Maelo resources
Practical thinking for MES projects.
Articles exploring MES design and implementation choices: batch records, interfaces, review and ongoing support. Methods and teaching examples drawn from project situations. Adapt them to each site’s procedures and validation strategy.
Moving to electronic batch records: start with one operation
Before configuring an EBR, establish what happens at the workstation, who provides the data and how an interrupted operation resumes.
Review by exception: designing it into the MES
Understand review by exception, define MES checks and rules, then explore an example combining a washer verdict and visual inspection.
MES go‑live: prepare the first workstation
Access, data, people and support: walk through the conditions for startup with the teams who will use the MES.
Training our MES consultants: start with the factory
A real MES connected to an ERP, a SCADA and simulated equipment, to understand interfaces by following a manufacturing operation.
After go‑live: give support the context it needs
Organise MES administration, the Business System Owner role, on-call coverage and system changes after go‑live.