muhammad ulil albab: Manufacturing Execution System

The rapidly growth of globalization has associated factors of increasing effectiveness in production, shortening innovation cycles, and other field.  It has been possible to compensate this issue by relocating production base to low-cost countries. However, in the medium term, the demands of workers in countries that are still low cost will increase, and production costs will rise as a result. Tolls will be needed to increase efficiency in existing production processes. It also must be considered that production in high-cost countries definitely has its advantages, so these countries are becoming more and more feasible as production base. On the other hand, the degree of automation is already extremely high in these countries, so modifying production processes will not increase efficiency significantly.

The other challenges for production-oriented information technology (IT) system come from norms and guidelines, such as quality assurance standards and regulations in the food and pharmaceutical industries. For now, transparency and traceability are playing an increasingly important role in other sectors as well.

The development of enterprise resource planning (ERP) also helps company to achieve effective value creation in production, equipment and they can meet these demands 100 percent. The challenges are not only how to win competition but also how create system that can be controlled real time involves function for planning, logging, and control it in real time. From these systems, the concept of manufacturing execution system (MES) has arisen.

An alternatively used and more meaningful term for MES is collaborative production management (CPM), but this term thus far has not become well established. The concept of collaborative  that is contained in CPM is meant to indicate that it is not just the core elements such as planning, implementation, and the recording and examination of information that work together, but that the peripheral areas such as ERP, marketing, and purchasing are also involved in the exchange of information. With the aid of suitable Web Technologies, these systems form an enterprise production management (EPM) system, in which MES data and information are made available to all those in the plant involved in the value-creation  process in an event-based form.

Reference

Meye, H., Fuchs, F., & Thiel, K. (n.d.). Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES): Optimal Design, Planning, and Deployment (1st ed.). New York: McGraw Hill. Retrieved from 978-0071623834