The benefits of Smart MES
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The benefits of Smart MES
This is something that Gartner has surveyed annually since 2012 . The top benefits from the standpoint of how MES is justified , as well as achieved , are quality improvement , improved visibility to manufacturing data , enforcement of standard manufacturing processes and improved employee decision making and competency ( through improved data access ).
Rick Franzosa , Senior Director Analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain Practice
smartphones but don ’ t have manufacturing domain expertise or experience with manufacturing software . Manufacturers are losing the institutional knowledge of their more seasoned workforce , so they need to turn this human-based knowledge into a digital asset through the use of work process management systems that capture domain expertise and drive consistent processes across the entire business – all facilities , all systems .”
Nine months on , when asked if these challenges have changed Gerstl adds , “ I ’ m not sure the challenges have changed , but maybe magnified . Manufacturers need a more holistic view of their operations . They want to anticipate supply chain and other disruptions . They are looking for global solutions that deliver global visibility , orchestrate the execution of their processes , optimise their assets and plants in the context of the enterprise as well as the supply chain . To do this , they need to put industrial data to work at an enterprise scale to enable visibility and scalability from their on-premise components to the cloud .”
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