| dc.description.abstract | Recently as the rising of Industry 4.0 with the rapidly improvement of hardware and software, the smart factory becomes reality. Most manufacturing industry are willing to implement the core system of the smart factory, Manufacturing Execution System (MES), to manage the production capacity, improve product quality by understanding the real-time status of the production line. It can response market with small and diverse demands today to increase the competitiveness of company and bring more revenue to stand firmly in the global market.
The manufacturing industry understands that MES is the core of the operation of the smart factory to be important and must be imported, but still feel strange to it. In the past, many companies successfully implemented MES but more companies failed. The reason is that the MES implementation is complicated with multi-faceted. If we want to do it successfully, many key factors need to be considered. Enterprise culture, company background, organization, and situation in the moment are all different which also affects the key factors to the success of MES implementation.
This research is based on grounded theory, through in-depth interviews with consultants of MES to understand the actual process of the MES implementation project. Repeatedly organizes and analyzes the information collected by those interviews, then summarizes the key successful factors of the MES implementation to come out the proposition of this research.
The key successful factors of MES implementation include the following:
(1) Company support with ”high-level determination and support”, ”project success or failure is related to performance” and ”dedicated full-time unit”.
(2) User-side Project Manager capabilities: including ”Familiarity with production process”, ”Familiarity with MES system”, ”Project execution ability”.
(3) The cooperation degree of production line on testing time.
(4) System test completeness.
(5) The cooperation degree of the equipment supplier.
(6) The delivery or modification of the equipment must be completed within reasonable time.
This research proposes following propositions:
(1) Proposition 1: People in the production line of traditional industries rejected the MES more than people of other industries.
(2) Proposition 2: High-level determination and support are highly related to the system test completed within reasonable time.
(3) Proposition 3: Company supporting higher, the probability of project success is higher.
(4) Proposition 4: Capability of the enterprise Project Manager is more professional, the system test completeness is more solid.
(5) Proposition 5: The enterprise scale is larger, more chance the automated integration testing phase be completed within reasonable time.
Wish the findings of this research can provide more hints of key successful factors to those companies or manufacturers who want to implement MES. As a reference by analyzing the key successful factors, they can understand the background reasons, influences and scope of these key factors and adjust them properly by company actual conditions to increase the probability of successful MES implementation project. | en_US |