Current technologies and innovation
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Current technologies and innovation
There is a seismic shift taking place in the MES market driven by IIoT , cloud and the rising interest of AI / machine learning . Most of the MES vendors Gartner covers are at some stage of rearchitecting their technology to take advantage of platform-as-aservice ( PaaS ), microservices based ‘ service bus ’ approaches with low code / no code application development .
The most innovative have taken these approaches and created technologies that can manage high volume data from IIoT and transactional data from
MES in the same data model . Gartner is also seeing innovation in creating user experience ‘ personas ’ for both UI and process definition . These tools , as well as crowd-source app stores are providing organisational building blocks to simplify and democratise MES . The challenge to these approaches is providing the necessary governance and ‘ guardrails ’ in these PaaS offerings to maintain product quality and employee safety .
Rick Franzosa , Senior Director Analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain Practice
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