What Is A MES System?

In addition to the above advantage, MES system is designed in such a way, it will change and easily adapt to fluctuating customer demands with continuous improvement efforts.

A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is an integrated hardware and software designed to monitor and control activities in the production department of manufacturing organizations in order to achieve the maximum productivity with best quality. It is common fact that if productivity is more, then quality will be poor and, quality will be best with less production. But both facts are achieved in the manufacturing industries with the help of MES software.

MES Features:

1. Every organization need to maintain the track of products received by customers as well as when they received those products. MES system provides such part and lot traceability.
2. Test and measurement solutions guarantee high precision measurement of data in automotive manufacturing industries and with MES system, test and measurement data collection becomes easy.
3. In every manufacturing industry, mistake proofing is necessary which will help to prevent errors that cause defects or notify the operator if error has occurred or to prevent the defect from moving to next level of process or reaching the customer. Such mistake proofing or in Japanese term “Poka-Yoke” is one such best feature of MES system. Hence, mistake proofing will gain more customers to an organization.
4. In manufacturing industries, MES system will take overall control of the process.
5. Sometimes, there will be a defect in a product which will be easily recognized by MES system and takes necessary action to rework in product.
6. MES system will monitor production by hourly or shift basis, as its main aim is to increase productivity with best quality.
7. MES system will display operator work instructions at workstations.
8. MES system interface with both ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and MRP (Manufacture Resource Planning).

When to implement MES?

Typically, organizations consider installing a MES when:

• an organization wanted to launch a new product in the market or to provide upgrade of old product.
• company wanted to expand the Plant or factory or to make rearrangement
• they plan for a new automation or process
• an organization wanted to lead the manufacturing industry by improving the quality.

Most the organizations are now installing Ujigami MES, as they working to “Be the Best” and leads all other existing systems Zero Defect Manufacturing providing a good oversight and control.