What Is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)?
A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) helps businesses ensure that their manufacturing operations and production output are working to maximum efficiency. It’s a software system that connects, monitors, and controls machines, work centers, and data flows on the factory floor. The MES does this by tracking and gathering real-time data throughout the production lifecycle and on every piece of equipment involved in the production process—from order to delivery.
An MES provides businesses with data on product tracking and genealogy, performance, traceability, management, work in progress (WIP), and other plant activities throughout the production cycle. This information provides decision makers with detailed insight on how to optimize their operations. In this eBook, we’re going to take a look at:
- What Does a Manufacturing Execution System Do?
- Manufacturing Execution System Architecture
- What are the Benefits of Using a Manufacturing Execution System?
Complete the form to download the What Is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)? eBook now!
Plex Quality Management System (QMS)
When manual processes and homegrown systems fall short, Plex Quality Management System (QMS) can help you take the guesswork out of quality management and error-proof your production operation. Plex QMS offers manufacturers increased quality visibility and real-time data capture to help ensure repeatability, predictability, and compliance management.
Plex QMS makes it possible to digitally manage quality with accurate, real-time quality content aligned to industry and product requirements. And you gain increased operational excellence.
Complete the form to download the Plex Quality Management System (QMS) Brochure now!
Realizing Digital Value: Three Opportunity Areas for OEMs
Success as an OEM has always hinged on the ability to design and deploy machines in ways that yield rapid time to value, no matter the challenges that may be involved.
Industry challenges, both perennial and new, are likely here to stay.
What’s different now is the technology landscape and opportunities it presents for OEMs to not only maximize efficiency from within, but also to differentiate themselves and strengthen their position in the marketplace.
Pentesting Re-defined
Let’s say you find a SQL database directly accessible from the internet. It’s the same story all over. There’s really no reason you should have this sort of system directly on the internet. There are much more secure ways to make this system available.
So why do we want to waste time as a tester to try and hack something we already know is insecure and why does the security manager need to pay more for this effort? The only real value is that you use this information to prove to other managers that this access needs to be shut down. So my argument here is that, once you find something that point blank doesn’t belong on the internet, your efforts as a company should be to put resources towards fixing the problem rather than proving that it’s a problem in the first place. It’s a waste of effort at this point.
How Often to Perform Pentesting
IT Leadership is beginning to realize that one Pentest a year is not enough. What happens if an engineer makes a configuration mistake exposing your systems environment one week after your Pentest has been completed? You are basically exposed for a whole year if your vulnerability scans do not detect the issue.
Pentesting as a service is currently offered by a number of companies in this automated fashion. It’s only a matter of time before industry leaders start taking advantage of these technologies. Unfortunately, many organizations only implement the tools required for compliance, but those organizations who are serious about data security will gravitate towards these sorts of technologies that make your security program more effective.
Customer Experience Session – Compact Guard Logix
Safety has always been a top priority in many applications for multiple industries. Have you ever wondered how safety architecture can play a major role in your application?
Join our guest speakers from Aagard and AIDA to explore how scalable safety control can help your applications achieve higher performance, increased capacity, improved productivity, and enhanced security.
Join this webinar to learn:
- The safety solutions offered by Rockwell Automation.
- How to deploy a Compact GuardLogix® 5380 safety architecture.
- Discover how scalable safety provides a lower cost of ownership.
Faces of Logix with Blake Moret
Blake Moret, Chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation, talks about Logix as a cornerstone of the Factory of the Future.
Logix At The Heart
Most people come into contact with something that has been produced using a Logix controller every day: The car you drive to work, the bottled water you drink at your desk, the dressing you use on your dinner salad, the airport shuttle you use to catch your flight, the package you receive from Amazon. Logix is more than hardware ... it's at the heart of our lives, manufacturing your future.
ODVA Video on Integrated Safety
ODVA is a standards development organization and membership association whose members comprise the world’s leading industrial automation companies. ODVA works to advance open, interoperable information and communication technologies in industrial automation.
Start Your Smart Safety Journey
Smarter machines allow smarter manufacturing. An integrated Smart Safety solution provides all the data needed to create a comprehensive picture of the status of the machine or production line.
Smart manufacturing helps you: monitor machine health, increase uptime, improve manufacturing agility, increase safety and productivity and lower total cost of ownership.
Digital transformation acceleration is driving the demand for smart safety solutions, which are now an essential component of a manufacturer’s and processor’s operational resilience strategy, and a key enabler of achieving the productivity required to thrive in this new normal.
To meet this demand, Rockwell Automation has further enhanced its broad portfolio of smart safety solutions.
Safety and Risk Management in the Age of IIoT
The research presented in this eBook sheds new light on the business value of safety. It shows a clear association between the adoption of safety and risk management best practices and operational benefits. Key topics include:
- Business drivers and strategic objectives of safety initiatives.
- Adoption rates of safety and risk management people, process and technology capabilities in industrial organizations.
- Safety and risk best practices most associated with operational benefits.
- Action steps to help EHS business leaders communicate the strategic value of safety initiatives.
Pentesting Re-defined
Let’s say you find a SQL database directly accessible from the internet. It’s the same story all over. There’s really no reason you should have this sort of system directly on the internet. There are much more secure ways to make this system available.
So why do we want to waste time as a tester to try and hack something we already know is insecure and why does the security manager need to pay more for this effort? The only real value is that you use this information to prove to other managers that this access needs to be shut down. So my argument here is that, once you find something that point blank doesn’t belong on the internet, your efforts as a company should be to put resources towards fixing the problem rather than proving that it’s a problem in the first place. It’s a waste of effort at this point.
How Often to Perform Pentesting
IT Leadership is beginning to realize that one Pentest a year is not enough. What happens if an engineer makes a configuration mistake exposing your systems environment one week after your Pentest has been completed? You are basically exposed for a whole year if your vulnerability scans do not detect the issue.
Pentesting as a service is currently offered by a number of companies in this automated fashion. It’s only a matter of time before industry leaders start taking advantage of these technologies. Unfortunately, many organizations only implement the tools required for compliance, but those organizations who are serious about data security will gravitate towards these sorts of technologies that make your security program more effective.
Customer Experience Session – Compact Guard Logix
Safety has always been a top priority in many applications for multiple industries. Have you ever wondered how safety architecture can play a major role in your application?
Join our guest speakers from Aagard and AIDA to explore how scalable safety control can help your applications achieve higher performance, increased capacity, improved productivity, and enhanced security.
Join this webinar to learn:
- The safety solutions offered by Rockwell Automation.
- How to deploy a Compact GuardLogix® 5380 safety architecture.
- Discover how scalable safety provides a lower cost of ownership.
Faces of Logix with Blake Moret
Blake Moret, Chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation, talks about Logix as a cornerstone of the Factory of the Future.