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MES: The Soul of Smart Manufacturing

Published on: 2018-12-10

Enterprises across industries with both needs and capabilities are eager to try, hoping to achieve labor reduction through smart manufacturing, cut costs, respond flexibly to market changes, better meet customer needs, and improve competitiveness. With the introduction of the Internet of Things and related services, manufacturing will in the near future establish a global network in the form of CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems), integrating equipment, warehouses, and production facilities.

The core of the upgraded version of industrial manufacturing lies in connecting information flow through informatization and digitalization, building lower-cost, higher-performance, and more flexible production capacity, and realizing intelligent manufacturing.

To bridge the information gap between the planning layer and the control layer, the control-layer MES emerged as required. MES monitors production information, transmits it upward to the planning layer, controls execution downward, connects enterprise-level production planning systems with shop-floor equipment control systems, fills the gap between upper and lower layers, and opens factory information channels, making it a foundational and necessary condition for realizing the upgraded version of industrial manufacturing.

MES is a production informatization management system oriented toward the execution layer of manufacturing enterprises. It can provide management modules such as manufacturing data management, planning and scheduling management, production dispatch management, inventory management, quality management, human resources management, work and equipment management, tool and fixture management, procurement management, cost management, project kanban management, production process control, lower-level data integration and analysis, and upper-level data integration and decomposition, building a solid, reliable, and practical collaborative manufacturing management platform for enterprises.

End-to-end visualization - reduce production costs by more than 10%

Visualization of raw material inventory management:
Reduce inventory, prevent raw materials from expiring, and save manufacturing costs
Visualization of the production process:
View production progress in real time, prevent production incidents, keep production lines running, and identify employees with frequent errors
Visualization management of finished goods:
Trace finished-product histories. When quality issues occur, the system can quickly identify the cause, reducing cost and time

Execution capability - improve by more than 80%

Strictly follow first in, first out (FIFO)
Prevent errors in inbound and outbound warehouse operations
Prevent production from skipping processes
Production kanban and operation prompts

Customer satisfaction - improve by more than 200%

Show customers how the enterprise ensures quality control
Make the manufacturing progress of customer orders transparent to customers
When quality problems occur, inform customers of the cause at the earliest opportunity

Enterprise labor costs - reduce by more than 30%

Warehouse management staff can be reduced by half
Procurement, finance, statistics, management, and other personnel can all be improved through this system, increasing efficiency and reducing staffing allocation

In recent years, the industrial mindset of Industry 4.0. has swept the globe and will be the direction for the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry. The core of Industry 4.0. lies in connecting information flow through informatization and digitalization, realizing information interaction between upper, middle, and lower layers, and achieving intelligent manufacturing. Industrial software exists in every corner of intelligent manufacturing. MES is the soul of intelligent manufacturing and the intersection running through every link, including production, engineering technology, and manufacturing execution. As an important component of enterprise informatization in manufacturing, MES has very broad application prospects in the era of Industry 4.0.

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