Sena Düzgün (Writer)
25 April 2024
Who needs MES Systems and why?
Today, customer expectations include high quality standards as well as price advantages. Manufacturers have to keep up with these high standards and target prices.
Therefore, today's manufacturers have to produce at high standards and do so by reducing their costs. At this point, there is a search for a way out. As a result of this search, manufacturers who realize their problems in the production area, conduct research to overcome this problem, create their options and determine the method, realize that they need the MES System.
What are the stages necessary for a successful MES project?
The enterprise that wants to acquire MES must first address all its processes and identify its problems correctly and clearly. These problems are
- Engineering in planning starts in the office and covers the entire production site until shipment.
- There are quality problems,
- There are very frequent breakdowns,
- There is a lack of capacity,
- There is a lack of traceability,
- There is underperformance, it goes on to say...
Then these problems need to be prioritized. In other words, I'm talking about prioritizing which ones hurt me the most and which ones I can eliminate easily and in a short time. Recognizing the problem and accepting its existence with the correct diagnosis is actually half of this path. Then the most ideal method to eliminate the existing problems should be determined.
For example, let's take an example of a production facility that has a machine park of 20 units. In normal time; in this enterprise, as in many factories in our country, there is an intense capacity problem. It may be preferable to go and buy the 21st machine for 300 thousand euros or 400 thousand euros because it is a comfortable and old method that has been experienced many times. Or, by acquiring a strong MES system, it can gain 4 machines with only 20% productivity increase below average in a short period of 1 year with a budget well below 300 thousand Euros.