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If you think of a supply chain as a system which can then be broken down into smaller links, each of which forms a function, e.g., transport from A-B, optimal use of warehousing, inventory control, and product manufacturing lifecycle. These flows may pass from controller to controller, and up and down to the MES as required.
However, once in manufacturing, the 3D model is essentially lost as each team in the downstream production process uses the model in different ways and in different forms. For manufacturing purposes, the product design is often delivered in sets of 2D engineering drawings. But how digitalized does it need to be?
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Critical Manufacturing, a leader in advanced ManufacturingExecutionSystems (MES) and a subsidiary of ASMPT, reports that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide ManufacturingExecutionSystems 2024-2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51813624, November 2024).
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Smart manufacturing technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), digital twins, digital threads, manufacturingexecutionsystems (MES), advanced analytics, cobots and more all very powerful technologies.
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Northbound integration: Modern SCADA systems are vast repositories of data and layered analytics. SCADA solutions are now equipped with modules that can package data into contextualized transactions, as appropriate for the information systems these are feeding.
Implemented in manufacturing facilities, low-code systems encapsulate many of the most effective aspects of technology in use in manufacturing today, creating powerful cross-functional systems that can be developed and used by anyone in the organization, regardless of programming prowess.
One example is where two parts are sourced from separate suppliers and then fastened together to form an assembly. When an OEM is willing to share the larger picture of how the materials are consumed, smart suppliers often can show how to reduce assembly steps. Then the OEM can buy the two parts and assemble them on their own.
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But not in the MES area that I began my software career working with. The AI component assumes many forms. In todays news, we have AI assisting visual inspection (in a way a quite old application updated with new developments) integrating with MES. The companions to software have been security and artificial intelligence (AI).
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