Industrial Software Blog
Welcome to the industrial software blog. I’m going to use this blog as a site to review industrial software technology and manufacturing systems. I like doing this type of writing because it’s the type of technology that I work with every day. I build industrial applications and MES systems. MES stands for Manufacturing Execution System. Hopefully I’ll build something that will be of interest and I’ll share my experience. I also do a lot of reading about industrial systems and I’ll try to post some feed back on those as well.
Industrial software usually consists of systems that are used in shop floor reporting. These systems include the following types of applications. Quality Management, Production Performance Reporting, Supply Chain Management, Job tracking, Production Planning and Information Control or document management systems. I’ll try to do some posts on a wide variety of applications that are contained within these areas and I hope that you’ll find my blog to be a valuable resource. Please feel free to leave me some feedback and let me know what you think of the posts.
The work that I do in manufacturing is generally scheduling and production control systems. Things like OEE reporting. OEE stands for Overall Equipment effectiveness and it’s a calculation that includes performance, downtime and quality numbers that are used to calculate the OEE ratio. The reason that a lot of people like this measurement is that it can help balance the production line if used correctly. Sometimes if you focus on only one of the metrics you can lose control of the others. As an example if you focus too much on Downtime you can damage quality and the reverse can happen as well.
