OCTOBER 20166 MANUFACTURINGTECHNOLOGYINSIGHTS.COM With increasingly complex customer requirements, accelerated product delivery and the need to reduce process costs, manufacturers today are under constant pressure to streamline their shop floor operations. The latest innovations in Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) address this need by assisting day-to-day shop floor task executions, and at the same time transforming it into a center for business excellence.The next generation MES's are being designed to assist complex manufacturing landscapes with end-to-end compliance and seamless management while offering enterprise-wide visibility and control. Industry specific MES solutions designed for pharmaceutical, healthcare, and paper industries are increasingly taking the form of commercial off-the-shelf offerings, giving manufacturers the flexibility and cost-savings. In addition, these solutions have the capabilities to integrate with other enterprise software such as ERP, PLM, or CRM to enable manufacturers monitor the entire business operations, starting from procurement, and production to supply chain, and sales.All these abilities are making MES an indispensible tool for manufacturers, which in turn is propelling the MES market to top $7.4 Bn by 2020, as stated by the Global Industry Analysts report. Alongside, the emergence of cloud, IIoT, mobility, and big data analytics will further drive MES usability across manufacturing industries. There will be further fundamental innovations occurring in the MES landscape; empowering manufacturers to stay on cutting edge of market with a well run plant, improved bottom line, on time delivery, and better quality products. In this scenario, our goal with this special edition is to highlight companies that offer best-of-breed MES solutions. This edition blends thought-leadership from subject matter experts with real stories on what selected vendors are doing for their clients, including exclusive insights from CIOs and CXOs. Let us know what you think.Shop Floors of the Future EditorialCopyright © 2016 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.October - 25 - 2016Mailing AddressValleyMedia, Inc. 44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.936.8381, F:510-894.8405 October - 25- 2016, Vol 02- Issue 08 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to ManufacturingTechnology InsightsVisit www.manufacturingtechinologysights.com Editor-in-ChiefLaura DavisEditorial StaffSalesVisualizerMichael WilliamsRuben Philipruben.t@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.comT:510.556.2283Ava GraciaJoshua ParkerMichelle WilsonPeter ThomasRaj Kumar GuptaVivian MurrayTECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSTECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSLaura DavisEditor-in-ChiefManufacturingTechnology InsightsWrite to useditor@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.com
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