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THE PRESENT AND
FUTURE OF MES IN A CHANGING IT
LANDSCAPE Dennis Brandl
Mike James
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THE CHANGING IT LANDSCAPE
Everything is in “The Cloud”
It’s all about “Big Data”
The future is BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
and Apps
The future is usually a surprise
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CLOUDS Computing is rapidly becoming a utility
Major hardware and expense savings
Often 1/3 to 1/10 the cost of dedicated servers
Failover, redundancy, backup, scalability, patching, upgrades, …
No more “exotic” than electricity, water, lighting, phone
Networks are just “plumbing”
Request it, don’t need to over justify it, delivered within hours or days
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THE STORM CLOUDS
Anything in the cloud is not private
You don’t know where your data is
You don’t know where your application is executing
In a public cloud, anywhere in the world
“Private clouds” will grow in use
Just like private water, power, phones, …
Manufacturing will use a lot of private clouds
For control of data
For 100% or 99.99999% availability
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CLOUD – GET THE BASICS RIGHT FIRST
Your MES will run in the cloud (along with a lot
of other Level 3 applications)
Your Advanced process control modeling will run
in the cloud
Basically everything except your PLCs and DCSs
will run in a public or private cloud
So, get the basics right first
Fast deployment, minimal approvals
Fast scale-up
Fast support
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BIG DATA
Operations already has big data
Terabytes of sensor readings and equipment states
But, data without context has limited value
How do we find the 1MB of useful INFORMATION in the 1TB historian DATA?
Find the hidden 0.00001 %
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INFORMATION AS THE KEY TO
PRODUCTIVITY
Productivity is optimized by doing the most
efficient activity, at the most effective time, by
the most effective person
That requires information
Information is DATA + CONTEXT
Information to make better decisions based on more
than gut feelings and limited experience
Information that is reviewed, analyzed and verified
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BIG DATA - CONTEXTUALIZED
Context is Jobs and steps in jobs
Batches and steps (operations, phases) in batches
We need the tools in operations that provide the context for big data MES & Batch systems
These systems will be mission critical for manufacturing operations
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BYOD
Bring Your Own Device
Everyone has one!
Becoming an indispensable
tool for everyone
It’s our interface to the co-
workers, friends, boss,
vendors, clients, …
It’s our interface to our
car, house, …
Why not our production
floor?
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all these things
now fit in your
YOUR HANDHELD DEVICE
Today’s smartphone replaces
phones, cameras, GPS devices,
video recorders, audio recorders, media players,
Internet browsers, email interface, compasses,
maps, language translation devices,
phone books, heart rate sensors, calculators,
sound meters, thermometers, remote control devices,
bar code scanners, and other devices too numerous to
list
When combined with additional sensors, the
smartphone becomes a tool for medical analysis,
electronic signal analysis, infrared sensing analysis,
and radar, to name just a few applications
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BYOD - THE NEXT STEPS
Our Expectations - The Star Trek Effect
BYOD should “know”
Who we are
Where we are
What we can do
Be aware of the context (red alert ….)
Provide assistance & situational
awareness
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BYOD AND APP STORES
Everyone has one
Everyone seems to have a different one
Company “App” stores with the approved apps
that can be loaded for use in operations
Auto update
Limited rights
Subscription/service model
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BYOD
Your Level 3 systems must work with BYOD
Android – Various versions
iPhone – Various versions
Windows 8 – Maybe
Running “approved” Apps
If you are semi-regulated
or
Running on company supplied smart device
If you are highly regulated
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LOOK TO THE FUTURE
First look at the past
Growing productivity for hundreds (thousands) of
years
No indication that the growth in productivity is
significantly slowing
Each cycle of growth is fueled by technology
innovation
Stone, bronze, iron, wind/water, coal/steam,
gasoline, electronics, …
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WE ARE THE FUTURE
There are more people alive now than ever before
The average and mean standard of living around
the world is higher now than ever before
There are more scientists and engineers alive
and practicing than even before
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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE
It takes decades for a cycle of growth to reach
most industries
Today only 10%-20% of manufacturing companies
are effectively using IT in manufacturing
They are seeing 30%-40% productivity advantages
They are improving productivity at twice the rate of
other companies
The current cycle of productivity will last for at
least another decade
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WHAT’S NEXT
Change is often unexpected
The watermill
The printing press
The railroad
The telegraph
The automobile/truck – gasoline engine
The Internet
The ????
A Prediction
It’s our children’s generation that will find the “discover”
the next big thing
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THANK YOU 18
