MES is a collection of tools borderline between Production Control, often far away of floor operations and Technical Supervision limited to equipment operations.
Full integrated to CIM pyramid (Computer Integrated Manufacturing), MES supplies the lowest level essentials functions for reactive monitoring of floor operations.

This representation put in evidence two types of time:
> Differed time related to management
> Real time related to Production

And a monitoring loop constituted by upstream informations and downstream decisions that get down operations.

 

BI : Business Intelligence
ERP : Enterprise Resources Planning

Information Systems

MES in the heart of Information System