The Role of MES in Manufacturing Management
MES is a plant-level information system that sits between the planning system of the corporate leadership and the direct industrial control system of the manufacturing process. It provides operators/managers with data and information about all the resources of the production process (people, equipment, materials, tools, and customer requirements) in a current view. the MES acts as an intermediate layer in an integrated factory automation system. In the MES lower layer, is the underlying production control management system SFC, including DNC, MDC, PDM, Tracker and NCCrib or a combination of these types. MES can be based on the underlying control system to collect real-time data related to production, the short-term production operations of the planning and scheduling, monitoring, resource allocation, and optimization of the production process. Functional modules include detailed scheduling of processes, resource allocation and status management, production unit allocation, process management, human resource management, maintenance management, quality management, document control, product tracking and product list management, performance analysis and data collection.
The salient feature of MES is the application-oriented model as the core system, connecting real-time databases and relational databases, process monitoring, control and diagnostics, environmental monitoring, unit integration, simulation and optimization of the production process. And at the management decision-making level, it carries out material balancing, production planning, scheduling, production scheduling, enterprise resource planning, offline online simulation and optimization. It can provide business users with a fast-response, resilient and refined manufacturing environment to help companies reduce costs, deliver on schedule, improve product quality and enhance service quality. At the same time, it can provide good enterprise information management for single mass production and mixed manufacturing enterprises with both multi-species small-lot production and mass production.Who comes first with MES and ERP?
MES is responsible for providing information on production activities throughout the entire process from order acceptance to the final product, and then feedback to the ERP production module. If you want to fundamentally improve labor productivity on the production line, or need to start from the MES, to speed up the production line operation process. Can be understood in this way, in terms of production management, MES is the internal cause, is the decisive factor, and ERP is the external cause, is responsible for the deployment of good materials, quality control and other "marginal" factors, no "edge" will certainly make the efficiency decline, the production line will be no No "edge" will certainly make the efficiency decline, the production line will be due to the lack of materials, no workers and other issues such as deceleration or standstill. However, there is no internal cause, then simply can not be called a modern production line. ERP without MES at the executive level is like having no sense of touch and vision, and can not get timely and accurate information feedback. For manufacturing enterprises, ERP is only the concept of management level, it will be the enterprise's production, inventory, finance, customers, sales and other levels of collection together, with scientific methods and process-oriented model, to achieve the highest efficiency of the enterprise. The MES, which uses current and accurate data, initializes production activities, guides, responds and reports on factory activities in a timely manner, and reacts quickly to changes in production status and conditions that may occur at any time. Therefore, there is an urgent need to improve production management and achieve cost reduction and efficiency of manufacturing enterprises, the first on the MES is very necessary. American Gallup MES manufacturing execution system, more than 20 years of global technology precipitation and experience accumulation, nearly 14 years of project implementation experience in China, applicable to all major manufacturing industries, and has a large number of successful cases, more than 80% of the users of the world's top 500 enterprises, can be realized with the enterprise's other information technology systems to achieve highly efficient integration of the application, especially in the aerospace, military industry, weapons industry, Electronic technology, equipment manufacturing, machine tool industry, automotive industry, medical equipment, mold industry, metal processing and other fields has occupied a leading position.Gallup MES Functions:
▼Comprehensive Management of Manufacturing Data
Comprehensive Management of Manufacturing Product Structures (Supports External Integration and Automatic Data Import) Comprehensive Management of Manufacturing Process Routes (Supports External Integration and Automatic Data Import) Comprehensive Management of Manufacturing Work Hour Quotas (Supports External Integration and Automatic Data Import) Unique Barcodes for Data Correlation and Tracking Comprehensive Basic information is necessary to realize the enterprise manufacturing execution management.
▼Production Planning Management
Comprehensively manages the entire production process of an enterprise's manufacturing orders. Through different project Kanban boards, you can learn about the task status, planned nodes, actual completion nodes, scrapped quantities, test-cut quantities, input quantities, output quantities, and other real-time information of each order, each part, each process, and each group of workstations. Through the intuitive graphical representations, as well as the colorful reminders, this makes it possible for The real-time information is visualized through intuitive graphical representations and color alerts, allowing leaders at all levels, production supervisors, and schedulers to grasp the status of production task execution in real-time and conveniently.
