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What if you could be everywhere in your plant at once? What if you could see exactly when a machine was about to break down, know at once that a customer drawing was obsolete or predict the exact moment when you would run out of a key material? What if you could peer into every process in your plant and know within seconds whenever an out-oftolerance condition was occurring?
One type of software program is designed to help you feel as if you had that type of control over your production floor. Manufacturing execution systems (MES) software, already well-established in process-manufacturing industries and...