Manufacturing Execution System
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A Manufacturing Execution System is an information system that aids with a manufacturing process.
- AKA: MES.
- Context:
- It can be supported by a Process Control System, ...
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Product Life-Cycle Management, Scheduling (Production Processes), Overall Equipment Effectiveness, Track & Trace, Enterprise Resource Planning, SCADA, Process Control.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_execution_system Retrieved:2015-1-7.
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are computerized systems used in manufacturing. MES can provide the right information at the right time and show the manufacturing decision maker "how the current conditions on the plant floor can be optimized to improve production output." MES work in real time to enable the control of multiple elements of the production process (e.g. inputs, personnel, machines and support services).
MES might operate across multiple function areas, for example: management of product definitions across the product life-cycle,
resource scheduling, order execution and dispatch, production analysis for Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), and materials track and trace.
The idea of MES might be seen as an intermediate step between, on the one hand, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) or process control system on the other; although historically, exact boundaries have fluctuated.
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are computerized systems used in manufacturing. MES can provide the right information at the right time and show the manufacturing decision maker "how the current conditions on the plant floor can be optimized to improve production output." MES work in real time to enable the control of multiple elements of the production process (e.g. inputs, personnel, machines and support services).