People, Organization and IT Working Together

How do you meet the challenges of modern production? How can you distinguish yourself from the competition? How do you achieve an optimal result working as a team with your employees?

Today's production is engaged in constant global competition on the basis of cost, quality and flexibility. In a greatly accelerating change process, new challenges must be met, such as more complex products, shortened product lifecycles, faster launch and cycle times and higher quality requirements. Individual factors are weighted based on the industry and process. Solution strategies can also vary greatly. Ultimately, solutions must be developed which support you in ensuring high product quality, on-time delivery and a continual reduction in manufacturing costs. You have to meet new regulatory requirements for traceability or reduce product risks. You require seamless transparency at all decision-making levels across all production processes and levels. You must be able to introduce new products quickly and efficiently. At the same time, you must also manage increasingly complex processes with an existing team. Modern production software can make an important contribution to meeting these diverse requirements.

Traditional MES products or in-house developments are often outdated or highly specialized standalone solutions. They don't fit with the global IT strategies of the enterprise, since they are based on function, business area or location details. The results are high maintenance costs, limited resources for expansion and maintenance, and poor acceptance from users. In close cooperation with SAP ERP, Trebing + Himstedt has developed an integrated MES solution based on the SAP Manufacturing portfolio. For the first time in this form, it will be possible to deliver SAP ERP production and quality assurance processes to employees at the workplace. The solution reduces the complexity of SAP ERP, provides intuitive touch screen interfaces to industry PCs and permits uninterrupted production, even when SAP ERP is unavailable. Preconfigured templates speed up the introduction and rollout of the solution to different locations.