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Industrial technology, indexed.
Industrial automation · manufacturing · OT — updated 2026-09-23

MES

Operations management: orders, genealogy, quality, OEE.

Manufacturing execution systems manage shop-floor operations: scheduling, dispatch, genealogy, quality, and OEE. They sit between ERP (Level 4) and control (Levels 0–2), attaching production context — lots, orders, serial numbers — to raw process data.

See also: ERP · ISA-95 · SCADA

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