Modeling and integrating MES with other systems is challenging enough when your factory manufactures one type of product with similar flows. But what if your MES implementation includes a variety of manufacturing modes, product types, volumes, and varying degrees of automation? What if your industry is regulated? What if your task is to implement all this variety in a single MES instance? Ultradent is currently implementing MES, beginning with Electronic Batch Record across a variety of production lines in their Utah manufacturing location.
Watch this webinar to hear Craig Pinegar discuss the challenges of selecting and implementing MES in an extremely vertically-integrated MedTech environment, including:
- Selecting a commercial MES
- Goals, scoping, and success metrics of MES implementation
- Big Bang vs. phased implementation
- Selecting suitable project methodologies
- Pros and cons of “Paper on Glass”
- Security and availability concerns of paperless manufacturing
- Integrating MES with PLM, ERP, and more
- Automation vs. manual processes
- How to bootstrap and develop an MES team
- How to scale from your pilot lines to your entire plant
- How Lean and MES support each other
- How to approach software validation with MES
