3. Deployment approach

3.1 Functional scope

The functional scope covered on all sites is very extensive. It includes control and command (automation), supervision (human-machine interface, recording and display of measurements, alarm management), launch and follow-up of operations associated with production orders, their traceability, management of materials and workshop stocks, as well as upward and downward genealogy of raw materials, products and co-products. These functions are complemented by others that fall slightly outside the scope of MES, such as inventory and delivery route management.

In the same way as the processes, which are not the same at each site, the functional scope implemented varies from one site to another. Some sites are equipped, at least initially, with...