FRAME AN MES PROJECT TO GUARANTEE MANUFACTURING OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Our client asked SPC to help in the planning phase and also in making choices, where the challenges were initially to confirm that there was the possibility of an MES approach including the implementation of Electronic Batch Record (EBR) and then to define an MES system integrated in a complex production environment.

The challenge could not be addressed without bringing significant complementary business expertise to the IT dimension of the project.

This complementary expertise in the SPC teams enabled the production management principles to be questioned and reviewed, notably those linked to the dividing up of production orders, the process equipment integration conditions to be measured relative to the Electronic Batch Record (EBR) approach and, of course, modeling the production recipes (Master Batch Recipes) to standardize and ultimately decrease the integration costs of the future MES project.

This study, covering all the production sectors, resulted in:

• Functional and applied data flow charts for the IS target with MES in a key position
• A model of the Master Batch Recipes made for each sector using a standardized approach guaranteeing the optimization of the implementation costs of the MES-EBR project
• A feasibility study on the connections of the different process equipment
• A detailed document evaluating all the MES solutions likely to address the client’s needs
• A well-defined implementation procedure including the setting up of a Core Model which was first tested on a pilot sector then deployed on the other sectors.

The comprehensiveness of the study results gave our client the ability to organize their project in the best possible way, notably by:

• Dimensioning the project team in a meaningful way (in particular, the business actors)
• Giving a firm commitment to the chosen company integrating the MES solution for a carefully-planned project over a clearly-defined zone.