The process reporting—or Manufacturing Execution System (MES)—functions of a production facility are key to delivering the plant floor information necessary to optimize production activities. A successfully deployed MES can drive effective process operations by capturing historical and current real-time data to guide, respond to and report on process performance as it occurs.
For manufacturers operating in a regulatory industry such as life sciences or food production, an MES implemented by Wunderlich-Malec can be successfully deployed to provide the following functions:
- Lot tracking and genealogy
- Performance analysis
- Process management
- Document control
- Data collection acquisition
- Quality management
- Maintenance management
- Resource allocation and status
- Operations scheduling
- Product run sheets
- Downtime reporting
- Batch reporting
- Yield reporting
- Hourly and shift reports
- Ingredient usage and inventory
- HACCP monitoring
The plant floor controllers, whether PLCs, PACs or DCSs, are programmed to provide the data for the MES functions. Wunderlich–Malec has designed a wide range of MES projects, including:
- Develop route diagrams
- Downtime event triggers
- Process management
- Downtime recognition logic
- Batch complete triggers
- Waste event triggers
- Batch totals reporting
- Waste ID logic
- Mass balance calculations
- Product run sheets
- Installation
- Testing and checkout
- Commissioning
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