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Manufacturing Execution Systems

About the Editor

Heiko Meyer has over 10 years of professional experience in developing software solutions for process and factory automation. He holds a master of science degree in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in computer science (modeling distributed systems) from the Technical University of Munich (Germany). At present he is head of the research and development department at Gefasoft AG. He has published over 30 papers and several books on the subject of industrial software solutions. He can be reached at heiko.meyer@gefasoft.de.

About the Contributing Authors

Franz Fuchs studied communications and electrical engineering at the University of Cooperative Education in Klagenfurt (Austria). He then worked on several projects relating to automation technology in the automotive industry. In 1984 he and two others founded Gefasoft AG (formerly GmbH). Since that time he has been a member of the executive board of Gefasoft and, among other duties, has been responsible for the basic concepts and designs of Gefasofts MES solutions. He can be reached at franz.fuchs@gefasoft.de.

During the last 40 years, Klaus Thiel has worked as a consultant and project manager for several companies involved in the optimization and rationalization of the manufacturing process. He holds a master of science degree in economics from the University of Munich (Germany). In 1977 he founded Partplan GmbH. The main focuses of this company were consulting in the manufacturing environment and the development of software-based human-machine interfaces. Since 2004 he has worked as an independent production management consultant. He can be reached at info@mes-consult.de.

Optimal Design, Planning, and Deployment

Heiko Meyer Editor

Franz Fuchs Contributing Author

Klaus Thiel Contributing Author

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This book is dedicated to my father
Dr. Karlhorst Meyer,
former professor in the Department of Mathematics,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
University of Florida, Gainesville

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When a general business concept becomes absorbed into the mainstream, it sometimes loses some of the sharpness associated with its original formulation. This is a charge that may be leveled with some justification against enterprise resource planning (ERP). On the one hand, an ERP system promisesby the force of its titleto link the entire enterprise together in a comprehensive resource plan. However, ERP systems in real life are far less ambitious. They are equivalent to software to automate a firms accounting and administrative systems. This narrowness of outlook has greatly hindered the vital overlap between a firms ERP system and the system governing the automation of its production planning and execution functions. The latter system is the firms manufacturing execution system (MES). The aim of the current book is to spell out in detail the design of an MES. Along the way, the tricky question of how the ERP system should interface with the MES is clearly answered.

This book is the clearest exposition I have seen of the ideal anatomy of a production-oriented IT system. The fundamentals of product mapping, operations sequence planning, and production control with material management, data management, maintenance management, and quality management are lucidly explained. The authors take great care to avoid clouding concepts with unnecessary jargon: every piece of terminology is carefully and precisely defined before it is put to use.