The  wiki for MES EMEA

MES is a nebulous concept with industry defined structures, connectivity to enterprise and plant, and a host of Gurus.

EMEA is Europe and Middle East and African continents but "outsiders" welcome.

This wiki is aimed at sharing industry knowledge, news, problems, solutions, wisdom, networking and getting together.

MES stood for Manufacturing Execution Systems but has grown into a "concept space" which has been called ERP for manufacturing, middleware software layer, factorywide software systems... It has grown out of MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), interconnectivity standards and packages developed by end-users and primary software suppliers.

Widespread use and acceptance of ethernet as a general networking medium has also helped to build MES as more of a commodity and less of a magic art.  Efficiency improvements demanded by Lean, 6sigma and similar programs have needed something to manage, monitor, assess and correct any inefficiencies, problems, bottlenecks, etc. and MES has dramtically assisted end-users to achieve and exceed their goals.

If you know what SCADA, Execution Systems, S95, S88, B2MML, OPC, and PLC mean then there should be something for you here.

If you want to know more then we aim to help.

If you are an end-user who seeks assitance then we aim to help.

There are industry standards for definition, connectivity and relationships within software platofrms and hierarchy.

There are industry associations to define, help and promote the field.

This wiki is not for flagrant sales, promotion or marketing but is firmely targeted at sharing and assisting others in the field. Abusers of any kind will be excluded without notice.   Share and Enjoy.  Share and Enjoy.

Cevn Vibert

Group founder of MES EMEA networking

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If youy are interested by MES you should be aware about MOM as defined by ISA 95.

MOM stands for Manufacturing Operations Management. ISA 95 part 3 document introduced the term and clearly includes all manufacturing activities including Production, Quality, Inventory and Maintenance, all supported by a generic activity model. MOM acronym is also used by Gartner Group in their various market briefs, and is today seen as "MES revisited". In fact most customers are using the 2 acronyms alternatively to reference Level 3 related functions and systems positioned between Level 2 "Process control" and Level 4 "Business System".

Jean-Luc Delcuvellerie