Reporting and Analysis Techniques in Manufacturing Execution Systems , (MES)

As of the second half of the same century, the rapid increase in the number of companies doing the same job brought competition. With the advent of computers, the concept of Information Systems began to be pronounced.

Records, which were initially kept by hand, started to move to the digital environment with the appearance of computers in the industry. Information systems first planned the material in enterprises. In this system called MRP (Material Requirements Planning), computers informed human beings when the raw materials of the products to be produced should be ordered to the supplier by looking at the deadlines of sales orders.

While the companies that used this system were initially satisfied with it, fierce competitive conditions dictated that in addition to materials, machines also needed to be planned. In this process, the system called MRP II (Manufacturing Resource Planning) informed the team which part should be produced on which machine in order to meet sales.

The next stage/need was to enter and report not only production but also all processes of a company such as sales, purchasing, human resources, accounting into information systems. The system we call ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) was doing exactly this job. By ensuring that all personnel entered timely and accurate information, ERPs were able to x-ray the company and tell bosses exactly how the company was doing. Moreover, it warned the authorities in advance about making new investments or making savings.

Technology and competition are increasing so fast that ERPs are no longer enough for companies that want to institutionalize. Companies open work orders in the system, enter raw material and finished goods movements, but this alone is not enough. When a machine that should produce 100 pieces per hour produces 85 pieces, they cannot get to the root cause of this. Or they cannot see in detail how efficiently the personnel work on a daily basis, how many breakdowns and downtimes the work machines experience.

Based on this need, software companies have started to develop a system that will track all the operations of the enterprises in the field, sal by sal (not seconds!). This system, whose general name is MES (Manufacturing Execution System), presents you what is happening in production from A to Z on both machine and personnel basis.

"Mert Software", which is one step ahead among the companies in Turkey due to its instant response to the developments in the sector, serves the leading companies in Turkey today with the Trex program.

Thanks to the touch Operator Panel screens located at strategic points in the field, it collects the data and presents it to the engineering team for detailed analysis.

The working principle of the program is that it receives signals above a certain voltage coming to the machine and stores them in its memory. At the same time, operators at the machine, quality and maintenance teams can quickly enter downtime and/or quality/maintenance operations on the touch screens.