Competitive Advantages When Purchasing An MES System

An MES system is designed with the latest technology, to give your company the opportunity to stay ahead of the industry. Currently, MES packages are no longer used to operate as stand-alone systems, but rather to integrate with ERP as well as ANT Software for Industry 4.0 manufacturing solutions.

A good ERP integration occurs when the MES system complements the organization's current ERP software. Both programs integrate seamlessly and help production managers to capture data and make decisions in real-time, with all the critical points associated with the information.

Probably, at this moment you are evaluating the possibility of acquiring an MES system for your company, so, surely, you will be asking yourself some of these questions:

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The MES system

1. Does it offer tools and options that connect with today's new mobile technology?
2. Do you perform SPC inspections on the fly?
3. Do you scan store inventory?
4. Do you support workflows and approve decisions from a smartphone?
5. How is it related to machines?
6. Is it tied into the machine controller, PLC, or directly to the sensors?
7. Is it SCADA based or OPC-based server system?
8. How do you get that information back to the software for analytics and alerts?
9. Can you get visual aids like machine status lights?

As mobile technology continues to permeate the manufacturing environment, the level of cutting-edge technology you achieve when purchasing an MES system should be considered, so before embarking on selecting an MES vendor, it is important to define exactly what are you trying to achieve, considering the MES system's ability to integrate at the machine level. This way, you won't lose information about a function or module that is critical to your success when evaluating packages.

MES software integrates with ERP systems, supply chain management, product lifecycle management, and other key IT systems. However, the benefits of acquiring an MES system translate only into competitive advantages for the industry.

Acquiring an MES system independent of your factory will really solve challenges. However, as a production manager, you now have to convince management that it is worth the investment. Why are many companies rapidly adopting MES software? Because the return on investment happens quickly.

In addition to the previously detailed, we present a list of benefits that will justify the investment of acquiring an MES system, in order to eliminate the possibility of isolation of the factory and its disconnection with its own processes:

1. Greater customer satisfaction.
2. Improvement of regulatory compliance.
3. Better agility and time to market.
4. Improved supply chain visibility.
5. Reduced manufacturing cycle time.
6. Elimination of paperwork and manual data entry processes.
7. Reduced delivery time of the order.
8. Lower labor costs.
9. Reduced WIP inventory.
10. Greater use of the machine.
11. Leading providers of manufacturing execution systems.

Purchasing an MES system can deliver a single, trusted version of the truth and provide full orchestration of resources.

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Samuel Daniel

Update 29 January 2022