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Smart manufacturing, MES, automation make good business sense

Control Engineering

Properly deploying an MES can result in reductions in material and labor costs, productivity and batch yield increases and reduction in material waste. BOMs define the materials and quantities that are required to make a product. When talking about smart manufacturing or industry 4.0,

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Critical Manufacturing at Hannover Messe 2023: Expect More From Your MES

i4.0 today

Critical Manufacturing will be highlighting to visitors how its MES empowers manufacturers with advanced capabilities to drive innovation, increase connectivity, and promote digital transformation with Industry 4.0 A highly innovative solution, the Critical Manufacturing MES facilitates the adoption of Industry 4.0

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Industry watch: A short guide to demystifying ERP and MES

Automation Mag

M anufacturers are being overwhelmed by the introduction of three and four-letter acronyms that describe things they are said to need to adopt and incorporate into their companies to have any chance of surviving into the future – such as ERP, MES, IIoT, Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing and digital transformation, and so on.