Accelerate Your Smart Factory Initiatives Using a Next-Generation MES

You lack real-time visibility into production processes, machine performance, and product quality.
Your existing MES platform is operating in data silos without integration with other critical enterprise systems.
Your legacy MES cannot handle flexibility and scalability needed to manage multisite operations.
You lack predictive maintenance features, resulting in frequent and expensive downtimes.
You struggle to comply with modern regulatory standards or support sustainability initiatives due to lack of real-time monitoring and reporting features.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

CIOs can transform MES from a cost center into a competitive advantage creator by choosing a best-fit product that can integrate well with enterprise software and is capable of leveraging AI, IIOT, and cloud infrastructure.

Impact and Result

Info-Tech recognizes the role of CIOs in enabling smart factory and digitalization initiatives. This research aims to empower CIOs with the knowledge and tools necessary to evaluate and implement next-gen MES platforms to ensure their respective organizations remain competitive.

Info-Tech will provide:

A comprehensive guide explaining the benefits of next-gen MES platforms and a buyers guide to help CIOs evaluate, compare, and eventually choose the best-fit MES solution.
A deployment readiness tool to help CIOs assess their organizational readiness to implement a next gen MES.

Accelerate Your Smart Factory Initiatives Using a Next-Generation MES Research & Tools

1. Accelerate Your Smart Factory Initiatives Using a Next-Generation MES Storyboard – Research that aims to empower CIOs with the knowledge and tools necessary to evaluate and implement next-gen MES platforms to ensure their organizations remain competitive.

As manufacturing has become more complex and global, legacy monolithic systems are failing to keep pace with the need for connectivity, real-time visibility, and advanced analytics. The shift toward a next-generation, cloud-native MES platform is essential for companies aiming to achieve Industry 4.0 maturity.

2. Next-Gen MES Deployment Readiness Tool – A tool that helps CIOs get clarity on organizational readiness, prioritize efforts, allocate resources effectively, and make informed decisions for a successful MES implementation.

By guiding users through a structured evaluation across key dimensions of preparedness, this tool provides actionable insights into the organization’s current readiness to implement a next-generation, cloud-native MES and identifies areas requiring improvement to ensure a smooth and effective deployment.

Accelerate Your Smart Factory Initiatives Using a Next-Generation MES visualization

Don’t let a legacy manufacturing execution system (MES) hold you back.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

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Author

Shreyas Shukla

Contributors

Kristin McLane, CEO, CIMx
Jarda Smrz, Independent Expert, PINpoint MES
Marc Seguin, Independent Expert, PINpoint MES
Warren Andrade, Independent Expert, PINpoint MES
Melanie Davy, VP, Sales, PINpoint MES
Jennifer Epstein, Director, Sales Enablement, PINpoint MES
Scott Ryan, Consultant, Cetec ERP
Ryan McMartin, Independent Expert, Parsec
Jason Halpern, Independent Expert, Manufacturing Solutions Company
Anonymous, Independent Expert, Manufacturing Software Implementer
Anonymous, Manager, Supply Chain & Network Operations, Specialist Consulting Firm

Search Code: 106828
Last Revised: February 13, 2025