Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

Advanced manufacturers find themselves in increasingly competitive marketplaces. Cost pressures, delivery dates, and regulatory compliance require manufacturers to launch faster, reduce costs, control quality, and provide traceability into their shop floors at unprecedented levels.

The Challenge

Manufacturers must embrace a world of shorter production runs and extended supply chains, and accomplish their goals faster and with fewer engineering and administrative resources. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) offer the shortest route to control and visibility into your manufacturing processes. However, the road to successful MES implementation is littered with failed attempts, cost overruns, and partially implemented systems.

The Solution

PEERFactory MES is one of a suite of flexible, robust, and scalable PEERFactory components. At PEER Group, we understand that connecting to factory automation is paramount. As such, our components are built upon our PEERFactory Data Management Framework (DMF™), which allows for connectivity to a wide range of factory automation, using a wide range of communication protocols.

PEERFactory MES is a collection of reusable components that are tailored to specific customer requirements. At PEER Group, we combine our experience in the semiconductor, solar, electronics, life sciences, and automotive manufacturing industries to bring to market best-of-breed functional modules that meet your manufacturing needs while achieving high levels of uptime and throughput.

PEERFactory MES Highlights

Features	Benefits
Scalability	Deploys to any environment, from small installations to large, high-volume environments and multi-sites
Flexibility	Customized and extended to provide a unique solution Configured to customer requirements according to your functionality needs, budget, and timelines
Supportability	Supported and maintained after factory deployment
Extensibility	Can be updated by both PEER Group and customer (customer-specific source code)
Connectivity	Provides multi-protocol support, including SECS/GEM, OPC, flat files, database, XML, Interface A, and custom protocols

PEERFactory MES Functionality

Features	Benefits
Scheduling	Enables push and pull scheduling modules
WIP Tracking	Provides real-time tracking of all in-process and completed units
Defect Tracking	Provides real-time tracking of product status, quality metrics, and pareto charts
Recipe Control	Tracks recipe to unit, pushes product-specific recipes to the tools
Genealogy Management	Tracks all operations and all consumed materials
Alert Manager	Alerts for tool state, process variables, and buffer queues
Business System Adapter	Connects seamlessly to other systems such as ERP, SCM, and MES
Reporting & Visualization	Provides historical and real-time reports, dashboards

About PEERFactory

PEER Group’s PEERFactory is a toolkit of comprehensive integrated software modules that provides tailored, high-performance manufacturing operation solutions proven to meet specific customer needs for plant visibility, data collection, and line monitoring and control. PEERFactory combines the strengths of both enterprise and SCADA/HMI MES products while minimizing associated risks and costs. PEERFactory’s Data Collection, MES, Asset Management, and APC modules feature high-performance storage and retrieval, flexible and scalable deployment, interoperability, and visualization.

Product Map

Tool kit and services for building automation solutions