MESA White Paper #60: Smart Manufacturing and Cloud Computing
This paper will explore how Cloud Computing can help achieve the Smart Manufacturing goals to optimize processes inside the factory, as well as across the supply...
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MESA White Paper #59: Three Functional Dimensions Converge On Smart Manufacturing
How does an organization know that they are investing in the right areas to stay competitive? If your organization is confused about where to start or where to focus...
MESA White Paper #58: The Importance of Standards in Smart Manufacturing
The economies of scale obtained through standardization of utilities and transportation infrastructure, and the success of commercial manufacturing equipment...
MESA White Paper #57: Asset Performance Management (APM) 2.0 - Guidelines for Goal Setting & Implementation Planning
APM 2.0 is an intelligence-based approach to continuously improve asset performance. APM 2.0 is implemented to achieve one or more strategic goals, e.g. improving RONA...
MESA White Paper #56: Application of Machine Learning in Manufacturing, Cobranded Paper With Tata Consultancy Services
This paper explores how machine learning algorithms, in conjunction with big data technologies, can help manufacturers bring about operational and business...
MESA White Paper #55: Real-Time Accounting
This paper presents the concept of real-time accounting, an overview of the required real-time accounting measures and guidance on how they can be developed and...
MESA White Paper #54: Metrics Maturity Framework A Guide to Assessment and a Roadmap to Increased Performance
The MESA Metrics Maturity Model establishes a framework or system for the creation of manufacturing and related metrics. It allows organizations to assess their...
MESA White Paper #52: "Smart Manufacturing - The Landscape Explained"
This paper discusses the drivers, goals, opportunities and challenges related to the Smart Manufacturing roadmap for manufacturers. The paper also discusses related...
MESA White Paper #51: Enterprise Recipe Management – Recipe Transformation
The MESA Enterprise Recipe Management (ERM) whitepaper defines the processes and methods for an Enterprise Recipe Management system to support NPDI (New Product...
MESA White Paper #50: Deploying the Time-in-State Metric in Real-time to Improve Process Performance
This whitepaper explains how to implement a management and control methodology on the plant floor in real-time to improve the Time-in-State Metric (TISM). The...
MESA Whitepaper #49: Enterprise Recipe Management
The supply chain organizations of today’s manufacturers are under constant pressure to find opportunities to drive efficiency, productivity and speed to market. They...
MESA Whitepaper #48: Time-in-State Metric Implementation Methodology
This document provides an introduction to the Time-in-State Metric implementation methodology. It illustrates how the methodology integrates human and technical...
MESA White Paper #47: Time-in-State Management in the Process Industries
This document will introduce the concept of Time-in-State (TIS) Management as well as the related TIS Metric to be used to measure performance. The paper also compares...
MESA White Paper #46: Mobilizing Manufacturing
In this white paper, we focus on industry-specific applications, which can draw business value out of mobility.
MESA White Paper #45: Applying Manufacturing Operations Models In A Discrete Hybrid Manufacturing Environment
The paper explains a requirements definition method using ISA-95 Part 3 modeling techniques to describe the integration of a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) as...