Simatic IT

Simatic IT Framework

MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) SIMATIC IT

Drive Excellence into the Manufacturing Enterprise
Increasing competitiveness is today a must for manufacturing companies.

MES is the key element to guarantee the integration of all components, ensuring optimal quality and production efficiency across all global facilities. Siemens was one of the first to understand the challenges facing manufacturing industries, offering SIMATIC IT as a solution.

SIMATIC IT brings Excellence to the Manufacturing Enterprise:

  • Interoperability with Business Level
  • Visibility for fast decision making
  • Time-to-Market support
  • Total Quality Management
  • Full flexibility in production
  • Complete integration with the Supply Chain
  • A complete solution for Plant Operations

SIMATIC IT Value Proposition

The continuous pressure in manufacturing requires companies to change their structure and move to a more agile supply chain management. To fulfill the market demand, still keeping necessary margins and continuously growing quality benchmarks, the capacity is required to reconfigure on-line the supply chain, still orchestrating all the operations in the plant and keeping the right visibility. The right synchronization originates from the collaboration of all the IT levels and MES (Manufacturing Execution System) is a key actor in this play, as it owns the manufacturing workflows where decisions mostly affect profitability.

Today the pressure for manufacturers is coming from different factors and in particular the increased competition, the shorter product lifecycle and the increasing demands of regulatory bodies. This naturally impacts on every aspect of a company, in every business process, including production operations that represent the activity at the plant level. From this perspective production operations are not only a way of linking shop floor with business level, but become an integral part of the entire corporate business processes.

Therefore in the continuously growing complexity of manufacturing environment, MES is no longer only providing systemization of best practice but has to guarantee seamless collaboration with the Supply Chain, with positive ROI (Return on Investment) and low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).

Originally the goal of the plant activities was to fulfill specific targets with a positive and quick ROI without any involvement with the corporate level. This causes solutions at the plant level to grow complex, with no integration and limited standardization. Today this segregation is no longer possible. Plant IT solutions, basically MES in a wider and more comprehensive scope, must coordinate and synchronize all the activities related to production. But this is not enough. Plant IT must become a real and efficient element of the Supply Chain.

Collaborating with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Sales, CRM (Customer Relationship Management), PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), Finance, Maintenance, Logistic, QA (Quality Assurance) and all the other actors that provide functions to fulfill the corporate business processes. Strategies like make-to-order require tight cooperation between different processes and the outcome is that since every individual functionality has to efficiently cooperate, the technology infrastructure can no longer defined independently from plant and enterprise, but a strong synergy is required.

  • SIMATIC IT Production Suite is the pure plant-centric solution, covering the ISA-95 issue.
  • SIMATIC IT Intelligence Suite is the solution for manufacturing visibility. It transforms data into knowledge and supports fast decision making at every level in the enterprise.
  • SIMATIC IT R&D Suite is the solution for integrating product specification and execution, integrating product and process design.

SIMATIC IT for Industry

Siemens has over the past one and a half years implemented an elaborated strategy based on three pillars: Product Differentiation, Whole Product through Partnerships and Focus. As a result of the focus pillar of the strategy, several so called industry initiatives have been developed and implemented over the past year. They cover various segments from the Food & Beverage, Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals to the Discrete industries and allow Siemens to address the market with a solution tailored to the specific customer' needs, thereby offering maximum value. The systematic approach to various industries allows Siemens and partners to confirm its market leadership and expertise in Manufacturing Execution Systems, industry per industry.

 

Mdf - Mes development framework

Mdf - Mes development framework

Mdf - MES Development Framework born after an experience in MES Development with standard development tools like Visual Studio .NET 2005. We were unsatisfied from the available tools nowadays, so we are looking for a methodology that can help you to write robust industrial solution compliant to ISA-95 standards.

Download the Mdf latest version here.