For discrete manufacturing enterprises with complex and changeable production processes, they are faced with many challenges, such as frequent changes of production operation plans, complex manufacturing processes, temporary order placement in the production process, and material shortage. Through the establishment of cooperative production management platform, strengthen the control, execution and synchronization, so as to shorten the delivery cycle and reduce inventory, improve efficiency and profit. Make production planning, production preparation, execution management and on-site production process no longer armchair tactics, to achieve full control of the manufacturing process.



Establishment of Production Collaborative Platform (MES) Information System: At present, most mainstream manufacturing execution systems are oriented to large enterprises, which rely on customization. The project implementation cycle is long, and the cost is high, and the investment of millions of dollars after several phases is huge. For the processing plant, itself also has the need for information, but also need to achieve the production process transparency, management system process and other goals. However, the traditional information system mostly separates the business process, production preparation is maintained in the tool management system, financial accounting is maintained in the financial system, manufacturing execution system is maintained in the MES, process routing is maintained in the process design system, and so on.



So, what kind of production collaborative platform (MES) systems and services can meet the needs of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises?



For small and medium-sized enterprises, we hope to focus on the core business of enterprises through a system, can meet 80% of the business requirements of enterprises. Realize production preparation, material quota, man-hour quota statistics, production order issuance, production scheduling, process route maintenance, work-in-progress tracking, contract management and other management requirements, and realize the closed-loop business system of "upper contract/order management -- workshop plan execution -- on-site process management".



MES should first of all be affordable



Take the small and medium-sized manufacturing that we have come into contact with as an example (referring to the number of people below 100-1000). Small and medium-sized enterprises have no fixed information department, and still focus on production business, so they need high software maturity, simple and easy to use, and cost-effective price at the same time.



MES function business to be simple and capable



We can't use complex functions! That's what we hear a lot from small and medium-sized businesses. For small and medium-sized enterprises, personnel capacity and management standards and other factors determine that the large and comprehensive system functions are doomed to be unable to be promoted and used.



So simple MES system function must be spell able, tube the point, and convenient operation is easy to fit in as little as possible of the data collection to create as much information as possible content, through production to obtain the basic information of the products: batch number, equipment, working procedure, time, order number, information processing, inspection personnel such as production process transparent, and auxiliary production management.



The main business of a manufacturing enterprise

Fig. 1 MES control specification



For the management of manufacturing enterprises, no matter how big or small the factory is, the content of management is nothing more than people, machinery, materials, law and environment. Large factories can regulate each work detail through MES control, while small factories need more flexibility in addition to key control points.

Figure 2 Production Collaborative Platform



For small factories, the "ring" in human, machine, law, ring and measurement is not so strong on the information demand, then, how to carry out simple barcode printing and scanning through MES system, to achieve the control of human, machine, material, law?



① People (Man)



Real-time production capacity and quality statistics of operators;


Process operation authority control.



② Machine



Realize the material error prevention, through the material traceability of products, through the product traceability of materials used, and then trace back to the material supplier information.



③ Method



Make the production process in the workshop strictly follow the defined production process;


Real-time quality control (material requisitions, work reports, scrapping, first inspection, continuing inspection);


Follow up problem tracking (equipment, process, material) in real time.



In addition to the above control and statistical content, the simple code scanning can realize the real-time production business of the Department of Engineering: material requestment, labor report, scrap, first inspection, continued inspection, disassembly and approval, and other functions.



Finally, the service is in place



Small and medium-sized enterprises concerns: production and manufacturing enterprises are mainly focused on production and manufacturing, often do not have professional IT departments, need software enterprises to provide a full range of IT services, such as server optimization, exception handling, regular training, etc. There will be different needs and product function upgrades in different periods.



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