The Components of MES Value
MES can impact every part of your business, glean return and drive efficiency from each area of your operation. When considering where to get the value that MES brings it’s really about identifying and filling the gaps and voids between operations and your ERP system. The ERP directs macro-scheduling and a wide variety of activities on the plant floor such as asset usage, production balancing, crew / operator planning, etc. By using MES as the integration path to tie the ERP to the process control layer you expose information and status of the individual asset in the plant. By using MES as the bridge to Process Control integration it allows insight to understand how well you’re running (Performance), what it is that you’re running (Operations) and visibility into how much you have made that is sellable (Quality). These are valuable insights and warrant a little deeper understanding.
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