Smart Manufacturing Execution Systems for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Abstract

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) plays an important role in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for their daily production operations. SMEs’ businesses traditionally rely on paper based system of operations. With the rapid increase in technology, it is almost guaranteed that this will be replaced by more efficient and reliable smart MES. This paper presents a RFID enabled real-time manufacturing system which will incorporate five functions. These five functions will be integrated into an android based interface which reads and writes data to a cloud based database in real time. NFC technology is also utilized to improve the ease of use. This aims to promote communication within a company, improve product quality, optimize data storage and reduce paper waste. A case study demonstrates the feasibility and practicality of the designed and developed system.