Ep 29 Manufacturing Execution Systems for Data-Driven Manufacturing - Kevin Jones, CEO Ectobox

Gaining competitive advantage is the main driver of innovation in nature as much as it is in technology. And the manufacturing ecosystem is no different.
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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

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