Configuration of a Manufacturing Execution System for bottling

摘要

As part of the process integration a key challenge is posed by linking the automation level to the wider IT infrastructure. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) fill the gap between the production systems and the company management level (Fig. 1). The department for food packaging technology at the Technical University of Munich-Weihenstephan configured a commercially available MES product for use in bottling and linked it to a pilot system in the food technology laboratory.