Market Guide for Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Software
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...you will find a Market Guide for Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software from Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. This Market Guide will assist you with assessing the MES market along with advice for selecting an MES solution.
This newsletter provides additional information on what is MES, what does MES mean to you, why companies are adopting MES, what to look for in MES vendors, plus case studies and customer testimonials on how they are achieving growth with IQMS.
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Market Guide for Manufacturing Execution System Software
21 June 2016
Manufacturing executives are looking to MES software as an enterprise solution that aligns manufacturing and supply chain technologies. This Market Guide will assess the state of the MES market and provide advice for choosing and implementing MES solutions.
Key Findings
- Companies successfully implementing MES view MES as an enterprise solution, not just something for individual plant performance improvement.
- The market is changing as larger ERP, product life cycle management (PLM) and operational technology (OT) vendors continue to acquire established pure-play MES vendors and new vendors enter the space.
- Advanced technologies (e.g., cloud, Internet of Things [IoT] and mobile) will pressure MES users and practitioners to ensure that MES applications keep pace with the features that users have come to expect from their consumer device experience.
- Multitenant SaaS MES offerings are appearing in the market, predominantly in the discrete manufacturing midmarket.
Recommendations
- Prioritize domain expertise when evaluating MES partners. Be sure to partner with providers that know and understand your business and have a track record to prove it.
- Choose a vendor based on long-term business need. In meeting those needs, the solution you choose may not be a traditional MES system.
- Make sure the vendor you choose has the vision to support analytic tools to make sense of the onslaught of data that the IoT will bring, as well as a technology roadmap for alternative deployment implementations.
Market Definition
The manufacturing execution system (MES) market has almost as many definitions as there are vendors. This has been further obfuscated by the creation of terms like manufacturing operations management (MOM).
Gartner defines MES as "a specialist class of production-oriented software that manages, monitors and synchronizes the execution of real-time, physical processes involved in transforming raw materials into intermediate and/or finished goods. These systems coordinate this execution of work orders with production scheduling and enterprise-level systems like ERP and product life cycle management (PLM). MES applications also provide feedback on process performance, and support component and material-level traceability, genealogy, and integration with process history, where required."
These capabilities extend from product design release (PLM) and work order release (ERP) through completion of the manufacturing process. MES in Gartner's definition does not include the automation layer, such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), human-machine interface (HMI), or programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Read more ›