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Discrete manufacturing July 13, 2023
Broad Manufacturing Execution with a Composable Architecture

By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, the Gartner Magic Quadrant helps you quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner’s market view.

Electronics manufacturing November 10, 2022
Manufacturing Excellence with One MES Replacing 50+ Legacy Systems

Comprehensive coverage of Critical Manufacturing webinar with Vishay highlighting the strategy and approach towards replacing multiple legacy point solutions with a single MES across distinct and highly differentiated manufacturing sites located around the world.

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Discrete manufacturing October 27, 2022
Multisite MES Center of Excellence

Center of Excellence (CoE) carries out fundamental roles in a global MES implementation, enabling the coordination and alignment between MES implementations at all sites.

Discrete manufacturing September 22, 2022
Why manufacturers should refer to the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ while choosing their MES partner?

An MES is a foundation of digital transformation initiatives. Gartner Magic Quadrant can help manufacturers define their MES needs along with which products and solutions are best aligned to them.

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Electronics manufacturing November 4, 2021
The Overlap of Electronics and Medical Device Manufacturing

While there are clear areas of convergence in terms of end use and performance among some electronic wearables and medical devices, it is important for EMS providers to understand that when it comes to the manufacturing of health monitoring electronic devices, similar (or the same) regulations affect the way a manufacturing process is configured, documented and validated.

Electronics manufacturing May 31, 2021
MES beyond traceability for the Electronics industry

A modern MES is capable of providing manufacturers much more than traceability; in fact, the right MES data platform, which is IIoT enabled and has the capability of integrating with IT applications both from automation layer to the ERP/SCM/WMS layer, can act as the cornerstone to successfully answer market needs.

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Discrete manufacturing September 16, 2020
Open vs Closed MES

There is a lot of debate and discussion pertaining to the way a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) should function from an IIoT and Industry 4.0 perspective. The words ‘open’ vs. ‘closed’ application are also encountered in such debates; I will focus on the basic difference between an open and a closed MES, and which one is suited for the times to come.

Discrete manufacturing June 2, 2020
Make vs. Buy: 6 Reasons for Why You Shouldn’t Build Your Own Software

Whether it’s MES, Batch Recipe Management System, or EMI portal, they all are subjected to the “make versus buy” argument or sometimes, the “repurposing” of existing applications to make do. Let’s examine the reasoning.