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If you had to build your manufacturing execution platform from scratch today, unconstrained by what you inherited, what would you build?
If you had to build your manufacturing execution platform from scratch today, unconstrained by what you inherited, what would you build?
Moving away from SAP ME isn’t just a software upgrade. Discover the hidden architecture, custom code, and dependencies that make migration complex.
SAP has confirmed that mainstream maintenance for ME and MII ends in December 2027. Extended support, at a premium, runs until 2030. There is no upgrade path to SAP Digital Manufacturing. The transition is a full reimplementation on a new platform, regardless of destination. You cannot plan a reimplementation of something you cannot inventory.
You can vibe code an app. The question is whether you can (or should) vibe code a full MES, and the answer has less to do with how good the code generator is than with what an MES actually is.
New fabs and innovation centers are being announced across every major region and the pressure to move from experiment to production is intensifying. Yet for many semiconductor R&D labs and emerging fabs, the systems meant to support that transition are working against it.
The recently published eBook Industry 4.0 and AI: What You Can Learn from the Leaders paints a revealing picture of where manufacturing stands today. Progress is real, investment is flowing, and ambition is high.
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are foundational to modern high-tech manufacturing. For manufacturers operating in domains supported by Critical Manufacturing MES, including semiconductors, electronics, medical devices, and industrial equipment, implementation is not simply an IT rollout.
Most leadership teams spend their days improving today’s output and planning the next round of investments. Necessary priorities, yet increasingly insufficient. The real competitive battle is shifting somewhere far less visible: toward the factories that are quietly learning every single day and those that are not.
The manufacturing floor is undergoing a digital revolution, and at the forefront of this change is the emergence of AI Copilots.
