Manufacturing Execution System - Mes

ISBN-13: 9783642080647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str.

Jurgen Kletti

Opis

The transformation of the classic factory from a production facility into a modern service center has resulted in management problems for which many companies are not yet prepared. The economic efficiency of modern value creation is not a property of the products but rather of the process. What this means is that the decisive potentials of companies are to be found not so much in their production capability but in their process capability. For manufacturers the requirement for process capability, which has in the meantime become the basis of the certification codes, gives rise in turn to the requirement that all value-adding processes be geared to the process result and thus to the customer. A necessary condition of process transp- ency is the ability to map the company's value stream in real time, without the acquisition process involving major outlay a capability which is - yond the dominant ERP systems. Today modern manufacturing execution systems (MES) can offer re- time applications. They generate current and even historical maps for p- duction equipment and can thus be used as a basis for optimization pr- esses. As early as the beginning of the 1980s work started on methods of this kind which were then known as production data acquisition or - chine data collection. But while the main emphasis in the past was on achieving improvements in machine utilization, today the concern is p- dominantly to obtain real-time mapping of the value stream (supply chain)."

Spis treści

New ways for the effective factory.- MES for process capability.- Added value from software.- MES: the new class of IT applications.- Building an MES system.- Integrated production management with MES.- Detailed planning and control with MES.- Quality assurance with MES.- Personnel management with MES.- MES with SAP.- MES in plastics processing.

O autorze

Dr. Jürgen Kletti, born in 1948, studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, specializing in Engineering IT. After graduation, he founded the company MPDV Mikrolab GmbH where he now acts as CEO and President. Since 1990 MPDV has mainly been dealing with software products and services for the manufacturing industry. MPDV’s main product is the software system HYDRA, which offers, besides the MES functions, numerous applications to increase efficiency.

Blurb

The production plants of today develop into modern service centers. Economic efficiency of modern added value is not a property of products alone but of the process. Decisive potential in business now is a question of process capability, rather than production capability. Process capability in business requires real-time systems for optimization. Business-IT needs to be developed from telecommunications and ERP to real time services, which are not offered by the prevailing ERP systems.

Today, only modern Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) offer real-time applications. They generate current as well as historic mappings of production facilities and thus they can be used as basis for optimizations. It is important to map the supply chain in real time. Increasing complexity in production requires an integrated view of the production and service facilities: detailed scheduling, status collection, quality, performance analysis, tracing of material and so on have to be recorded and displayed in an integrated way.

MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association) standardized applications. Further standardizations on this subject are already being developed, like ISA S95. Expectations regarding MES are high, related to TQM, SIX Sigma, production scheduling or optimized material movements.

This book describes the requirements for optimized Manufacturing Execution Systems.