MPDV Mikrolab (Germany)

Employees are an important, perhaps the ‘most important resource’ in a manufacturing company. Personnel capacities in production must be flexibly planned and deployed in accordance with the workload and employee qualifications. It is of little use scheduling production orders precisely to the minute when the operating personnel required are not available to start the order.

The drive towards more efficiency and quality as well as the price pressure arising from global competition are increasingly forcing manufacturing companies to optimize production and improve their procedures. The highest aim of a manufacturing company has not for a long time been faultless delivery to the customer but rather production in which no errors arise in the first place. Potential quality defects should be prevented even before they occur and non-conforming parts should be ejected from production immediately they are discovered.

Informationsmanagement ist eine zentrale Aufgabe, die ein MES im Fertigungsumfeld und auch daruber hinaus bewaltigen muss. Zur Steigerung der Transparenz kann beispielsweise ein Manufacturing Cockpit Kennzahlen berechnen und fur unterschiedliche Unternehmensbereiche visualisieren. Dabei ist sowohl die Relevanz der jeweiligen Kennzahlen bzw. Auswertungen als auch eine gesicherte Datenherkunft von groser Bedeutung.