Thinking topics

"Industry 4.0", "factory of the future", "factory 4.0" and "smart factory" are just some of the terms used to refer to this new factory model born of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the successor to th...

What does OEE bring you? OEE (Overall Rate of Return) is certainly the best-know performance indicator in production.There are good reasons for this: with a moderate investment, it allows you to initi...

Often dedicated to the digitalization of factory operations, to the dispatching to the operator stations of the different tasks of the manufacturing orders from ERP and to the recording of permanence ...

Takt Time is a term of German origin that is generally associated with Lean Management and used in the industrial production sector. It designates the ideal duration of production of a good defined to...

With the avalanche of technologies that is now invading the industry in what is commonly called the Factory of the Future - 3D Printing, Cloud, Big data, AI, IoT, Virtual Reality, Digital Twin, etc. -...

The debate on the dividing line between ERP and MES, which indeed is variable depending on the processes and even the industrial’s choices, scarcely go beyond arbitrage duties on the management of uni...

Lean Manufacturing has become very popular in recent years, as a result of the initial success of its methods in the Japanese automotive industry and a climate of fiscal restraint, where the idea of “...

Starting with only a dozen or so in the early 1980s, programming languages have multiplied since then, now easily exceeding 100. There is abundant literature on the subject, which has earned its spot ...

Most integrators in our industry believe that integrating a batch engine results in higher costs in terms of licenses and development.

Also, unless the end user requests a "batch engine" or a "ISA-88 s...

Some customers ask themselves if ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and MES (Manufacturing Execution System) are playing the same role. They thus challenge the opportunity to install an MES system aft...

Opinions are very divided when it comes to clearly distinguishing between MES and MOM.

Some think that the MES is a subset of the MOM, while others are of the opinion that they describe different funct...

Born in the 1990s, the MES (manufacturing execution system) has gradually been adopted, somewhat like the ERPs that appeared in the previous decade. Put off by the budgets spent on ERPs, which they ha...