New MES For Discrete Manufacturing

April 4, 2007
Oracle announces new manufacturing execution system.

Oracle MES for Discrete Manufacturing, the newest release from Oracle, allows manufacturers to deploy Oracle Applications directly on the shop floor. The new solutions give companies with low-to-medium complexity environments increased shop floor visibility, and the ability to reduce manual activities.

In the new solution shop floor supervisors have a single launching pad to view key performance indicators as well as detailed shop floor status, and can monitor resource loads and rearrange production schedules as required. This latest release also equips manufacturers with new workbench capabilities to allow shop floor personnel to efficiently and effectively execute, record and monitor activities.

In the Supervisor Workbench function of the software supervisors can assign alternative resources and anticipate capacity resource shortages for proactive staffing changes.

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