Using Windchill Integration for MES
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) is the manufacturing system used for manufacturing. MES help manufacturing planners the current conditions on the plant floor how these conditions can be optimized to improve production output. These system helps in reducing production time and improve product quality, get more accurate costing and reduce the re-work and scrap rate.
Windchill Integration for MES is a product designed to leverage current standard Windchill ESI capabilities on the Windchill side, without using any third-party EAI software.
This uni-directional integration enables the publication of product information stored in Windchill PDMLink to distribution targets in In ESI and ISA95 B2MML format. Windchill Integration for MES enables the transfer and mapping of business objects, such as parts, Bills of Material (BOMs), manufacturing objects and resources, from Windchill to the distribution targets, and also serves as the foundation for more advanced transaction-managed integrations.
Connecting MES and Windchill systems optimizes and automates business processes, improves operational efficiencies, and creates opportunities to add value not available with isolated systems. By controlling seamless information flow between functional groups, such as engineering and manufacturing and their respective enterprise applications, it ensures that:
• Latest product data information is represented in both systems and changes to product data are automatically reflected in the distribution target.
• Latest design revisions are always available to manufacturing.
• There is a reduction in production time and an improved product quality, more accurate costing and reduced re-work and scrap rates.
Windchill Integration for MES can be customized manually to support unique business processes that are not provided in its default set of functions.