What is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)?
MES is a system used to deliver information that:

• enables the optimization of production activities from order launch to finished goods.
• uses current and accurate data that guides, initiates, responds to and reports on plant activities as they occur.
• improves the return on operational assets as well as ontime delivery, inventory turns, gross margin, and cash flow performance.
• provides key information to operations, the business, customers and suppliers for continuous process improvement.

Source: MESA International

Benefits of MES
The benefits of a MES system include:

• Improved cycle-time visibility
• Improved work-in-process (WIP) visibility and reduction of WIP
• Accurate yield calculations
• Accurate real-time production and order aging
• Real-time quality management
• Equipment uptime monitoring
• Key componenet for lean manufacturing

Bigston Systems and MES
The Bigston Systems™ provide a flexible and powerful infrastructure for your MES and lean manufacturing initiatives. These systems will track and report your key performance indicators (KPI) with a real-time web-based "digital dashboard". Due to its support table design, you have tremendous flexibilty to define the parameters that you wish to track.

Because it is web-based, this real-time information can be viewed from remote locations around the world using your existing network capabilities.

Bigston Systems™ put you in control of your production!