Cloud MES: Cloud-based manufacturing execution system

Production, resources, scrap, shifts, operators, maintenance, machine control and orders are hard to plan when every department sits with its own piece. A cloud MES brings it all together in one place.

What is cloud MES?

Cloud MES stands for cloud-based Manufacturing Execution System: a system for running production that lives in the cloud.

It is a SaaS platform you open in a browser. In practice, it connects machines, systems and people across your production.

A cloud MES is typically connected to systems such as:

• SCADA
• ERP
• PLCs

It gives you the connection between systems that people often associate with Industry 4.0, and it builds a bridge toward Industry 5.0.

Why use a cloud MES?

A cloud MES helps you answer questions such as:

• How much capacity do we have left?
• Where are the bottlenecks?
• What can logistics or sales safely promise customers?
• Where should we plan the next maintenance?

Instead of going on gut feeling, you can make these decisions based on numbers from the shop floor.

OptiPeople Data Platform as a cloud MES

OptiPeople Data Platform is a cloud MES you can introduce step by step. You don't need a big IT project that has to be finished all at once.

You can start with one clear goal, for example:

• understanding your availability
• finding the bottlenecks
• helping logistics plan better

Then you can add more steps, for example:

• ERP integration
• SCADA integration
• maintenance planning
• predictive alarms that warn you before something goes wrong

The practical advantage

The big advantage of a cloud MES is that you can build it up a bit at a time.

Instead of putting your whole production at risk with one large transformation, you can start small, learn as you go and expand the system as it proves its value.