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What Can I Expect from my Manufacturing Execution System (MES)?
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MES Solutions
What Can I Expect from my Manufacturing Execution System (MES)?
MES Solutions
  • What is MES
  • Why You Need MES
  • Get Started with MES
  • MES Versus ERP
  • MES in the IIoT

MES is the heartbeat of your operation. A properly managed MES helps remove friction between your traditionally siloed business functions. MES links these functions across multiple, plant-wide manufacturing processes through customer orders.


How MES Can Benefit Your Business

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Production Dispatching

Provides the command to send materials or orders to certain parts of the plant to begin a process or step.

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WIP & Resource Tracking

Monitors the progress of units, batches, or lots of output to create a full history of the product.

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Product Tracking & Genealogy

Monitors the progress of units, batches, or lots of output to create a full history of the product.

 

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Document Control

Manages and distributes information on products, processes, designs, or orders, and gathers certification statements of work and conditions.

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Asset Utilization

Compares the time equipment is in use versus the time available, including downtime, idle time and changeover time.

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Resource Management

Guides what people, machines, tools, and materials should do, and tracks what they are currently doing or have just done.

 

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Quality

Compares measured yield in the plant to goals and metrics set by the equipment manufacturer, process engineers, corporation, or customers.

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Maintenance Management

Plans and executes appropriate activities to keep equipment and other capital assets in the plant performing to goal.

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Finite Scheduling

Sequences and times activities for optimized plant performance based on finite capacities of the resources.

 


Accelerating Transformation with Plex

With Plex Systems, we are accelerating the transformation of industrial operations with advanced capabilities in MES, supply chain, and quality with a cloud-based application to drive operational efficiency. So, why cloud?

  • Robust MES/MOM, with extensions to ERP, Supply Chain, and APM
  • Modern, multi-tenant, versionless software at scale
  • Quick to configure and deploy, updated by operators or machines
  • Focus on analysts and business outcomes over programming
  • Software and service price competitive
Manufacturing Control Starts at the Plant Floor
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Manufacturing Control Starts at the Plant Floor

Smart manufacturing begins on the shop floor. Learn how to gain a key competitive advantage by implementing a strong shop-floor control system, also known as a manufacturing execution system (MES)..

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Explore What's Possible with MES

From product tracking and genealogy to maintenance management and document control, see how an MES connects plant-wide manufacturing processes.

What is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)?
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What is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)?

These plant-centric production management systems help improve productivity and aid people with real-time production information.

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Why Does My Operation Need an MES?
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Why Does My Operation Need an MES?

MES systems improve supply chain effectiveness, comply with regulations, reduces waste and achieves excellence in your plant with our one strategy.

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What's the Difference Between MES and ERP?
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What's the Difference Between MES and ERP?

MES vs ERP: Understanding the differences are vital to your company’s end goal to solve and determine the best solution for your factory.

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Get Started with MES
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Get Started with MES

The right MES solution is aligned to your unique business problems. Accelerate your top-line growth by answering these questions first.

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How Does MES Fit Into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)?
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How Does MES Fit Into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)?

As the critical link between production data and ROI, your MES is responsible for digitalization and supporting Industrial IoT in a number of ways.

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Manufacturing Execution Systems
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Software
Manufacturing Execution Systems

FactoryTalk® ProductionCentre® improves operational efficiencies and helps you achieve and demonstrate regulatory compliance and high quality.

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The State of Smart Manufacturing
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The State of Smart Manufacturing

In this latest report, more than 300 manufacturing leaders share urgent challenges facing their business and how they use technology to address their needs. How can today’s trends help you solve tomorrow’s challenges?

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MES for Dummies
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MES for Dummies

Get the scoop on all things MES in this easy-to-understand guide to controlling factory operations, improving production visibility and driving quality with MES.

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