Modern manufacturing execution systems (MES) can deliver the flexibility to enable manufacturers to define the solutions that meet their strategic needs. MES is what you make it: Define the MES functions needed, use standards, consider modularity, and integrate controls with MES and MES with enterprise resource planning (ERP),as needed. Strategic enterprise integration has been in the making for the past two decades. While much of the technology to accomplish this integration is available, the number of companies actually claiming to have achieved any grand integration is few.

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