The implementation of an MES solution for the integrated management of factory production represents a strategic decision that requires the direct involvement of the general management given its impact on the policies and procedures that govern the company. Given the breadth of problems that MES systems solve, it is difficult to find a factory department that will not be affected once the decision to implement it has been made. It is this transversality that confers and determines it as a unified factory strategy.

 Today we find an infinite number of plants managed with different systems, built to solve specific problems, generally of specific departments. In many cases, incompatible systems that present disparate information on variables and operations that should be common. This makes it very difficult to have visibility of factory operations. We spend a lot of time collecting and building information to make decisions, and once we make them, we don’t have the right tools to establish continuous improvement strategies.