▼Capacity Balance Analysis
Through intuitive graphics and figures, it provides enterprises with task load analysis of work centers/equipment, task load analysis of departments/groups, and task load analysis of work types. Through the red cordon, it clearly identifies work centers/equipment, departments/groups, and work types that are overloaded with task loads. Through the detailed level-by-level query and analysis of the data, it helps the planners and schedulers to Through detailed data query and analysis at each level, it helps planning and scheduling to carry out task outsourcing and balancing, and optimize the production plan scheduling.
▼Task Dispatch Management
After the completion of the production plan, the task dispatch order is automatically generated, and the machining program, parts drawings, and process guideline documents are automatically delivered to the site through barcode scanning. With powerful task dynamic scheduling capability, the operator of the designated workstation at the site can use the task dispatch order to receive tools, fixtures, and materials, and carry out process operations such as machining, inspection, and stocking. The operator of the designated workstation on site can use the work order to receive tools, fixtures, materials, and carry out processing, inspection, warehousing, and other process operations, which can be used for the allocation of man-hours and billing management.
▼ Inventory management of finished products, work-in-progress, tools and fixtures
Supporting the management of classified warehouses such as finished product warehouses, turnover warehouses, and fixture/tool warehouses, it supports the checking of warehouses according to the complete set of products of an enterprise to carry out out the warehousing and the management of shortages of parts. With a powerful inventory retrieval capability, it supports the browsing of the current warehouse situation and the history of the record traceability system, all the processes can be operated through barcode scanning, which is both accurate and convenient. Convenient workshop work centers receive processing tasks at the same time, tooling / tooling warehouse can be based on the manufacturing order required for the tooling needs to prepare for the tooling / tooling and other tools such as the lack of pieces and overtime borrowing for early warning.
▼Plug-in APS (Advanced Plug-in Scheduling Engine)
Gallup MES provides solutions ranging from relatively simple limited-capacity planning systems to advanced planning and scheduling APS systems to supply chain planning, which is undoubtedly an effective tool for further improving production operation management by giving users an electronic tool to track and allocate daily production schedules. Planning provides a large number of reports and charts for querying.
▼Total Quality Management System Gallup's MES solution provides an optional set of computer networked quality management system solutions that integrate supplier management, advanced quality planning, data collection, information transfer, data analysis, real-time monitoring, information feedback, process control, document management, complaint management, gauge management, ERP system integration, and business decision making. For raw materials into the factory, manufacturing and in the process of user use of the product throughout the life cycle of data, networked, dynamic management, through continuous improvement, to further improve the production quality management until the enterprise level of the overall total quality management system (TQM).
▼Production system visualization management
Supporting human-computer interactive browsing operations based on the real situation of the enterprise site for virtual modeling of the scene can be selected through the left/right mouse button, browse the entire production process information in the form of 3D simulation reproduced in the workshop site, real-time understanding of the current situation of the production without having to leave home can be displayed in real time through the way of color or bubble the current working station processing tasks, processes, current status, operators, completion of the current processing task, the current status, the production of the workstation, and the production of the workstation, and so on. The MES system can realize
10 - 30% savings in material costs,
15 - 20% savings in labor costs through integration and linkage between systems to reduce material wear and inventory,
real-time feedback of data and resource management to improve direct and indirect labor efficiency. 20 - 50% savings in capital expenditures through direct and indirect labor efficiency improvements,
More than 35% improvement in customer service through better utilization of equipment, coordination of material distribution, and improved production capacity,
50% improvement in quality and elimination of defects through perfect production readiness to meet customer orders, quicker response time, and accurate and timely status feedback,
More than 50% improvement in quality and elimination of defects through integration and linkages between systems to reduce material wear and tear and reduce inventory,
Save 15 - 20% in labor costs through real-time data feedback and resource management. p>
Supervision and management of the production process and correct and rational workflow.