Critical Manufacturing MES for Industrial Manufacturing
Industrial manufacturers face similar challenges to both Automotive and A&D—the rapid digitization of the industry which is changing not only the way they operate, but the way their customers are operating as well.
According to Gartner, "by 2024, 50% of MES solutions will include industrial (IIoT) platforms synchronized with microservices-based manufacturing operations management (MOM) apps." - In Critical Capabilities for MES Report 2020 - Read the report.
Industry 4.0 is key to drive operational excellence at all levels with the latest technologies in the IT/OT Space for Industrial Manufacturer.
Key Challenges of Industry 4.0 for Industrial Manufacturing addressed by Critical Manufacturing MES:
 | Innovation: supports the manufacture of highly customized products with shortened delivery cycles |
| Addresses supply chain flexibility at a global level |
| Addresses regional Quality & Regulatory compliance in an export-driven market |
| Removes the dependency on paper-driven manufacturing operations, which are labor intensive and slow decision-making |
| Addresses the skill gap due to an aging workforce by digitizing processes and procedures |
| Increases inventory visibility in real-time |
| Remedies maintenance and downtime on legacy and outdated systems |
Key Capabilities of Critical Manufacturing MES for Industrial Manufacturing
| Provides a dynamic 3D visualization (‘digital twin’) of the shop floor |
| Scales easily with growing operational needs |
| Drives visibility of production and costs across the supply chain for better decision making |
| Enables IoT-enabled production marketplace for smart factories |
| Allows users to quickly learn and do their job from any location, even with mobile devices |
| Analyzes, tracks, and executes continuous improvement |
| Enables efficient manufacture of personalized, mass customized and low volume products faster, more reliably, at higher quality and lower cost |
| Advanced analytics allow predictive measures in the face of shifting business realities |
| Real-time visibility and control of production processes, even across partner or remote sites |
| Reduced equipment and IoT device automation effort with a single view of all automation workflows, with one click deployment |
| Horizontal integration provides better synchronization for a smart supply chain |
| Vertically integrates IoT and shop floor with enterprise-wide information flows |
