurs significant man-hours but also carries the constant risk of overlooked work leading to missed plans.
Furthermore, in sites that continue to operate on public holidays, unnecessary holiday information can impair visibility, creating a risk that important maintenance schedules that should be closely monitored get buried. The man-hours spent on correcting such plans and work omissions due to misinterpretation of schedules contribute to a decrease in factory productivity.
This update provides a function to accurately reflect a company's actual working days in MENTENA, preventing scheduling errors where work is mistakenly assigned to non-working days.
In addition, a setting that allows skipping non-working days for schedules automatically created with recurring settings will also be provided. For high-frequency tasks such as daily or weekly routine inspections, this eliminates the hassle of accumulating "unperformed" tasks after holidays and reduces the risk of important tasks that should be performed on holidays being overlooked due to being buried under unnecessary tasks. By accurately grasping the operational cycle of the site, human errors in plan formulation are fundamentally eliminated, creating an environment where maintenance personnel can concentrate on their core specialized tasks.
Image of Holiday Setting Screen
Image of Schedule Screen
About Future Updates
As a future update, we plan to add an "Event Schedule" function to the scheduling feature. This function will allow important non-work related events, such as factory closing days, audit days, and equipment delivery days, to be displayed on a Gantt chart separately from work tasks. This will help reduce planning errors and oversight by allowing users to adjust work schedules while checking deadlines and constraints on the same screen. We are also currently considering developing a function that issues pre-alerts when irregular operating patterns overlap with recurring work schedules. We will continue to support operations that align with the actual conditions of the site, including responding to tasks that cannot be postponed, such as statutory inspections.
"This revision is a feature addition to reduce the effort of schedule adjustment, but what we particularly focused on was 'making the new system sustainable without undue effort.' When a system is introduced, fine adjustments are inevitably required due to differences from previous work methods. If on-site personnel and managers have to handle these adjustments every time, a system that should be convenient can instead feel like a burden.
With this improvement, we aimed to reduce such invisible burdens as much as possible and bring the system closer to a state where it can be used naturally in daily operations.
MENTENA will continue to listen to customer feedback and provide truly valuable products." (Shuhei Yamaguchi, COO (Chief Operating Officer))
What is the Factory Management System "MENTENA"?
URL: https://mentena.biz/
MENTENA is a factory management system that minimizes sudden equipment stoppages in manufacturing. It centralizes equipment management operations such as inspection, maintenance, and repair, and by breaking away from person-dependent work processes using paper and Excel, it achieves on-site operational efficiency and reliable history management. With a simple design that anyone can use intuitively, and a support system that assists from introduction to establishment, it realizes "easy," "easy to start," and "reliable support," supporting stable factory operation. This service is utilized in factory management and equipment management operations in various sites, including manufacturing, building maintenance, and the gas and power industries. While minimizing the burden on the site, it establishes preventive maintenance, prevents losses due to sudden stoppages and equipment aging, and accumulates equipment management data in a form that can be used for management decisions, thereby ensuring site stability.
Details of the New Feature
In manufacturing sites facing severe labor shortages, the quality of planning for equipment inspection and maintenance work is a critical factor influencing stable production.
However, many equipment management tools uniformly treat "Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays" as days off, often failing to accurately reflect a company's unique non-working days. It is not uncommon for some sites to operate on weekends and have unique holidays set on weekdays. When inspection work is assigned without considering these unique holidays, it's more than just an information mismatch. Each time a person in charge realizes that "work is assigned on a day that should be a holiday," they are forced to manually correct the schedule. In sites with a large number of equipment and inspection items, such correction work not only incurs significant man-hours but also carries the constant risk of overlooked work leading to missed plans.
Furthermore, in sites that continue to operate on public holidays, unnecessary holiday information can impair visibility, creating a risk that important maintenance schedules that should be closely monitored get buried. The man-hours spent on correcting such plans and work omissions due to misinterpretation of schedules contribute to a decrease in factory productivity.
This update provides a function to accurately reflect a company's actual working days in MENTENA, preventing scheduling errors where work is mistakenly assigned to non-working days.
In addition, a setting that allows skipping non-working days for schedules automatically created with recurring settings will also be provided. For high-frequency tasks such as daily or weekly routine inspections, this eliminates the hassle of accumulating "unperformed" tasks after holidays and reduces the risk of important tasks that should be performed on holidays being overlooked due to being buried under unnecessary tasks. By accurately grasping the operational cycle of the site, human errors in plan formulation are fundamentally eliminated, creating an environment where maintenance personnel can concentrate on their core specialized tasks.
Image of Holiday Setting Screen
Image of Schedule Screen
About Future Updates
As a future update, we plan to add an "Event Schedule" function to the scheduling feature. This function will allow important non-work related events, such as factory closing days, audit days, and equipment delivery days, to be displayed on a Gantt chart separately from work tasks. This will help reduce planning errors and oversight by allowing users to adjust work schedules while checking deadlines and constraints on the same screen. We are also currently considering developing a function that issues pre-alerts when irregular operating patterns overlap with recurring work schedules. We will continue to support operations that align with the actual conditions of the site, including responding to tasks that cannot be postponed, such as statutory inspections.
"This revision is a feature addition to reduce the effort of schedule adjustment, but what we particularly focused on was 'making the new system sustainable without undue effort.' When a system is introduced, fine adjustments are inevitably required due to differences from previous work methods. If on-site personnel and managers have to handle these adjustments every time, a system that should be convenient can instead feel like a burden.
With this improvement, we aimed to reduce such invisible burdens as much as possible and bring the system closer to a state where it can be used naturally in daily operations.
MENTENA will continue to listen to customer feedback and provide truly valuable products." (Shuhei Yamaguchi, COO (Chief Operating Officer))
What is the Factory Management System "MENTENA"?
URL: https://mentena.biz/
MENTENA is a factory management system that minimizes sudden equipment stoppages in manufacturing. It centralizes equipment management operations such as inspection, maintenance, and repair, and by breaking away from person-dependent work processes using paper and Excel, it achieves on-site operational efficiency and reliable history management. With a simple design that anyone can use intuitively, and a support system that assists from introduction to establishment, it realizes "easy," "easy to start," and "reliable support," supporting stable factory operation. This service is utilized in factory management and equipment management operations in various sites, including manufacturing, building maintenance, and the gas and power industries. While minimizing the burden on the site, it establishes preventive maintenance, prevents losses due to sudden stoppages and equipment aging, and accumulates equipment management data in a form that can be used for management decisions, thereby ensuring site stability.