MES – Manufacturing monitoring and management system

The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) helps factories to plan, monitor, track and collect data on the production cycle accurately and continuously, improve the ability to complete the plan, understand capture demand and the status of raw materials, semi-finished products, and labor as well as improve the efficiency of the overall production management of the plant.

What is MES?

MES (Manufacturing Execution System) can be divided into 2 components: Planning component and Execution component.

 
Planning: Helping the production manager to set input parameters, based on production needs (from business activities, Sales Department) to schedule production, allocate resources, allocate production orders to proceed with the manufacturing process.
Execution: Collect real data from production sites (machinery, support equipment, human) in real time, visualize the status, monitor production flow, analyze and match with planning, promoting constant control of progress, resources and quality, improving the ability to complete production plans.

The Planning component focuses primarily on the management, planning and allocation on the software system, applying to management, managerial and production management levels. Input information can be integrated with Management software such as Sales management, warehouse management (materials, finished products), Supplier management, Equipment management … or from the files (Excel) and can also be entered manually. Data can be current needs, can also be analyzed from the past or forecast future demand
Meanwhile, the Execute component is highly automated and focuses on collecting current data in real time. The data is automatically collected by the sensor system, connected to machines, equipment or through basic operations of workers. Actual data will be transferred to storage in the software, as a basis for performing calculations, analyzes and comparisons, and support visualization in monitoring and supervision.

MES and Digital Transformation
Digital transformation – a trend that helps businesses change their production and business model to “digital” model instead of traditional, in order to improve automation, improve efficiency, and serve customers better and better. help businesses save costs, optimize management and sustainable development. For industrial production plants, digital transformation is also known as smart manufacturing.
MES is an indispensable component, the first step in the digital transformation of manufacturing plants. The most noticeable effect is the continuous monitoring and visualization of immediate production activities, and sufficient information to support analysis and improvement.

MES is an inevitable trend in production
How to make the production not be insufficient compared to the market demand? How not to inventory too large due to overproduction? How to know the materials meet the order? When need to supply? How to get the truck ready for the materials at the production location (Just-in-time)? Maintenance staff can be ready at the location of a malfunction or machinery failure …
These questions can all be answered with the MES system. With the current trend of industrial revolution 4.0, wireless communication systems being strong and stable commercialization, MES is an inevitable trend. It should be noted that in the countries with strong manufacturing industries, MES has been applied very early, incorporating and upgrading from andon production monitoring systems, energy monitoring … These technology solutions have proven their properties. Outstanding efficiency in industrial production.

MES application steps
In order to apply MES, factories should deploy step by step from the basic to build a unified and synchronized platform. The first application step is Andon, upgrading the manufacturing monitoring system to collect continuous and instant information in all activities from machinery, equipment to people. Next, businesses will gradually improve the process, plan, integrate various sources of information from the ERP software system, to collate reality and plans, improve output, quality and reduce. minimal waste.
Avani is a comprehensive and synchronized iAndon solution provider. Avani’s iAndon solution has proven outstanding in various types of manufacturing and applications in many fields such as apparel, footwear, auto and motorcycle parts, leather goods manufacturing, mechanical and electronic products. …

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