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Manufacturing Execution Systems Questions

Scheduling Assistance

QDear Alison Smith, Does MES help with scheduling or do I need to have a scheduling package to complement the MES package?

ROI Revisited

QDear Alison, I was going through a few of your answers when I came across these figures you had used to answer a question posed to you..... [From the previous post:] You wrote: ?The aggregated data I'm sharing here is from AMR ROI studies, but if you l`ook to the MESA organization, you'll probably find data that's of like magnitude.
  • 3-7% increase in yields due to reductions in scrap, material savings ranging from $150,000 to $3 million annually on discarded products. Reduction in process defects of 20%
  • E-signature tracking, headcount reduction, 25-75% reduction in signature review times, 30-55% reduction in rate of exception handling (closure)
  • 58% reduction in idle time, 8-18% increase in productivity, 15-50% decrease in cycle time, 20% reduction in unnecessary equipment changeovers, reduced reporting latency from days to hours, daily to shift
  • Reduction in finished goods inventories, product holds, 20-50% reductions in WIP, monthly inventory adjustments eliminated
  • Improved inventory counts, number of exceptions, time-to-manage exception, batch reviews, data entry into ERP, unnecessary equipment changeovers, eliminates millions of entries and checks/year. Save 70,000 hours/year on batch reviews, 93% reduction in time-to-handle exceptions, reductions in G&A overhead of up to 90%? Can you please tell me what size of organisation are we talking about? And can you tell me how these figures fare with respect to a small scale, middle scale, and a large scale organisation? Timothy Rozario, Software Consultant, Frontal Software

Obscure MES Package

QAny information about this MES package called Forcam? Please let me know
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Alison Smith

Senior Research Analyst, AMR Research Inc.

Over her 25-year career, Alison has developed, installed, and supported supervisory control and manufacturing execution systems in a number of Fortune 500 manufacturing environments.
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