Manufacturing execution management sophistication Offering : Fujitsu Global

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Digitally centralize manufacturing information (5M) to help improve quality, delivery dates, and costs

Fujitsu MES Solutions is a manufacturing site management system that not only connects the manufacturing networks of factories, headquarters, markets, and suppliers, but also centrally manages the fragmented information obtained from these connections and utilizes the information to other connections.

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In this photo, four people from Iida Sangyo Co., Ltd., a senior evangelist from Fujitsu Limited, and the SE in charge stand.

Iida Industry Co., Ltd.

Iida Industries Co., Ltd., which develops, manufactures, and sells soundproofing, damping, and sealing materials for automobiles, buildings, and railroads, introduced Fujitsu's COLMINA MES in 2018 to promote DX. By starting with the systemization of some operations and implementing a step-up implementation using an agile method, the number of man-hours required for inventory management was significantly reduced.
In the future, the production planning business will be systematized to visualize the shipment plan.

View Iida Industry case study

What is the Manufacturing execution management sophistication Offering?

In these uncertain times, manufacturing sites need to address a variety of issues by linking management and production activities, including issues such as a declining workforce and diversifying needs.Creating a data-driven manufacturing environment that enables the collection, analysis, and feedback of real-time onsite information from both inside and outside the company, and a company-wide PDCA cycle, leads to the advancement of the manufacturing site.Combining "standardized information," which is the basis for management decisions, with "real information" optimized for various forms of manufacturing, we support the realization of manufacturing sites that can keep up with changes.

What are the challenges you face in manufacturing execution management?

In addition to manufacturing information related to production, a variety of information is scattered around the manufacturing site, including information on workers, the site environment, and the location of people and goods.Simply collecting data recklessly is meaningless; it is important to link related information and transform it into valuable data.
Manufacturing sites are required to create systems that can respond immediately to change.

Manufacturing execution management sophistication Offering can be achieved

MES is defined by functions aimed at optimizing manufacturing operations, but the difficulty with MES is that the boundary between ERP and MES is blurred and variable, depending on organizational structure, requirements, and manufacturing processes.
In some cases, the ERP side of the MES covers areas close to manufacturing to a certain extent, and the rest is a field system that monitors progress based on actual results from the facilities. In other cases, the MES covers the planning layer, such as manufacturing planning and instruction management, while the ERP area only handles ordering.
In such a manufacturing site, there are areas where quality and business logic based on company-wide standards should be guaranteed as data and systems, and areas where speedy tracking of fluctuations and improvements should be made to support the manufacturing site.
Fujitsu defines MES by dividing it into two layers, "management MES" and "on-site MES,
Management of "standardized information" supporting the aggregation and analysis of information that forms the basis for management decisions,
Flexibly and smoothly fuse on-site MES information, which is "real information" optimized for various forms of manufacturing.

The MES is layered by "management MES" × "site MES".
Fujitsu's manufacturing environment that can keep up with changes

Management MES

Integrate with ERP information as a positioning of the sitr core system. Standardizing processes on a global basis and centrally managing 5M information, rapid management decisions can be made.

Integration of information related to manufacturing, both inside and outside the company
Making decisions visible across the company
Standardization of the manufacturing process

Site MES

Support "Site kaizen culture." Realize an environment where focus will be on manufacturing digitally. (Digital Working Standard)

Centralization of site information
Digitization of site information without burden
Flexibility to meet the needs of manufacturing sites

Achieve the customer's ideal image
Business x Offering Level x Solution

The offering combines Fujitsu's expertise and know-how with the manufacturing DX theme that customers would like to realize and four offering scenarios to propose optimal solutions for promoting DX.
Please feel free to consult us as consider the introduction utilizing existing system infrastructure can be done.