MES: The path to intelligent manufacturing

The adoption of experience inside the Manufacturing Industry has been gradual, nonetheless common. Technology adoption has been comparatively sooner when it has helped improve productiveness, improve prime quality, and cut back costs. Industry CXOs are glad that IT has a critical place to play in manufacturing, nonetheless decrease than 30 p.c of producers have adopted Industry 4.0 utilized sciences.[i] Now, with COVID-19 disrupting present chains, producers are being compelled to have a look at virtualization and automation options for his or her crops and MES in a bid to make them further resilient.

The downside is that many manufacturing organizations have created home-grown devices spherical Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM). These choices cannot get up to the shock of COVID-19 form disruptions. They need to evolve into Smart Manufacturing applications. This is why, now could be an environment friendly time to spend cash on full-fledged MES that leads to a associated, clear, optimized and agile group.

There are pockets inside the manufacturing sector that admire the potential of MES. However, most are nonetheless enhancing their understanding of MES and the way in which it could extract benefits all through the supply chain.

At KONE, the Finnish engineering suppliers group recognized for its shifting walkways and elevators, MES has been used as a spot to start for its transformation to a digital manufacturing facility. “MES won’t be solely about machine implementation,” says Martin Navratil, Director, Manufacturing Network Development, who has been implementing MES at KONE for a few years now. “It is regarding the dedication of administration and alter administration.”[ii] KONE embedded MES into its manufacturing method to entry precise time data whereas executing processes of their warehouse or all through manufacturing on the shop floor. The availability of regular data (all through a shift, day-wise, week-wise, and plenty of others.) has improved effectivity and responsiveness to purchaser desires. Navratil says that MES has made an have an effect on in 4 areas:

• Driving collaborative innovation: MES is the inspiration to ship digital competencies into the organizations by synchronizing the processes, devices, provides, gear and different individuals on a world scale.
• Enabling a service ideas set: MES connects geographically dispersed factories, inserting an end to unsustainable and fragmented applications. The flexibility it provides helps a service ideas set.
• Building purchaser centric choices: MES minimizes the cycle time and improves responsiveness. It moreover provides data to always drive a Lean and Six Sigma custom to improve prime quality.
• Fast and good execution: MES provides most transparency to prospects relating to deliveries. Real time data is visually on the market to everyone, allowing the group to put the shopper on the center of the operations, cut back time to market and create purchaser perception.

MES areas precise time data into the arms of the group, allowing it to develop to be intelligent and exploit options for sooner enchancment. Not solely can supervisors monitor manufacturing all through a shift (to get hold of targets or improve asset utilization) nonetheless they will moreover change the granular data to completely different parts of the group harking back to the maintenance and engineering teams for sooner service response and to enable regular enchancment. The data moreover introduces good traceability, predominant to excellence in provide. “MES has launched many further options to get hold of increased outcomes,” observes Navratil.

For manufacturing organizations, MES is strategic to altering one of the simplest ways of working and to enhance technological maturity – a vital pre-condition to the adoption of Industry 4.0 utilized sciences. KONE provides an occasion of how MES can have an effect on the group and make it future ready.

[i] https://iot-analytics.com/industry-4-0-adoption-2020-who-is-ahead/

[ii] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYmpRt9BtsA&itemizing=PLAqtx75lIaRK5d4HvBkGHm_6cBwgieI2i&index=11&t=5s

 

 

Co-Authored by:

 

Martin Navratil

Director, Manufacturing Network Development, KONE

 

Pareekh Jain

Founder and Lead Analyst, EIIR Trend

 

Nitin Kumar Kalothia

Associate Partner, Business Consulting Group, ITC Infotech