The era of post MES system has come gradually

MES Industry position

ERP、PDM And MES Software is the troika of enterprise informatization , Its important position cannot be shaken . Once I went to a manufacturing enterprise , The director of information technology talked with assurance ： We need to make Kanban for leaders 、 Make presentation reports of various businesses , I think the biggest problem of the enterprise is that the data can not be uploaded to the top leaders , So we all give the solutions of the operation decision center , Obviously, this kind of project positioning will be pushed back , Because although the direct demand of customers is data Kanban , But look at this enterprise carefully ： Only ERP System , Of course, this situation is also the epitome of domestic small and medium-sized enterprises , They basically use UFIDA ERP、 Kingdee ERP Or Kim Dae Jung ; And this kind of business is absolutely production oriented , because PDM It's not just for them , but MES The system platform is .

Although the customer's language leads us all the time to BI System , However, in view of the informatization characteristics of enterprises , We can actually make a bold guess , They put forward that all the information needs are actually MES The implication of , That is, the production data is missing , Unable to keep abreast of production progress . And we can boldly summarize ,MES It is the core of intelligent manufacturing information system , And not one of them .

It's perfect MES Nor is it the end of the business

When the manufacturer has not MES When the system is supported , A large part of any demand raised is based on MES Expanding for the main body ,MES It is a necessary starting point for smart factories , But not the last point , And I personally think that any project has no end , For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, everyone dreamed of red rabbits and horses that traveled thousands of miles every day , Now the high-speed railway can travel thousands of miles in fourorfive hours , But are people satisfied , Because the needs of the project are endless . So even MES The project will be successful again , No matter how much investment , The final result is that the main contradiction will gradually shift , After gradually entering MES Time .

after MES Navigation of the times

At present, according to the national positioning , Generally speaking, the direction of intelligent manufacturing is divided into ： Collaborative production 、 Green manufacturing 、 Scientific decision making 、 Safe production 、 Digital R & D , Except for digital R & D, these businesses are all MES Within the business scope of , So it is also for the later MES The times provide some directions for reference .

Before the country for GDP The brutal increase of some businesses will no longer exist , For green 、 The assurance of safety and quality will be gradually strengthened , At the same time, we are eager to add more value while producing high-quality products . Ford said before ：” No matter what color you need , We only have black “, If he still has this attitude , Ford will die miserably .

Because industries with excess capacity such as automobiles , Through the factory MES System 、SCM While realizing networked collaborative production , Has begun to focus on personalized customization 、 Extension of after-sales service , If the purpose of networked collaboration is to reduce costs , So personalized customization 、 The extension of after-sales service is entirely to increase new profit points .

after MES The development of the times

“ History is a little girl who can be dressed ”, How could an information system not be , Obviously MES It has been unable to solve all the business needs of production management and control of production enterprises , What to do next depends on the positioning of each enterprise , Obviously, this kind of function point combined project is also the normal state of informatization , For example, there is no exactly the same in the world ERP System , Are just a collection of business functions , According to resources 、 The division of production and other businesses is roughly different .

Where is the country gate at dusk ？

Although after MES There is no definite solution in the era of system customization , And then MES What the times have accomplished is not MES project , However, technicians' understanding of the manufacturing business cannot be lacking , Because we mentioned before MES System is the information core of intelligent manufacturing , This will not change .

MES It's actually a IT And IE combination ,IE It refers to a series of management systems such as lean production , That is to say, it is a combination of tools and ideas , But the past is against our wishes , Many Chinese enterprises do not attach importance to IE, Factory planning and design will not reserve IE The cost of planning , But it seems that the result doesn't affect , Because the data-driven fine management can also solve some problems .

after IT And IE After the farce of ,MES The direction of the manufacturing execution system will change , More will become IT And OT The combination of , With OT Means to release part of MES Labor entered manually , At the same time increase MES The authenticity of the data .MES Our business basically includes production planning 、 Production scheduling 、 Production execution 、 Production guarantee 、 Production resources 、 Production quality and production decision , Almost every part contains business points that can be deepened .

For example, production planning can APS To replace the formation of automatic production scheduling , Production execution can further improve the automation capability of the black box factory through automation transformation , Production resources can build expert knowledge base , With VR、AR Form cross space cooperation , The quality of production is promising , Automatically judge quality problems through machine vision , Say goodbye to the dilemma of manual judgment , In some projects, I have seen four people observe a certain color at the same time , It is qualified only after three people approve the color , Machine vision can solve this kind of problem , And quality analysis 、 If the quality traceability and other contents are put in MES Obviously MES Will be overwhelmed ;

Production decisions are also business points that can be deepened , Because I have seen the workshop director see the material information more than once ERP System , See the progress information in MES System , See the process information in PDM System , Because of a pure MES The information of the system is not comprehensive , Therefore, all kinds of data are summarized to give personalized data , The scientific decision-making of data-driven production will be one of the directions .

Comprehensive speaking ,MES The optimization space of the production management system is large , But you can't touch the root ,MES The basic business is stable , That is to say, after MES Time will MES The system is not just a business system , It is more of a platform , Or using two states IT After the form MES The service of the times .

Conventional IT The system is relatively stable compared with the business 、 The industry standard is mature 、 The process is basically fixed , Use steady state IT To build an information system , To avoid unnecessary risks ; For businesses whose business models are not yet mature and need frequent trial and error , such as VR Remote maintenance can take advantage of sensitivity IT Realization 3-5 Days the system goes online quickly , And carry out rapid iterative optimization according to the response of the market .

Xintiandi outside the besieged city

If the plan 、 perform 、 quality 、 The guarantee is MES The four walls in the system city , So green manufacturing 、 Safety production is a colorful world outside the besieged city , In addition to the MES Based on , It is no longer a time period when quality and quantity can be sacrificed , adopt UWB Keep abreast of the workers' whereabouts , Automatic alarm for long-time stay in hazardous areas , Automatically judge workers' standardized operation through machine vision .

Taken together ,MES The times basically just through the form of manual input to get through the information of each production department , But the quality of information 、 The way of viewing and the intensity of information entry have basically been neglected , Therefore, it will focus on gathering all kinds of business data to assist production decision-making to the greatest extent , A single point of business will reduce the intensity of information entry , To achieve maximum data analysis and traceability as the core , At the same time, the application side of the business is based on data , Replace the artificial judgment by algorithm , Replace part of manual labor . Or that sentence , Information construction is similar to drug taking , As long as there is a source of funds, the demand will never stop .

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