By Arne Svendsen, Industrial Digitisation Advisor at www.asticon.dk
Article version log / newest first:
- July 11th: Moved to ASTICON Blog, updated.
- July 3rd: Initiated on LinkedIn
Article content:
Section 1 - Introduction
Section 2 - Gathering information from YOU
Section 3 - Updated List of MES Vendors
Section 1 - Introduction to the MES Survey
I am often approached by customers within the Manufacturing part of the Supply Chain organisations, raising the question, whether to implement an MES-system or an Industrial-IoT suite - or a combination of both.
The answer is not a simple one..
It depends on aspects such as:
- The number of production sites, and my customers are mostly in the of 10+.
- The variation driven by the product variation - and production-process variation
- The maturity of in terms of existing Automation level, installed Historians etc.
- The as-is "MES solution" - Excel are still widely used Manufacturing Execution Solutions, still in 2020. At least in parts of sites.
- The Supply Chain Strategy - including the Digital Strategy.
To better answer questions from customers - as well as from my specialist colleagues by the vendors - I am now collecting information across the market.
Section 2 - Gathering information on current MES market ..
I am hoping to get inputs from you on your preferred MES solution.
I know there is many of you working as:
MES-specialists in the Supply Chains, and I hope to hear your real experiences, to the extent, you are allowed to share. Perhaps on 1:1 sessions, where I can share some market overview in return.
MES-specialists on the Vendor side. I am happy to set up 1:1 sessions to understand your software, and thereby perhaps be able to bridge it toward my customers requirements. As a minimum, I can give you market feed back in general on what customers are moving towards, it be classic MES and/or I-IoT/Cloud/EDGE
Section 3 - My current MES Vendor Gross-list
Based on a lot of great inputs from my LinkedIn network, my grosslist looks like this - in alphabetic order:
- ABB MES
- Aspen
- FactoryTalk CPG Suite (Rockwell)
- Ignition
- OSIsoft PI
- SAP ME
- SAP MII
- Simatic-IT
- Wonderware MES (Aveva)
Other / IIOT / Industry-vertical solutions:
- PTC ThingWorx ( I need a closer look before I categorise this product - here is the spot where MES meets IIoT)
- Proleit (predominantly in Brewing Industry, but not only)
- Emydex (predominantly in Meat factory, but not only)
- OAS Pronto (predominantly in Painting production, but not only)
- Siemens Camstar ( not in food/process industry)
- PAS-X (dedicated Pharma, but I havent opened the Pharma space -yet )
This article will be updated at ongoing basis with information that I am allowed to share - so stay tuned, thanks in advance. There will be more sections added ..
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