A Smart Manufacturing Execution System

Abstract

This paper presents a novel design of a smart and efficient Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to acquire data from the shop floor in a factory. With increasing complexities in the production process, improving industrial productivity using production information systems is a challenge for all industries in the world. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), since their introduction in the factory environment, are gaining popularity due to their ability to control and monitor production process using integrated data. However, employers/managers are still confronting with many complications in understanding huge information on the production process and reacting quickly based on such information. In this paper, we propose the design of NIRMAN Factory Information System (FIS)-A Smart MES to enable the control and monitoring of multiple factors of the production process like assembly line, personnel, quality control, safety, etc. NIRMAN FIS, a MES based on Android Smartphone, presents data about factory environment and factory operations on the manager's smartphone screen and helps him to react and take important decisions quickly and flexibly. Index Terms: Sectional Efficiency, Factory Efficiency, Assembly Line, Threshold Limit, Productivity, Morale, Factory Environment, Data Acquisition, Analysis, Automatic and Manual Control, Bluetooth, Arduino, Android, Remote Monitoring.