{"id":131061,"date":"2025-06-02T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/?p=131061"},"modified":"2025-06-05T05:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:16:32","slug":"how-mes-is-changing-the-ways-manufacturers-operate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/how-mes-is-changing-the-ways-manufacturers-operate\/","title":{"rendered":"How MES is changing the ways manufacturers operate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Control Engineering | Andrew Robling | Epicor Interview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YkCEzyGgoBY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A new generation of engineers and skilled trades people are always taking on brand-new jobs. And the jobs themselves keep evolving as tasks become automated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/picking-the-right-mes-or-automation-solution-for-a-life-sciences-application\/\">Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)<\/a> are shifting the ways in which workers approach their jobs. These systems offer a view of the factory floor, including insights into equipment performance. It also collects data, which is important for recreating processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Robling, principal marketing manager with Epicor, has seen the evolution of manufacturing, from manual processes to automated ones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robling started his career while he was still in college, working at a plastic injection molding plant that served the automotive industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I was going to college and doing my job at the plastic injection molding plant, there was very little guidance,\u201d Robling told Control Engineering in an exclusive interview. \u201cThere might\u2019ve been some kind of an instruction that was on a piece of paper. I might have glanced at it occasionally to remind myself of the steps that I needed to do to learn my job, but that might\u2019ve been back in the office. I might have had that. There\u2019s times where I kind of felt lost out on the shop floor about that next thing I needed to do, so tools like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicor.com\/en-us\/products\/manufacturing-execution-software-mes\/advanced-mes\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=paidsearch&amp;utm_term=epicor%20mes&amp;utm_campaign=701Ub000003GOZCIA4&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=20305134178&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADvFnwa-rhjUpVUNIEVlTma3NL37v&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwruXBBhArEiwACBRtHaQatqGKANJ_wau76aPU4EMDnrjvYFDvsuu4NQ1RaBrszpS-mvXNQhoCSn8QAvD_BwE\">Epicor Connected Process Control<\/a>, I think, are very helpful. They have this aspect of a guided visual digital operating instruction that would force me to go through the different tasks that I needed to do to produce a quality part.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MES-System-in-training-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy: WTWH Media\" class=\"wp-image-131062\" style=\"width:645px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MES-System-in-training-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MES-System-in-training-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MES-System-in-training-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MES-System-in-training-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MES-System-in-training.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy: WTWH Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MES and its role in training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Robling noted that there\u2019s a skill gap in manufacturing. But MES can close that gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not only difficult to find workers in the trades. It\u2019s tough to retain them once you\u2019ve hired them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know there\u2019s not a worse feeling than doing a job and not really knowing what you\u2019re supposed to do,\u201d Robling said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people might even give up and look for other jobs if they can\u2019t easily figure out how to complete tasks and learn how equipment works on the factory floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaybe you don\u2019t have clear instructions on what you need to do, and you kind of feel bad having to go ask your supervisor again because you don\u2019t want to look stupid,\u201d Robling said. \u201cSo, you try and figure things out on your own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connected Process Control can walk workers through a process step-by-step, no supervisor needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MES\u2019s functionality beyond training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The data gathered by MES can certainly help new employees learn their jobs faster and better. But it can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/how-to-leverage-ai-to-improve-manufacturing-operations\/\">be used to get ahead of problems<\/a> \u2013  like waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a repository,\u201d Robling said. \u201cIt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/improve-decision-making-with-the-right-data-to-optimize-operations\/\">capturing all the data<\/a> of what\u2019s happening in your business, whether that\u2019s somebody receiving goods or it\u2019s the information that\u2019s been captured from the machine. The downtime, the scrap values that\u2019s happening. I think there\u2019s a lot of really cool things you\u2019re going to be able to do with stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those things are reducing waste. Process parameters were previously set by humans who would determine the ideal temperature or pressures to produce a quality part or product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now machines can do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re capturing all of that data, we\u2019ve got all the good pieces being produced, we know the process parameters at the time a part was scrapped,\u201d Robling said. \u201cThey can now start making those suggestions as far as [for example], \u2018Hey, your scrap percentage is 5% higher when your process parameters are within these limits,\u2019 and now you can start making decisions on, \u2018Okay, maybe I want to tighten that up so when, let\u2019s say, it\u2019s a temperature measuring outside of a threshold, your system automatically alerts you and maybe automatically scraps that part so it doesn\u2019t make it further down the chain, and people aren\u2019t wasting their time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means customers aren\u2019t ending up with subpar parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no value to you getting customers that are upset with you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new generation of engineers and skilled trades people are always taking on brand-new jobs. 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