Remove Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Remove Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Remove Quality Management System Remove Smart manufacturing
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More answers on bridging the gap from edge to cloud MES to make automation more effective

Control Engineering

Question : How do you address the security risk of enterprise resource planning (ERP) data going through MES to Level 2 to run batches, start production runs, changes grades? Some may choose to split out important functions in this middle layer into different types of systems. Harrison: That depends.

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Increasing production with less capital

Control Engineering

Manually-reported overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) was inaccurate and lacked data necessary to determine true utilization. The PLC system tracking file captured machine state, production/reject counts and the first fault for each machine. How have you improved manufacturing production? MORE ANSWERS.