Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

Production guiding system, short MES (engl. Manufacturing Execution system) in production business of the link between data base, material storage, working machines and the planned and producing staff.

History

Since the turn of the millenium computer controls arrived in almost all working machines and inventory management systems of the woodworking. Database for bookkeeping, material storage and order administration. The product manufacturing takes place almost excluseively on CAD-workplaces, which transfer product data via the CAM softoware onto the machine. Thus the inefficiency in the serial production can be increased. The increasing tendency according to product diversity, the lot size 1 in connection with it and the just-in time production cannot be managed in greater businesses with such single and ridig booths. In order to change order priorities on short notice as well as to use the capacity of machines and workspaces efficiently the connection of all involved components was necessary. They are an important component of the industry 4.0.

What does the production system offer?

  • Insight in all customer orders with detail information
  • Prediction of necessary production times
  • Automatic optimisation of production processins in the planning phase
  • Supply of specific production data for different processing machines in cutting, edging, drilling and assembly
  • Information via the machining stand from the orer to single workpieces in real time
  • Input in ongoing production, e.g. change of priorisation of single production batches, detours of material flows at maintenance, machine failure or overload.
  • Needs-based postproduction
  • Overview over storage management in connection to pending orders
  • Overview over machine availability and machine condition data
  • Connecting of various production locations (Industry 4.0)
  • Evalutation of closed production processes with regard to efficiency

What do production management systems consist of?

  • MES Software
  • Network consisting of master computer, scanners, storage and machine control as well as input and dispensing means of the manual labour jobs
  • Dispensing mean for manual labour jobs for depicting workpiece sketches, packaging information and dates
  • Input mean for production reports on manual labour jobs
  • Construction piece identification (e.g. Barcode, RFID-Chips, scanner)

What do production management systems need?

  • Data from the resource planing system (ERP) for personal, machines and finances
  • A central order data base
  • Production data from the CAD/CAM work preparation

Provider

Here is an extract, which offer production managment systems to machines and software manufacturers

Connected links

Images

BAVANT - Übersicht über die Produktion
BIESSE, 2017

Software