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Given today's environment with increasing global competition in terms of innovation, cost, time-to-market, and growing regulatory requirements, investing in an MES leaves no room for doubt.
Download White PaperGiven today's environment with increasing global competition in terms of innovation, cost, time-to-market, and growing regulatory requirements, investing in an MES leaves no room for doubt.
Download White PaperWhile costs have decreased by several orders of magnitude since the first MES systems were implemented, the investment required can still be significant. Therefore, it’s necessary to build a strong business case to justify a project.
“This is the start of a new digital future for Elekta. The payback on the MES is already coming from cost savings, increased efficiency, and easier compliance. We also benefit from freeing up resources to enable our business to innovate more and greater agility to respond to our customers’ demands.”
Mark Kaak VP Global Manufacturing Elekta Limited
MES benefits can be grouped in four categories: Quality, Productivity, Regulatory Compliance and Agility.
An improvement in performance indicators for each category will generate a benefit for which the value can be calculated with some degree of accuracy. All benefits are cumulative once the MES is implemented.
Benefits associated with yield and product performance improvement, which impact customer satisfaction.
Benefits associated with a higher output with the same resources, or the same output with less resources.
Benefits associated with mandatory compliance to country and/or industry regulations (such as FDA CFR Part 21 for medical devices in the USA).
Benefits associated with the time and cost to introduce new or modified products and processes.
For a reliable ROI exercise, the cost of the solution and any new or expanded infrastructure needs to be taken into consideration. For MES, this includes costs of the hardware, software, project and people.
Recurring cost (not incurred if hardware is not renewed at the end of depreciation period).
Cost incurred one time, during the project implementation.
Other licensing models are also available based on a monthly/yearly fee or pay per usage model.
Recurring annual cost, after project implementation.
Typically includes access to new software versions and product support.
Cost incurred one time, during the project implementation.
Typically, MES implementations evolve with a company’s growth, changing requirements and the need for additional capabilities over time. The majority of services and cost are associated with the MES introduction.
Cost incurred one time, during the project implementation.
Operational MES utilization is part of the daily job of the internal employees.
The availability of key users to support the MES Implementation project is essential.
