Manufacturing Execution Systems

A Strategic and Organisational Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-42120-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing

This book offers a management-oriented view of Manufacturing Execution Systems for industrial organizations facing the challenges of digital manufacturing. Rather than treating MES only as software, technical architecture, or an implementation project, this book presents MES as a strategic management initiative: a way to connect business objectives, operational strategy, performance indicators, and shop-floor reality.

Written in clear, direct language, this book is intended for operations directors, plant managers, production managers, line managers, MES consultants, systems integrators, and graduate students in manufacturing management and digital manufacturing. It explains why MES decisions are never purely technical and why successful MES projects require cross-functional understanding, governance, and a clear view of production management as an information-driven process.

This book develops its argument from the foundations of metrics and information flows to the management role of MES, the functional structure of MES, and the organizational and psychological reasons why MES initiatives often fail. Based on more than twenty years of the author’s practical experience, it provides a conceptual framework for understanding, justifying, designing, implementing, and governing MES as part of a broader manufacturing digitalization strategy.

This book is valuable for readers who need to understand not only how MES software is implemented, but why MES matters for manufacturing management as a whole.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reshetnikov, Igor

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Produktionstechnik Fertigungstechnik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Management and information.- MES: A management perspective.- MES: A functional perspective.- Is everything conspiring against us?- Afterword.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Igor Reshetnikov is an industrial automation specialist with more than twenty years of experience in manufacturing, information systems, and operational management. He holds a PhD in Computer Science, and his professional background combines scientific research, enterprise IT management, software development, implementation projects, business analysis, and professional education.

Dr. Reshetnikov’s principal professional interests include manufacturing digitalization, operational management systems, and enterprise applications supporting industrial operations, particularly Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). He has worked across the oil and gas industry, discrete manufacturing, mechanical engineering, and metallurgy and is the author of numerous professional articles and several monographs on industrial information systems and manufacturing management.

Dr. Reshetnikov is one of the founders of the Czech MES competence centre MEScentrum.cz and collaborates with UNIS, a.s. as a business analyst.