Manufacturing Execution Systems for Factory-Floor Digitisation
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Manufacturing Execution System(MES); work-in-process i.e. work in progress (WIP); Equipment tracking; traceability; Industry 4.0; ISA-95; OEE; Quality management.Abstract
Manufacturing units are increasingly depending on systems which are trustworthy, delivers product timely with better quality with better quality checks and cost cutting. Automation can only improve if the process are repeatable but generally a individual operator couldn’t maintain the customer work order, material batch number, inward inspection record and production line operation.
A MES (Manufacturing Execution System) make a bridge by connecting the production planning and production line execution. This review lights the importance of MES in factory floor digitization, WIP tracking, equipment monitoring, traceability, quality checks and industry 4.0 integration.
The review data is based on the reference literature and standards, including MES functional models, ISA-95 and SEMI E10. It simply binds the functions, benefits, limitations and implementation relevant to small as well as medium sized organizations.
A stainless steel water bottle production is used as recurring example to explain how the theory can be translated into practical examples. The review concludes that MES value depends not only software installing, but it is a integration with traditional working methods. Future opportunities like edge processing, cloud development, data quality and cyber security are also addressed
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