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shantanu apte

Any links that explain what MES is about and its interlinking with ERP and other related aspects ?
 
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While trying to learn about MES and ERP, how my SCADA software can link to it, and how SCADA software interacts with it, I found the
following:

"www.mesa.org":www.mesa.org - MES Association, wealth of info but requires your contact info to access. I got 4 calls from member vendors the following
week.

"http://www.qualitydigest.com/aug99/html/body_mes.html":http://www.qualitydigest.com/aug99/html/body_mes.html - a good paper with a graphic showing ERP/MES/Control functions and interactions

"www.erpfans.com":www.erpfans.com - not a lot of info, but lots of links to ERP companies and a pie chart of ERP vendors' market shares (follow the ERP Info
link).

I discovered there is a LOT of functional overlap between ERP and MES and between MES and SCADA. A white paper at the mesa.org site
explains the history of these softwares and why some of the overlap exists (white paper number 5).

It looks like exciting stuff. I am hoping to work on an integrated system in a few years that would allow the SCADA software to use data
from the MES as process interlocks. For example, the SCADA could check maintenance records, calibration schedules, and operator training
records before allowing the process to proceed.

Have fun,

Chip Hinde
Los Alamos National Laboratory
 
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Diana C. Bouchard

The web site of MESA International ("http://www.mesa.org":http://www.mesa.org) contains a variety of resources including a book list, conference information, etc. They used to have a set of white papers available for download, but I can't find them, maybe you have to ask for them now.

Diana Bouchard

 
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Yes.

ARC has an excellent set of links on their website.
MESA is the official MES website.
Interwave Technology has good content.
There is also "eBusiness in Manufacturing: Putting the Internet to Work in the Industrial Enterprise" by Shari Worthington and Walt Boyes, published this month by ISA Press, and available at www.isa.org. This book has several sections about MES and ebusiness enablement of the extended
enterprise.

Walt Boyes

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Bouchard, James [CPCCA]

>It looks like exciting stuff. I am hoping to work on an integrated system in a few years that would allow the SCADA software to use data from the MES as process interlocks. For example, the SCADA could check maintenance records, calibration schedules, and operator training
records before allowing the process to proceed."

Actually it is the other way around the MES is designed to do the checking an then tell the SCADA system what to do and then documenting what
it did. And if you have ERP and other systems the MES is there to make the links between them and the shop floor systems like SCADA

James Bouchard
Johnson & Johnson Products
 
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