Ep 29 Manufacturing Execution Systems for Data-Driven Manufacturing - Kevin Jones, CEO Ectobox

Gaining competitive advantage is the main driver of innovation in nature as much as it is in technology. And the manufacturing ecosystem is no different.​In manufacturing, this manifests in the deployment of production automation systems on the shop floor, and enterprise planning systems on the top floor.​But yet, there's a grey area in between that has, for the most part, remained underutilised or wrongly implemented altogether.​This is where a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) would live.​To understand how manufacturers can gain a competitive advantage by leveraging a Modern MES Architecture for data-driven manufacturing, I invited Kevin Jones for a podcast conversation.​Kevin is the CEO and Lead Strategist at Ectobox, Inc., a Manufacturing Intelligence Solutions company andIndustry 4.0 systems integrator based in Pittsburgh, PA.​Below is the outline of our conversation  ✅ Drivers for Data-Driven Manufacturing✅ Introducing MES for Manufacturing✅ Functions of Manufacturing Execution Systems✅ Selecting and Implementing an MES System✅ Modern Manufacturing Execution System Architecture✅ Problems with Current Manufacturing Data Systems✅ Unified Namespace for Manufacturing Execution System✅ Brownfield Integration into Unified Namespace Architecture✅ The Future of MES in Manufacturing ​