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The value of a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and smart manufacturing rests not in the agility of technology but in the business strategies that leverage that technology. To realize ROI, every smart manufacturing project must align to your company’s strategic objectives.

You can use the data provided by MES to optimize operations. Combining information from MES with the data available from other industrial and enterprise sources, you can begin to optimize operations across their entire enterprise.


Supporting IIoT with MES

Here are two crucial ways that an MES can support the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT):

Provide the production context on which everything else operatesThe MES links all gathered data—quality metrics, genealogy, people, inventory, and other manufacturing resources—to a work order, lot, batch, or serial number. This context then forms the basis for a multidimensional matrix for analyzing production.
 
Apply rules to this matrix to guide productionThink of this as a global positioning system (GPS) rerouting a driver based on driving conditions, closed roads, and current traffic. The MES can similarly adjust a process to accommodate current conditions by considering such factors as available inventory, equipment, and people. An MES can then guide an operator or other workers through the necessary steps and tasks in workflows.
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"The intelligent, real-time orchestration and optimization of business, physical and digital processes within factories and across the entire value chain.”

- MESA Smart Manufacturing Working Group

Smart Manufacturing and the Role of MES

Here are a few examples of how an MES can support each of the four pillars of Smart Manufacturing:

Intelligent

  • MES delivers active intelligence versus passive information system
  • Local routine decisions are made by automated systems based on high-level constraints

Orchestration
  • Of business processes and resources across the manufacturing value chain so they are in-sync and data flows smoothly

Optimization
  • Available resource capacity is used to deliver to the customer quickly with the help of MES
  • Adjusting schedules to work around issues for maximum efficiency and effectiveness

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  • People, physical equipment and digital IT processes orchestrated together so they connect value chain form design to supply chain, fabrication, assembly and product services


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This purpose-built, full-stack suite empowers your domain experts to rapidly develop and deploy digital solutions to your most pressing challenges at any scale from asset to enterprise. Our MES solutions will establish a strong foundation for the success of your digital transformation.

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