MES SOLUTION

Manufacturing execution system software

Adopt a smart manufacturing approach to achieve full visibility and traceability of your production. Optimize your manufacturing processes to ensure better production efficiency, sustainability and regulatory compliance, quality and safety.

Advance your manufacturing execution and operations

Managing and optimizing production processes is more challenging than ever as customers demand highly complex, sustainable and often customized products. They want them delivered faster, while still maintaining competitive pricing and premium quality.

You are required to adapt your production to address these requirements as well as disruptions, such as supply chain shortages. If you operate with manual processes and isolated systems — which reduce your visibility of production information — achieving such flexible manufacturing execution and operations becomes a daunting challenge that can severely set back your efficiency and profitability.

Reduce time-to-market by implementing integrated processes and communications and by eliminating manual entry. ( Deoleo)

Leverage a single source of data to improve accuracy and efficiency. ( Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery)

Eliminate paper-based, disjointed processes to ramp up production efficiency and lower production costs. ( Meccanotecnica Umbra S.p.A.)

How can you maximize your operational efficiency and continue delivering value to your customers and business?

Implement a manufacturing execution system (MES): a comprehensive solution that is aligned with your smart manufacturing principles and enables you to monitor and synchronize manufacturing activities across your plant(s). With MES software, you can gain complete control over your manufacturing processes in real time for more flexible, sustainable and informed production that is adaptive to the requirements you need to fulfill.

What does MES software do for you?

Use MES software to manage, monitor and control production processes across the shop floor. Get real-time information about production activities, resources and materials so you can make data-driven decisions and enhance the quality of your manufacturing operations.

Monitor

Provide complete visibility of every manufacturing site, plant, production line and supplier network, and control product quality and production efficiency, all in real time.

Orchestrate

Share production-critical information across your teams to orchestrate production floor operations and ensure that your resources move through production efficiently.

Track and trace

Stay up to date on product and order details, track production and trace product components while ensuring regulatory and quality compliance.

Optimize

Make informed decisions based on actionable performance data and real-time feedback to optimize your production processes and resolve issues.

Accelerate with Opcenter Execution, our MES software

Determine and implement the most efficient production sequencing. Track and trace the status of production and disposition of work. Enable rapid and real-time identification and resolution of manufacturing issues. Personalize your solution with low code embedded capabilities to maximize efficiency.

Production ​tracking

  • Achieve transparent production tracking.
  • Record actual manufacturing processes for work orders with real-time monitoring and reporting of production activities.
  • Provide stakeholders with up-to-date production status information, promptly identify plan deviations and guarantee traceability.

User ​experience

  • Achieve low-code-tailored user experience.
  • Experience unparalleled ease-of-use and flexibility of low-code development capabilities to rapidly create tailored and adaptable user interfaces.
  • Utilize pre-defined templates to achieve fast and efficient standardization.

3D instructions

  • Achieve intuitive 3D instructions.
  • Provide clear guidance to line operators and ensure enforcement to limit the risk of errors.
  • The interactive, accurate work instructions are easy to navigate with 3D representations and augmented reality on virtual and real assets.

IT/OT integration

  • Achieve intelligent data-driven ​production through IT/OT integration.
  • Gain a deeper understanding of operations through advanced analytics capabilities.
  • Generate business-relevant insights and compute overall equipment effectiveness, enhancing production transparency with real-time KPIs.

Total cost of ownership

  • Achieve reduced ​total cost of ownership (TCO).
  • Leverage multi-plant architecture support with open database, low-code environment and artificial intelligence (AI) integration to reduce TCO of your MES solution.

Traceability

  • Achieve trusted traceability.
  • Make informed decisions, trace down quality issues, trace origin and provide transparency and visibility across your production and supply chain thanks to data-driven insights.
  • Traceability and genealogy speed up access to product, production and supply chain data.

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Start your free 30-day trial of Opcenter Intelligence Cloud — our software-as-a-solution analytics solution that consolidates your manufacturing data into valuable insights to boost your plant efficiency.

Leading manufacturing execution solution

Siemens Digital Industries Software was recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Manufacturing Execution Systems 2024–2025 Vendor Assessment

Learn why selecting an adaptable, innovative MES is crucial for meeting both current and future business needs, and discover how Siemens can help you transform your shop floor using MES.

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Digitalizing our production using Opcenter allows us to be more agile and efficient, have greater control of resource management, create transparent communication, reduce costs and guarantee traceability. Rafael Pérez de Toro, Chief Quality Officer, Deoleo

Implement MES software with support and training

Start your MES journey with ease. Our support and service offerings will guide you along the way.

Personalize your MES solution

Use the power of low-code embedded capabilities, like Mendix, to create unique out-of-the-box solutions personalized for your business needs.

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Frequently asked questions

What is manufacturing execution system software?

MES software serves as a central hub for managing, controlling and optimizing manufacturing execution and processes. It empowers your teams to make informed decisions across the shop floor and address issues in real time.

Why should my company use MES software for manufacturing?

Many manufacturers still rely on manual processes and paper- or spreadsheet-based methods for manufacturing execution, exposing themselves to countless human errors. These traditional practices make it difficult to keep up with growing customer expectations and demand.

Using MES software can be transformative for your business as it helps you accelerate your smart manufacturing approach. A modern, comprehensive MES solution will take pressure off your teams and enable them to deliver products that are built exactly to customer requirements without compromising on time, quality or cost.

How can Siemens' MES solution support the manufacturing industry?

Opcenter Execution provides you with complete control over your manufacturing process and enables you to boost productivity, improve yield, lower operating costs and increase compliance. Opcenter Execution empowers you to:

  • Synchronize production processes across the supply chain and optimize production execution
  • Manage and track movement and storage of materials, in-process items and finished products
  • Track and trace the status of production and disposition of work
  • Manage and ensure regulatory and quality compliance
  • Track resource usage, personnel training and certification requirements and orchestrate work assignments
  • Provide up-to-the-minute reporting of actual manufacturing operations
  • Enable real-time feedback and resolution of manufacturing issues

Can I customize Siemens' MES software solution to my needs?

Opcenter Execution is fully personalized and adaptable with Mendix, our low code embedded capabilities. This means that our solution offers more personalized and human-centered operations in a faster, more convenient way. You can tailor user experiences to your business processes and specific industry needs, and take ownership of the UI personalization and co-creation in a fast and agile manner. By doing so, you are able to reduce implementation and maintenance costs and focus on continuous process innovation.