What does a manufacturing execution system mean? Which vendors provide it? A manufacturing execution system is the coordination between manufacturing planning and the organizational mode of factory workshops. If we compare manufacturing to the nervous system, thenmanufacturing planningcan be regarded as the brain, whilethe manufacturing execution systemcan be regarded as the nerves.

  What does a manufacturing execution system mean:

  A manufacturing execution system (manufacturing execution system, abbreviated as MES) was proposed by AMR (Advanced Manufacturing Research, Inc.) in the United States in the early 1990s. It is intended to strengthen the execution of MRP plans by linking MRP plans with shop-floor control through the execution system. The shop-floor control here includes PLC controllers, data collectors, barcodes, various measuring and testing instruments, manipulators, and so on. MES systems establish the necessary interfaces and cooperative relationships with vendors that provide production site control facilities.

  4. Collecting statistical data for production performance analysis.

  Which vendors provide manufacturing execution systems:

  1. Vendors that learn from the successful experience of foreign automation manufacturers and rely on the development of domestic monopoly industries to build their own advantageous products, such as Petro-CyberWorks and Shanghai Baosight, mainly serving process-oriented industries such as petrochemicals, tobacco, semiconductors, solar energy, and high-tech manufacturing.

  2. Taiwan-funded software companies closely connected with the mainland market, such as BenQ Guru, Zhongguan Consulting, Taiwan Yuguan, and others, mainly serving discrete industries such as electronics and automobiles.

  3. Domestic software enterprises that have developed in combination with local enterprises, such as Dalian Huatie Haixing and HollySys, which have strong local advantages and are very suitable for local manufacturing enterprises.

  4. Domestic software companies that have successfully developed based on backgrounds in automobiles, nuclear energy, and machinery, such as Yuangong International and Yunxuntong.

  In summary, when managing all company resources according to business objectives, manufacturing execution systems provide the company with the means to execute those objectives, connect the theoretical data of basic information systems with the actual data of the factory through real-time databases, and provide communication functions between business planning systems and manufacturing control systems.