Siemens - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Siemens SIMATIC IT manufacturing execution systems for optimum market responsiveness software. In order to secure profits and increase business efficiency it is important to implement the right technological enablers to achieve optimum market responsiveness.

SIMATIC IT is the Siemens manufacturing execution system portfolio. It handles production management and offers interoperability between plant and ERP, research and development, quality, PLM and other business systems. This mutual data exchange aligns manufacturing processes with business processes, thus supporting supply chain management and enhancing brand value.

SIMATIC IT PRODUCTION SUITE

The SIMATIC IT Production Suite enables production management and execution, offering real-time capabilities to drive performance. SIMATIC IT Production Modeler takes care of production process modelling, defining and visualising the plant model and production operations as well as operating procedures.

Additionally, there are the SIMATIC IT components, offering functionality to cover the defined production operations. SIMATIC IT offers product definition management, production order management, material management, plant performance analysis, Key Performance Indicators (KPI) calculation, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), reporting, scheduling, Laboratory Information Management (LIMS), quality assurance, and product specification management.

SIMATIC IT INTELLIGENCE SUITE

Offering real-time data monitoring and historical data collection for cross-plant visibility, SIMATIC IT Intelligence Suite provides the production software platform for plant and business intelligence.

The Intelligence Suite manages real-time data acquisition for production process data and quality data. It supports data analysis by calculating key performance indicators on real-time data. This production analysis enables statistical process control, performance management and asset management. Due to the tight integration with MES functionality this ultimately results in process improvements, yield growth and scrap reductions.

In view of the current global manufacturing environment, SIMATIC IT Intelligence Suite can put process and quality data in relation to business data. This contextualization enables multi-site benchmarking between different production plants and provides management information for better decision support.

SIMATIC IT R&D SUITE

SIMATIC IT R&D Suite is the Siemens software offering to cover all research and development processes. It is based on the modeler and components concept, including functionality such as electronic notebooks, laboratory management and specification management.

These cover typical R&D activities such as project management, formula and packaging development, trial and experiment management, and production process design. It also includes functionality for batch and inventory management and pilot plant.

SIMATIC IT R&D Suite offers data management for all research data. It enables data capture which follows a flexible data structure and respects data integrity rules and access rights. This facilitates intellectual property rights and patent application.

The integration of design, quality, MES and ERP helps enforce industry standards, regulations and standard operating procedures and speeds up the transfer from R&D to manufacturing and thus the time-to-market.

LOWER TCO AND FASTER ROI

To increase profitability by limiting the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and accelerating the Return On Investment (ROI), Siemens offers the SIMATIC IT libraries concept.

A SIMATIC IT library is a kind of ‘plug and play’ package addressing industry specific MES issues such as Hazardous Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP), weighing and dispensing, genealogy, in-process-testing, Statistical Process Control (SPC), RFID technology, traceability, material management, lean manufacturing and Just In Time (JIT) manufacturing. SIMATIC IT also offers stand-alone components and product options to address specific requirements:

• SIMATIC IT Unilab: Laboratory Information Management (LIMS)
• SIMATIC IT Historian Process and Production Data Management (PPDM)
• SIMATIC IT:Interspec product specification management
• SIMATIC IT XHQ: Data warehouse for operational intelligence
• SIMATIC IT Predictive detailed scheduler interactive: 'what if' simulation for intelligent decision support
• SIMATIC IT SPC: Statistical process/quality control – statistical analysis of product and process quality data
• SIMATIC IT OEE/DTM: equipment effectiveness and down-time monitoring