OpenMES
News, updates and guides from the OpenMES team.
If you run a manufacturing business, sooner or later you’ll hear two acronyms: ERP and MES. Every software vendor will promise theirs solves all your…
Read article →A plant manager once told me his proudest “innovation” was a whiteboard. Every shift, someone walked the line, scribbled downtime reasons in marker, and photographed…
Read article →Picture two identical factories. Same machines, same operators, same product mix. A year later, one of them produces 18% more, suffers fewer breakdowns, and ships…
Read article →Picture a production planner rebuilding tomorrow’s schedule in a spreadsheet every morning. Twenty machines, a hundred orders, customer deadlines, breakdowns, material shortages, and priorities that…
Read article →The phone rings at 7:30 a.m. A customer reports a defective batch – something is wrong with the material. The first question sounds simple: “Which…
Read article →Every minute of unplanned downtime on the shop floor is pure cash leaking out, something you cannot afford in an era of drastically rising operating…
Read article →The Industry 4.0 model is becoming the standard in modern manufacturing plants around the world. It is a shift that is revolutionising how production is…
Read article →Free Is a Fair Price For over a decade I’ve been building software – websites, mobile apps, custom systems tailored to specific needs. I spent…
Read article →Picture a manufacturing plant where finance keeps chasing production for order status, production keeps chasing maintenance for machine availability, and the warehouse only finds out…
Read article →When a manufacturing plant sees its real OEE for the first time – not the one from the shift supervisor’s spreadsheet, but the one built…
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