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In manufacturing, this manifests in the deployment of production automation systems on the shop floor, and enterprise planning systems on the top floor.

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But yet, there's a grey area in between that has, for the most part, remained underutilised or wrongly implemented altogether.

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This is where a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) would live.

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To understand how manufacturers can gain a competitive advantage by leveraging a Modern MES Architecture for data-driven manufacturing, I invited Kevin Jones for a podcast conversation.

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Kevin is the CEO and Lead Strategist at Ectobox, Inc., a Manufacturing Intelligence Solutions company and

Industry 4.0 systems integrator based in Pittsburgh, PA.

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Below is the outline of our conversation 

✅ Drivers for Data-Driven Manufacturing

✅ Introducing MES for Manufacturing

✅ Functions of Manufacturing Execution Systems

✅ Selecting and Implementing an MES System

✅ Modern Manufacturing Execution System Architecture

✅ Problems with Current Manufacturing Data Systems

✅ Unified Namespace for Manufacturing Execution System

✅ Brownfield Integration into Unified Namespace Architecture

✅ The Future of MES in Manufacturing