Developing & Deploying an Enterprise MES
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- In the second video in this series, Walker Reynolds explains how to develop and deploy an enterprise-class MES system. You have to adopt an agile mindset and think like a software developer. When deploying an MES, or any enterprise solution such as an IIoT implementation, you are going to have two different sets of needs. You will have the corporate level needs, and you will have the plant level needs. In theory corporate will have all the needs, but in reality, when you go to deploy your pilot at your sites, you will run into the plant's actual needs that are in addition to the corporate level needs. These needs are often dealbreakers and you must go through the development and integration and review steps several times to get through this process. This is why we had to explain the agile software development life-cycle in the first video in the series which you can view here: • The Software Developme...
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This video is gem. He’s spot on. I’ve experienced this first hand. With over 10 years of manufacturing experience and 5 years web development , I wanted to start developing custom MES software targeting small manufacturing businesses. I’m really glad i found this video.
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The most important take-away from this video is this -- developing successful enterprise solutions hinges on your ability to start small, adjust and then scale. Requirements will change -- and you can't spend all of your money refactoring. If you believe you can collect all requirements up front and then deliver turn-key, you will fail. If you don't account for the impact your client's expanding knowledge will have on your project, you will fail. It is easy to bolt on new features to a sound framework -- it is next to impossible to refactor the underlying framework and not impact all of the bolt on features that have been added after the initial development.
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Such a gem of video with so much interesting points. What I am missing in your videos is a sequence. For the beginners who are moving into a digitization / transformation roles, it would be great if you can have a playlist to follow or maybe your own course or a book, all are heartily welcome!
Great suggestion! We’ll put something together
I should add that our IIoT mini-course is a good place to start, too. It's a series of 7 vids and it's free
👉 bit.ly/iiotmini-course
@@4.0Solutions Thanks for the link :)
Wow, this concept is very helpful!! Thanks a lot!
Glad it was helpful!
This is very helpful, thank you!
Thank you!
Always love your videos my friend!
Thank you!
Since you're using agile, why not be eliciting and incorporating operator/end user requirements in earlier design, build, test rounds? Or at least documenting process and interface specs at the Business unit level earlier.
Sheryl McCrary good question... the answer is, end users need the context of the MES system in front of them BEFORE they can apply their needs to the context.
@@walkerreynolds973 thats just a failure of the design research and prototyping phase. You don't need to build a whole MES to discover the highest value problems and pain points to solve. Thats UX 101
@@ufo_ninja Thank you for the feedback. We aren't suggesting you build an entire MES in the first cycle -- we are suggesting you PILOT a framework MES in the first cycle to expand the knowledge base of the stakeholders and further hone their requirements prior to building out the entire MES. Here is why... building industrial solutions differs from consumer solutions because the requirements building is generally less reliable -- why? -- because the stakeholders who define business requirements do so based on their existing knowledge. Invariably, their needs (and their requirements) evolve as their knowledge expands. This is a function of the artificial limitations they place on what is 'possible'. This is one of biggest reasons digital transformation projects fail -- they do not account for the evolution of the primary requirements. Software developers are really good at bug fixes and new requirements and really bad at refactoring primary features when their requirements change... something that does not happen nearly as often in the consumer space.
Thank you for sharing Sheryl!
After understanding business unit's requirements at review stage, it's too late to try to figure out a way to "fit" them into the solution that's already built.
Far too late.
Loved the video. But switching from one angle to another was a bit of an overkill
Noted!
This video is great but it would be nice to include how the software works
Check out some of our other videos!
I am an absolute beginner and i am not able to differentiate between MES & Scada, I feel like both are interchangeable, Can anyone please explain me in layman terms ?
Yes! Please take a look at The 5-Layer Model in the IIoT whiteboard series on our channel!
1 MES can control multiple SCADA in a plant, right?
yes
Yes
Hello. Being fairly new to enterprise deployment i was wondering on new laptops such as the Lenovo T490 the default UEFI "Network Boot" option is set to PXE by default (and we f12 image over the network, works great). I've had no issues leaving this setting set to PXE after imaging the device and deploying it also. Is this ok in your opinion to leave this setting as PXE, or would you update it to something else such as the Nvme drive etc per industry standards. Wondering if it matters since UEFI is becoming the standard. Thanks.
Good question! That's going to be a tough one that we would work out with tech support from the OEM. Very technical the things we do!
@@4.0Solutions cool and by the way can you recommend a good resource book or video course that can help somebody to get up to speed on Enterprise deployment, everything one might want to do with a build?
@@tjmns I'll ask Walker this in the Industry 4.0 Discord Server. (You should join too) www.intellic.online/discord