ISG helps an automotive OEM to assess the MES market and recommend MES solutions to position it for a digital factory transformation.
An automotive industry original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is a leader in innovative thermal and energy management solutions. It had just completed its evaluation and selection of market-leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to consolidate from multiple ERPs down to one global ERP. Next it wanted to evaluate the market for the latest in manufacturing execution system (MES) solutions to position it for digital factory transformation across its 30 plants in China, Asia Pacific, Africa, Americas and Europe.
The manufacturer was interested in replacing its internally-built, legacy MES to achieve significant productivity improvements, enable its digital transformation and perform critical integration into its new ERP solution and plant floor operations technology.
ISG captured and reviewed the requirements from the company’s existing MES across production management, customer requirements, equipment management and reporting and monitoring. We also incorporated future-state requirements for enterprise application integration (EAI) availability, PLC (programmable logic controller) communications, analysis and machine learning, big data processing, mobility and cloud.
ISG leveraged its existing knowledge of the MES solutions and system integrators along with market research covering 70-plus solutions and system integrator interactions to recommend six MES solutions for more detailed evaluation by the company. ISG defined the weighting and criteria for evaluating the MES solution finalist against its requirements.