Manufacturing Execution System (MES) the future of Manufacturing

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is a software solution ensuring quality and efficiency are built into the manufacturing process and are proactively and analytically applied. MES connects multiple plants, sites, and vendors’ live product information and integrates easily with equipment, controllers, and enterprise business applications. The result of this is complete visibility, control, and manufacturing optimization of products and processes across the enterprise.

The manufacturing Execution System (MES) is also the future of marketing as it simplifies a lot of work, saves time, and helps cut costs. It also helps in carbon footprint by eradicating paper, notes, and files.

Achieving goals through MES implementation:

• Monitoring and coordinating manufacturing activities across globally distributed plants and linking them in real-time to the enterprise for ideal performance is what is done by Manufacturing Execution System (MES).

• Manufacturing Execution System (MES) helps delete human error in Manufacturing as it provides real-time quality data check, yield monitoring, automatic enforcement of specifications and business rules, and as-manufactured lot, batch, device, or unit traceability- all resulting in improved product and process quality, and higher productivity.

• Manufacturing Execution System (MES) also provides the flexibility to model and change complex processes and apply them immediately.

• Manufacturing Execution System (MES) tracks product details and order details on the plant floor, collects transactions for reporting to the financial and planning system, and electronically dispatches orders and manufacturing instructions to shop floor personnel.

• Manufacturing Execution System (MES) contributes to paperless Manufacturing, which helps reduce scrap and eliminates paperwork errors and unnecessary checks.

• The manufacturing Execution System (MES) also provides real-time feedback needed for quick identification and resolving problems for incessant product and process improvement and optimization of the manufacturing process.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for all industries:

A robust MES model supports a broad diversity of manufacturing industries and processes. MES supports all simple to complex process workflows, high volume automated data collection, make-to-order, discrete assembly, batch process, rolled products, and more.

MES is being used across industries and is seen in discrete, batch, and continuous process manufacturing industries, including semiconductor, electronics, medical device, automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical, metals, plastic, and more. MES can be configured adapting to users’ business without custom code, having an open SOA architecture designed to integrate enterprise applications and shop floor automation. MES sure is the future of manufacturing. 

Benefits of Manufacturing Execution System (MES):

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) provides numerous long and short-term benefits, including more rapid time to volume, improved yields, lower operating costs, increased compliance.

Some additional benefits are:

• Eradicate non-value-add activity

• Perceptively and methodically standardized and imposed processes across all sites.

• Get real-time visibility and access across the manufacturing supply chain.

• Fast-track trace analysis, the root cause of diagnoses, and issue resolution.

• Lower cost of good quality.

• Constantly improve product quality and new designs.

• Make fact-based operational and strategic new designs.

• Complete control over your manufacturing process.

There are various other major benefits of MES too:

• Replace the spreadsheets and paper notes:

Using MES helps record various costs like labor, scrap, downtime, and maintenance in real-time becomes easy, and thus the need for journals or paper notes is eliminated. Eradication of paper notes also means that management can use this data to evaluate unprofitable business models and forecast future pricing. MES also enables an increase in productivity in production facilities.

• ERP system integration:

MES has another great quality of integrating with surrounding systems. This eliminates the need for standalone systems, mindless data re-entries, and also provides better information on order delivery dates, and improves decision making.

• Reduce scrap, waste, and overages:

MES allows a thorough analysis of production lines and finished products, and thus, it becomes easy to detect inconsistencies on the shop floor and immediately halt them to limit the number of bad parts and wasted materials.

• Decrease downtime:

MES helps create realistic schedules and track raw materials and part inventories. This eliminates time bring wasted from re-configuring schedules when parts are in transit. Then employee scheduling and effective use of resources become possible.

• Reduce costs:

Streamlining operations after better handling product, time, and labor required to complete the job is possible. This enables you to cut back on ordering and free up personnel from operating the production line and controlling inventory.

• Reduce inventory:

Storing and keeping track of access goods, transporting warehousing, and monitoring of extra inventory. MES constantly updates inventory records with new production, materials, and product. Meaning the shipping, purchasing, and scheduling departments know availability on hand at each facility and what needs to be ordered.

 

These are various benefits of the Manufacturing Execution System. It is a cloud-based solution, and thus Microsoft Azure cloud services can be used to deploy this solution.

atQor is one of the top Custom Manufacturing Software Development companies providing cloud-based solutions and services. We have cloud experts that have gained expertise in various aspects of cloud and customization.

We provide such Microsoft Cloud Computing Solutions regarding the digitalization of manufacturing operations. We aim to take the manufacturing process on-premises and ease the workload as cloud deployment makes the digitization of the manufacturing process easy to adapt and simple to use. It also benefits the organizations as it is integrated with AI, Machine Learning, and Robotic Automation processes. These technologies facilitate the phenomena of automation and quick identification of any errors that happen to occur in between the process.