流程没理好，MES再贵都没用
别以为 MES 是万能药。流程没理好，系统只会加快混乱。
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我是一位正在真实工厂环境中推进 MES 系统上线的负责人。
从接手时几乎没有文档、没有流程定义、没有人交接——到现在逐步建立团队、参与系统选型与导入，我经历了非常多「一边做、一边学」的过程。
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Choosing the Final Two: Lessons from My MES Vendor Shortlisting
“By the time we reached the final two MES vendors, I wasn’t just comparing features.I was comparing philosophies — and how each one saw our factory.” Getting to the Final Two Wasn’t Just a Scorecard Exercise We started with a structured approach — using a weighted scorecard, evaluation checklist, and real-world use cases.But what truly
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Creating Confidence: Empowering Operators as Super Users
“Operators are the ones who use MES the most.So why do we treat them like afterthoughts during implementation?” Why Operator Confidence Matters A lot of MES projects focus on systems, specifications, and dashboards.But the reality on the shop floor is different. It’s the operators who: “Without their confidence, even the best MES logic will fail in practice.”
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Interviewing SMEs Who Don’t Know They’re SMEs
“I needed process knowledge.But the people who had it… didn’t think it was their job to share.” The Hidden Challenge in MES Requirements Gathering In MES implementation, we often talk about data, logic, and integration.But one of the hardest parts has nothing to do with systems — it’s about people. Specifically: “How do you interview
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How I Evaluated MES Functionality First (Before Price or Promises)
“Many vendors can talk the talk.I needed one that could walk the production floor — and show it.” Why Functionality Was My First Filter In the early stages of MES sourcing, it’s easy to get distracted: But after leading our pilot MES experience, I learned a hard truth:If the core functionality doesn’t fit your operations,
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Criteria I Set for Selecting the Right MES Vendor
“I wasn’t just looking for features.I was looking for fit — with our factory, our people, and our pace of change.” Why Clear Criteria Mattered When you’re sourcing an MES, the danger isn’t that you’ll find too few vendors —it’s that you’ll find too many, each promising to solve everything. At first, it was tempting
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Sourcing MES Vendors Under Pressure: Balancing Business Needs, Speed, and Fit
“When your current MES isn’t meeting expectations, but the factory can’t wait — sourcing becomes more than a selection process. It becomes a balancing act.” Why We Needed a New MES — Quickly Our current MES had been deployed as a pilot, and while it served many functions, we began to notice gaps as we
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From Zero to a Team: Building MES Capability from the Ground Up
“There was no MES department.No documentation.No handover.But we still had to deliver results — fast.” Starting from Scratch (Really) When I joined the company, there was no formal MES department.The previous staff had left. The system had been deployed, but much of the setup knowledge had walked out the door with them. What was left
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How to Gather MES Requirements from Scratch (When Nothing’s Defined)
“We didn’t have process owners.We didn’t have flow diagrams.We didn’t even know where to start.But the MES rollout had already begun.” The Reality: No Process Owners, No Documentation When I was tasked to define the MES requirements for our end to end production (From Subassembly to Final Packing), I wasn’t handed a neat document or
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