The first MES/MOM system with Blockchain technology comes from Mesbook. In this post we review how this technology can benefit your company.
An MES (Manufacturing Execution System) typically contemplates the basic functionalities of Production, Productivity and Quality; while a MOM (Manufacturing Operations Manager)system adds to the previous functionalities solutions that cover the rest of the departments that can be integrated in Operations (Costs, Process Control, Real Consumption, Total Traceability, CMMS, WMS, Planning/Sequencing and Human Resources), thus allowing a fully digital management of a factory.
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What is Blockchain technology?
It is a distributed database, where relevant information is stored for a third party in an encrypted and unalterable way, when we write in Blockchain we write in stone, and that is the basis of the brutal trust that this technology generates.
How does an MES/MOM system complement Blockchain technology?
Through the implementation of Blockchain technology in an MES/MOM system, we can further strengthen our tool. By linking the fundamental pillars of an industrial plant with this blockchain technology, we are able to guarantee the security and integrity of data in real time. This innovation adds an additional layer of reliability and transparency to processes, ensuring the immutability of critical information on Production and Productivity, Quality, Traceability, CMMS, Costs and Human Resources.
In the important mission to optimize efficiency, increase productivity and reduce costs, Blockchain integration strengthens the ability to more efficiently track and manage the supply chain, verify product quality indisputably and simplify auditing processes to meet Industry 4.0 standards.
Thus, by combining industrial management expertise with the robustness of Blockchain technology, companies achieve not only a major evolution towards real-time management, but also gain a layer of security and trust that boosts efficiency and competitiveness in their operations.
Advantages of combining both technologies for factories.
The use cases are many and we group them into two categories: Efficiency and Business.
- In the chapter of improving efficiency (=generating savings) the greatest beneficiary is the Quality department, since Blockchain allows minimizing all product and process auditing tasks as well as eliminating all those customer non-conformities that were wrongly imputed to the supplier, since it certifies at the time of execution any material or process variable and allows the customer direct access to this information, thus discriminating the cause of "supplier failure" and searching at other points in the value chain. Therefore, we add to the indirect cost savings of the Quality department the direct and indirect cost savings generated by the replacement of the delivered material.
- Regarding how Blockchain helps to generate more business, the key word is trust, generated from the transparency and professionalism in management, which requires giving access to such detail of the processes. This high level of management translates into fewer service failures and therefore to achieving better ratings as a supplier. Another example of increased business comes from the empowerment of the consumer, increasingly interested in local production, designation of origin or Bio, Vegan or similar products, so a tool that gives the end customer access to certified information that is accessible through the user's own cell phone, generates more business and is also a marketing tool.
Specialized companies
MESbookis the only real-time management system for factories, combining Production, Cost, Quality, CMMS and Human Resources control, offering a comprehensive solution that drives manufacturing in a digitized environment at the forefront of Industry 4.0.
Xpander powered by Teknia is a company specialized in developing Blockchain applications for various sectors, which has a multiblockchain platform called www.alize.es and a fully functional Api that can be integrated into any software to generate a brutal layer of trust. Xpander is part of Teknia a multinational group dedicated to the manufacture of automotive components with presence in 13 countries.
Through the union between MESbook and Xpander, and the implementation of Blockchain technology, we can further strengthen our tool.
Director & Business Development Blockchain & TD at Xpander
