Category: Glossary

Connecting business IT with operational technology on the factory floor.

Planned maintenance at time- or usage-based intervals to lower failure risk.

MES manages execution; MOM covers a wider set of manufacturing operations.

Understand manufacturing skills management, skills matrices, qualification checks and training evidence, and how workforce capability data supports safe production.

Understand what a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) does, how it supports work orders and preventive maintenance, and how it differs from EAM and MES.

Learn what an Energy Management System (EMS) does, how manufacturers monitor utilities and energy performance, and how EMS relates to ISO 50001, SCADA and production data.

Learn what a Quality Management System (QMS) is, how manufacturing quality processes fit together, and how inspections, CAPA, nonconformances and traceability support improvement.

Understand what electronic batch records are, what information they contain, how EBR supports review and traceability, and how it differs from paper records and MES.

Learn what paperless manufacturing means, how digital work instructions and electronic records support production, and where a paperless approach fits with MES and EBR.

Understand what Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) is, how it relates to ISA-95, MES and ERP, and which production activities it helps coordinate.