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Atlas.MES production management System
MES (Manufacturing Execution System) is a production management system that helps you monitor and optimize production processes in real time.
MES provides a link between enterprise management systems (ERP) and automated production management systems (SCADA, DCS) to manage the entire product lifecycle, starting with planning and ending with the shipment of finished products.
MES helps manage production operations, including process planning, materials and inventory management, product quality management, production operations control, equipment efficiency and productivity monitoring, personnel management, etc.
Using MES allows you to increase production efficiency, reduce production costs, improve product quality, reduce the number of rejects, increase production speed, and improve supply chain management.
MES provides a link between enterprise management systems (ERP) and automated production management systems (SCADA, DCS) to manage the entire product lifecycle, starting with planning and ending with the shipment of finished products.
MES helps manage production operations, including process planning, materials and inventory management, product quality management, production operations control, equipment efficiency and productivity monitoring, personnel management, etc.
Using MES allows you to increase production efficiency, reduce production costs, improve product quality, reduce the number of rejects, increase production speed, and improve supply chain management.
Structure of enterprise systems
According to GOST R IEC 62264-1-2014 (IEC 62264), the integration of enterprise systems can be presented in the form of a pyramid.
Main tasks of the Atlas.MES IIoT platform
- 1Monitoring and management of production processes"Atlas".MES " allows you to quickly identify problems and malfunctions in production processes, as well as take measures to eliminate them."
- 2Data collection and analysis"Atlas".MES " collects and analyzes the resulting data to identify trends and problems in the production system." This helps to optimize production processes and increase production efficiency.
- 3Optimization of production processes"Atlas".MES " will allow you to optimize production processes using production data.
- 4Material resource management"Atlas".MES " will help you manage material resources, such as inventory, raw materials, and components." Can track expenses and control inventory to provide resources for production processes.
- 5Product quality managementUsing Atlas.MES" monitor product quality at every stage of the production process". This helps prevent defects and improve product quality.
- 6Energy management"Atlas".MES " allows you to manage energy consumption on the production line. Tracking the energy consumption of each piece of equipment will allow you to optimize its use and reduce energy costs.
Atlas.MES system blocks
Resource management: process equipment, materials, personnel, staff training, and other items, such as documents that must be available to start production activities. Provides a detailed resource history and ensures that the equipment is appropriately prepared for operation. Monitors the status of resources in real time. Resource management includes redundancy and dispatching, in order to achieve operational planning goals.
Provides ordering of production tasks based on order, attributes, characteristics, and recipes related to product specifics, such as shape, color, sequence of operations, and so on. and production technology. The goal is to create a production schedule with minimal equipment reconfigurations and parallel operation of production facilities to reduce the time to receive the finished product and downtime.
Manages the flow of product units in the form of tasks, orders, series, batches, and order orders. Dispatching information is presented in the sequence in which the work should be performed, and changes in real time as events occur at the shop floor level. This makes it possible to change the set calendar plan at the level of production workshops. It includes the functions of scrap elimination and waste recycling, along with the ability to control labor costs at each point of the process with data buffering.
Controls the content and passage of documents that must accompany the manufactured product, including instructions and standards of work, methods of execution, drawings, procedures for standard operations, part processing programs, records of product batches, reports on technical changes, transfer of information from shift to shift, and also provides the ability to maintain planned and reporting shop documentation. It also includes safety instructions, environmental protection control, state and necessary international standards. Stores the history of passing and changing documents.
Interaction of information subsystems for receiving, accumulating and transmitting technological and control data circulating in the production environment of the enterprise. This function provides an interface for getting data and parameters of technological operations that are used in forms and documents attached to a product unit. Data can be obtained from the shop floor level either manually or automatically from the equipment, at the required time scale.
Provides information about the status of personnel and their management in the required time scale. It includes presence and working time reporting, certification tracking, and the ability to track non-production activities such as material preparation or tool work as a basis for accounting for activity-based costing(ABC). You can interact with the resource allocation function to create optimal tasks.
Provides real-time analysis of measured indicators obtained from production to ensure correct product quality management and identify problems that require the intervention of service personnel. This function generates recommendations for troubleshooting problems and determines the causes of defects by analyzing the relationship between symptoms, staff actions, and the results of these actions. It can also monitor the implementation of statistical process management and Statistical Product Quality management(SPC/SQC) procedures, as well as manage the implementation of laboratory tests of product parameters. For this purpose, laboratory information and control systems(LIMS) are added to the MES.
Monitors the production process and either adjusts automatically, or provides support for operator decision-making to perform corrective actions and improve production activities. This activity can be either intraoperative and aimed exclusively at tracked and controlled machines and equipment, or interoperative, tracking the progress of the process from one operation to another. It may include alarm management to ensure that staff are guaranteed to be notified of changes in the process that go beyond acceptable sustainability limits. It provides the interaction between smart equipment and MES that is possible thanks to the data collection and storage function.
Monitors and manages the maintenance of equipment and tools. Ensures their operability. Provides planning of periodic and preventive repairs, repairs according to the state of health. Accumulates and stores the history of events that occurred (failures, performance degradation, etc.).) for use in diagnosing problems that have occurred and preventing possible problems.
Provides the ability to get information about the status and location of the order at any time. Status information may include information about who is performing the task, components, materials and their suppliers, lot number, serial number, current production conditions, as well as any alarms, reprocessing data, and other product-related events. The real-time tracking feature also creates an archived record of. This record provides traceability of components and their use in each final product.
Provides generation of reports on the actual results of production activities, comparing them with historical data and the expected commercial result of the project. The results of production activities include indicators such as resource utilization, resource availability, cycle time for a unit of production, compliance with the plan and compliance with operating standards of the company. It can include statistical quality control of processes and products (SPC / SQC). Organizes information received from various functions that measure production parameters. These results can be prepared in the form of a report or presented in real time as an ongoing assessment of the company's operational performance.
Integration with ERP
In order for the MES system to function efficiently in the enterprise, its close connection with the corporate ERP system is necessary. In the standard version, MES and ERP systems are connected in the following ways::
- Input and formation of normative reference information (NSI)
- Production planning
- Production accounting
- Warehouse accounting
- Sales service