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Use MES to Keep up with Change, Improve Yields and Output, Ensure Compliance

With accelerating innovation comes more rapid change into manufacturing, increasing variability and putting added pressure on operations to maintain high quality levels. Manufacturers using Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are ahead of the game, with proven ability to improve quality levels and reduce time to volume. MES users have achieved:

• More Rapid time to Volume
• Improved Yields
• Lower Operating Costs
• Increased Compliance

A robust Manufacturing Execution Software model supports a broad diversity of manufacturing industries and processes – the MES supports very complex process workflows, high volume automated data collection, mass customization, discrete assembly, batch process, rolled products and more. An MES with a configurable platform adapts to the users’ business without custom code, and has an open SOA architecture was designed for ease of integration to enterprise applications and shop floor automation.

Key capabilities to look for in your Manufacturing Execution System are: Product / WIP Traceability, Genealogy, Audit Trail
A Manufacturing Execution System provides the complete history of all manufactured lots, batches and serialized units, spanning production in multiple plants. Materials consumed, processes and equipment utilized, parametric data collected, exceptions, rework, dates and times, and electronic signatures are some of the details captured.

Process, Operator, Equipment, Materials Enforcement
The MES enforces the as-designed process, ensuring the right procedures, operators, equipment and materials are being used, at in the right sequence at the right time.

Quality Data Collection and Process Limits
Manufacturing Execution Software should be designed to easily integrate with shop floor equipment, collecting data, tracking results and alerting on process control limits and suspect trends.

Global Change (ECO) Enforcement and Audit Trail
A Manufacturing Execution System enforces engineering changes immediately or as specified by an effectivity date, ensuring that new processes are adhered to. Tracked data make it possible to understand the impact of ECOs and the effectivity of corrective and preventive actions.

Searchable Electronic Manufacturing Audit Trail
A Manufacturing Execution System includes a complete As-manufactured Audit Trail that is the basis for the complete electronic as-manufactured Device History Record, Batch Record or Lot History Record (eDHR, eBR, or eLHR). It is self-auditing and completely searchable, complies with regulations, and allows for rapid product release.

Forward, Backward Traceability and Correlation
Products, components and supplied materials are completely traceable in the MES, with “where used” analysis provided at the touch of a button.

Paperless Manufacturing
A Manufacturing Execution System replaces paper processes in today’s leading manufacturing environments. Dramatic reductions in errors and operating costs plus support for continuous improvement and lean initiatives are some of the most direct and measurable impacts.

Fast, Easy Operator Interaction
Manufacturing Execution Software gives operations and quality personnel simple forms from which to view instructions and record data and events. Browser-based user interfaces can be configured to effectively guide and respond to the way people work. The user interfaces will operate on equipment that is suitable to the environment. Data can be collected directly by the MES from process control systems and equipment, ensuring maximum speed, data volume and quality.

Automation Integration
For high-volume environments, a Manufacturing Execution System connects directly to control platforms such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and OLE for Process Control (OPC), SECS/GEM and LIMS. The MES OPC client simplifies Open Process Connectivity (OPC) via open standard by eliminating the need for custom coding.

Streamlined Validation
A Manufacturing Execution System should include Standard Validation Package is a powerful accelerator and cost reducer for Medical Device industry FDA-required computer systems validation. It makes it possible to evaluate the use of the MES in detail, and provides documented evidence that the system operates consistently in accordance with pre-defined specifications and requirements and is in compliance with Title 21 CFR Part 11.

Make sure your Manufacturing Execution System offers robust enterprise functionality, best practices and optimal configurability to ensure rapid deployment and ongoing success. 
 

Camstar provides the industry’s most robust Manufacturing Execution System, as well as the Process Design and Modeling capability to fully define the executable manufacturing process. Camstar’s MES is a key application in Camstar’s Enterprise Platform that Advances Product Quality by unifying collaborative design, planning, supply, manufacturing and customer experience through an enterprise closed-loop quality process to accelerate continuous improvement and continuous innovation.