Whatis it, how does it work and how does it fit into Industry 4.0?
Initially, the MES was used only by very few large companies, while today it is a computerized system used by manufacturing, as an essential tool to transform raw materials into finished products
The MES is a crucial software to track and document the entire production process in detail.
The Manufacturing Execution System, better known as MES, manages an enormous amount of data in real time, collecting it from the most complex machinery, constantly monitoring the production process and guaranteeing total efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the plant.
The MES provides important information that helps make more accurate decisions about how production output can be optimized and improved. The MES acting in real time provides the possibility of simultaneously controlling multiple elements, such as people, machines, devices and inputs.
The Manufacturing Execution System operates through the synergy of several functional areas such as the management of the entire product life cycle, order scheduling, real-time analysis and product quality management, calculating a fundamental parameter that allows us to understand the effectiveness in the production process: Overall Equipment effectiveness (OEE).
The OEE represents the value that measures the efficiency of all manufacturing operations within the factory.
The MES called OPERA, owned by the Open Data IT company, is a MES software that has the ability to integrate perfectly with different factory systems such as ERP, PLC and SCADA and be connected with all the sensors, devices, machinery, available within the factory.
Therefore, the Manufacturing Execution System WORKS is crucial to coordinate different heterogeneous data flows related to the product life cycle, acting positively on the entire supply chain by providing key information about the efficiency of individual machines and on quality control.
A Manufacturing Execution System as a WORK, designed and developed with the latest technologies in the software field, enhanced with the use of AI tools, is able to predict anomalies, machine malfunctions, intervening promptly and solving problems that otherwise could have negatively impacted company performance.
The MES is in other words the “keystone” for achieving Smart Factory 4.0.
Because not only is MES software an essential tool for plant managers, managers and production control personnel, but it is also essential for the administration and managers who have to make the best decisions every day, faster and faster.
At this point, if you have understood the potential of a MES, as MES WORKS, you will surely have understood how essential this computer system is for new generation factories and companies that want to approach this technological transformation, and finally, how important this tool is to mention when talking about Industry 4.0, Smart or Digital Factory.