Plant Floor Visibility
Industrial manufacturers face many challenges related to the execution of their manufacturing operations: typically logistical optimisation, cost cutting, and strengthening the position in the supply chain. Moreover, manufacturers must control the quality of their products and processes, and, sometimes provide evidence of these controls, as required by government regulations.
To handle these challenges in the manufacturing environment, specific IT systems are required: close to execution of the operations, able to handle near real-time information, and able to work with information from and to many other IT systems and installations.
Manufacturing execution systems (MES) are built to do exactly this, with functionality to support shop floor operation and integration facilities for the connection to planning systems and the actual machine controls on the shop floor.
Well considered integration of MES in the organisation’s IT landscape offers Plant Floor Visibility: top-down and near real-time insight in status and performance of the operation.
