The production company covers the production of metal and plastic products and semi-finished products, chemical processing of metal semi-finished products, assembly and packaging of finished products. As part of production, there are more than 200 machines and devices from various manufacturers, which are only partially connected to the company's IT structure. For management and control, the company uses ERP (i.e. Enterprise Resource Management) Infor LN, MES (i.e. Manufacturing Management System) Proinfo and PLM (i.e. Product Lifecycle Management) Windchill. These systems are not connected to the processes in production to the extent that digital traceability of production can be achieved.
In the thesis, in the first step, we performed an analysis of the state of connectivity of production systems with the company's business systems. The analysis includes the analysis of the production floor plan, individual production machines and devices, and graphic interfaces. In the next step, we created an overview of the use of ERP, MES and PLM systems in the company, as well as the method of data exchange between them and production facilities and devices. In the last step, we developed several concepts for the connectivity of production systems with the company's business systems. The result of the final thesis is the presentation of various possible concepts of connectivity between production systems/devices with IoT modules and ERP, MES and PLM systems and discussion of the suitability of the concepts for the company.
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