Short description
This guideline is considered as a compendium for the deciders (exexutive directors as well as production managers, IT, material logistics, quality, maintenance, staffing, controlling), process owners and users (planning operation, logistics, order control department, production planning, production, quality assurance, maintenance...), the involved in selection and introduction processes with their technical emphases (project managers as well as internal ans external service providers) and providers of software, hardware and integration and offers a problem-oriented description of MES and its application potentials. It reflects existing concepts of the MESA, completes and updates them and displays the interests of the European manufacturer in a better way. This guideline focusses on the description of the problems and the benefits of MES. The collateral standardisation and definition projects (e. g. NE 94, ISA S95, IEC 62264) defer to the aspects of realisation in detail.