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• Collecting, retrieving and archiving information 
  • Should an MES provide functions for production data archiving?
  • What kind of data should be processed?
  • How long should this data be archived?

 

• Providing interfaces 
  • To which systems should interfaces be provided (eg PLS, LIMS, WM, ERP, Internet sources, cloud services, etc.)?
  • How are these interfaces to be specified in detail?
  • Which communication standards should be supported?
  • Should online interfaces and archive interfaces be made available?

 

• Providing standardized reports
  • Should an MES provide standard reports?
  • Which reports should be created?
  • Should reports be created automatically?
  • Should ad-hoc reports be created?
  • Should reports be distributed automatically (eg by e-mail?)

 

• Maintaining information for local process and production analysis and for reporting to higher-level logistics systems
  • Should an MES provide data for operational evaluation and analysis as well as for transfer to higher-level logistics systems?
  • What kind of data?
  • Should the data be provided cyclically or on request?
  • Should this data be visualized in the MES?

 

• Maintaining information for product tracking 
  • Should an MES manage product traceability data?
  • What kind of data should be managed? Product / system properties, status information, etc.

 

• Providing compliance monitoring and alarm management functionality
  • Should an MES provide functionality to monitor compliance requirements?
  • Should an MES provide alarm management functions?
  • What kind of alarm management functions (frequency analyzes (histograms), message sequence analyzes, hit lists etc.)?

 

• Providing product quality information for comparison against specification 
  • Should an MES provide product quality information compared to product specifications?
  • Should this data be exchanged with other systems (LIMS)?