Development trend of MES under digital transformation

I talked about the convergence of digital transformation, Lean and MES. Next, let’s talk about what kind of MES is needed under digital transformation. Through my observation, under the background of digital transformation, the development trend of MES is mainly reflected in four aspects:

The first is the expansion of the business scope, bringing MES greater breadth of integration and collaboration. For example, horizontally, from a single production line, workshop to multi-workshop, multi-factory collaborative management and control development, from within the enterprise to multi-enterprise system integration and collaborative development. Vertically speaking, the original operation of MES relies on people to support it, but with the development of digital technology, it has changed to the integration of automation and intelligent equipment.

Second, from the expansion of the depth of the business, bringing the depth of the integration of the MES process business, MES very emphasis on management business, but with the in-depth operation of MES, management must be considered on the basis of the combination of the process, not just MES in the statistical discovery of problems, but should be found in the process of manufacturing execution after the problem, real-time solution. This requires process decision of process link and process chain.

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The third business synergy deepens, bringing MES lean and fine control and decision-making. Mass customization, for example, brings the future of batch 1 extreme production organization, requiring very fine control. For lean management decisions, such as outsourcing, what to take out, overtime, who to work overtime, and how long to work. There are also multi-workshop, multi-factory collaborative planning, distribution decisions, are management decisions, business more and more in-depth, the connotation of coordination requires MES to reflect.

The fourth dynamic nature of business management determines that MES must develop in the direction of flexible and extensible architecture. The digital business management and control system should adapt to the development and changes of enterprises, and the service architecture and middle-platform operation proposed now are summarized as model-driven, which is the focus.

03New features of MES under the background of digital transformation

The first is the automation of business process management, and the JIT is also mentioned before, and the idea of integrating JIT into MES should be what it looks like.

The second is the integration of software and hardware, such as the feedback state of MES directly from the machine tool or equipment automatically executed in the past, automatically instructs it and so on. In the Amberg factory of Siemens in Germany, there is a module called NCprogram Generate in the control system, which is equivalent to that all programs can be generated in time and sent to specific affairs at the same time, that is, the execution integration of software and hardware integration, which is a new feature of MES.