Top 5 Reasons To Integrate

Here’s a quick list of the top reasons to integrate your CMMS with your MES:

1. Prevent Operators from Using Inappropriate Equipment – by linking the live status of the equipment to your MES you can prevent unintended use.
2. Build a more complete Electronic Batch Record/Device History – By including not only live status, but asset history information your Batch Record/Device History record will be more complete and accurate.
3. Track and communicate Equipment Changes Which Effect the Process – with Change Control being pushed to the point of activity, the CMMS typically contains the most current information on changes that could affect quality
4. Measure Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) – the use of Key Performance Indicators such as OEE has increased.  It is a way to measure the productivity of manufacturing and the information contained in the CMMS combined with the Production data of the MES enables it.
5. It’s a Simple Integration – Software system integrations can be time consuming and lengthy, but integrating a CMMS with and MES is one of the simplest.  It is usually a “one way” pull of data from the CMMS to the MES and can be accomplished by of the shelf functionality in the MES and simple report views and SQL statements into the CMMS