Articles & News on MES and Operations Management

Rockwell Automation and Battery Pioneer Cadenza Innovation to Explore Driving Energy Storage and Advance Sustainability

  • November 12, 2021
  • News

Collaboration would create a ​cloud-based, distributed, energy storage monitoring system, a full manufacturing execution system, and controls automation for a smart, connected factory of the future.
 

Schneider Electric Joins UniversalAutomation.org to Create New Era of Plug and Play Automation

  • November 11, 2021
  • News

Schneider Electric has joined other industrial leaders and pioneers to form UniversalAutomation.org, an independent, not-for-profit association managing the reference implementation of a shared source runtime. IT and OT software vendors, industrial end users, OEMs and academics will share a common automation software layer across their automation technology regardless of brand.  

APM 4.0: Transforming Decision Making about Plants and Assets with Role-Based Applications

  • by Mike Brooks
  • October 25, 2021
  • Feature

Reliability and process engineers need solutions that fit their needs for operational insight and asset management. The valuable skillset of data scientists must be complemented with engineering wisdom and AI applied within the business processes to create role-based applications that will eventually lead to the self-optimizing plant (SOP).

Tatsoft Integrates Canary Labs As Preferred Historian Solution

  • September 1, 2021
  • News

Tatsoft SCADA solutions leverages the Canary Historian for data storage with "out-of-the-box" integration.

Basin Water Resources Secures Water Reuse Plant Pilot Project for Gold Mining Operation

  • August 18, 2021
  • News

Basin Water Resources, LLC (BWR) was selected by a major international gold producer to supply a dual-train nanofiltration (NF)/reverse osmosis (RO) pilot system to evaluate various membrane performance characteristics.

Litmus and Cantier Partner to Offer Agile Smart Manufacturing Solutions with MES and IIoT 4.0 Platform

  • June 7, 2021
  • News

Cantier MES 4.0 and Litmus Edge are tightly integrated for shop floor digital transformation projects with rapid time-to-value.

Case Study: MES Solution Helps Aerospace Manufacturer Grow Exponentially

  • May 13, 2021
  • Case Study

Learn how ShopVue's MES solution helped this division of Parker Hannifin Aerospace manage human resources to improve profitability.

Discrete Manufacturers Discover Value in New MES/MOM Solutions

  • by Thomas R. Cutler
  • May 5, 2021
  • Feature

Jason Spera, CEO and co-founder, Aegis Software, recently shared his vantage of the changes for factory floor automation in 2021.

Honeywell Forge Named in Leaders' Quadrant of 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for MES

  • April 30, 2021
  • News

Honeywell announced that Honeywell Forge has been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

Case Study: How One Manufacturer Put Out the Fire on its Burning ERP Platform

  • by Sarah Nicastro
  • April 9, 2021
  • Case Study

C&C Power, Inc. identified that it was on a burning platform which was getting in the way of being able to make essential business changes. This is the story of how the company achieved a reduction in stock-outs by 25% thanks to real (not general) materials requirements planning (MRP) functionality, reduced the impact on processes associated with design changes after orders are released to manufacturing, and achieved faster order turn time and a hugely improved customer experience.