Continuously improving time-to-market and time-to-full production has become a requirement in modern manufacturing companies. This means the information discovered in R&D and pilot plant operations must be sent quickly and correctly to the manufacturing facilities, and that the facilities can quickly turn that information into manufacturing instructions.
The MESA Enterprise Recipe Management (ERM) whitepaper defines the processes and methods for an Enterprise Recipe Management system to support NPDI (New Product Development and Introduction) processes. The whitepaper includes information on business processes, approaches to solutions, methods for capturing site best practices, and tools used to implement ERM.
One important element of an effective ERM implementation is the ability to algorithmically convert and transform the information used in the NPDI processes, such as general recipes, into the executable recipes used by commercial Batch Execution Systems (BES). The transformations methods can be complex, but the transformation can be reliable and repeatable by creating and following corporate standards, and significantly reducing time to first production and improving cross-site consistency.
Date Published: May 2015
Authors:
- Dennis Brandl
- Greg Cantlon
- Phil Morreale
- Erik Nistad
- Christopher Stevens
- Donald Strunk
- Tom Swift
- Mike Williams
- Khris Kammer
- Phil Klion
- Jan Snoeij
- Patrick Weber