Recent years, Smart manufacturing is sweeping the world,more and more manufacturing beginning to adopt intelligent manufacturing methods, As one of the cores of intelligent manufacturing, intelligent factory has become one of the important trends in the development of manufacturing industry. However, in order to realize the construction of intelligent factory, it needs to cover the management and control of the whole process from production planning, production scheduling to production execution, which requires an integrated manufacturing execution system-MES system.

MES system, also known as manufacturing execution system, usually includes production planning module, production scheduling module, production execution module, quality management module, equipment management module and material management module, etc. Through digital, automated and intelligent technical means, realize the management and control of the whole process of real-time monitoring, data collection and analysis, production planning and scheduling, so as to improve production efficiency and quality level and reduce production cost, it provides important support and guarantee for the construction of intelligent factories.

MES system application scenarios

Production Scheduling: monitor the operation of the production line in real time, and schedule and optimize the production line according to the order and inventory conditions, so as to improve production efficiency and reduce production costs.

Quality Management: detect the quality of products on the production line in real time, and classify and handle unqualified products to ensure that the products produced meet the quality standards. In addition, quality management can also help factory managers to adjust and optimize the production line to improve product quality and production efficiency.

Online Monitoring: monitor the production line through the access of industrial sensors and controllers, timely discover equipment faults and abnormal situations, and provide real-time fault analysis and treatment suggestions. It can also help factory managers find problems on the production line in time and take appropriate measures to ensure the continuous and stable operation of the production line.

Data Analysis: collect data on the production line, analyze and optimize the production process, thus improving production efficiency and reducing production costs.

Process Management: manage and optimize the process on the production line to ensure the stability and consistency of the production process. It can also help factory managers to formulate more reasonable production processes and improve product quality and production efficiency.

MES system requirements are not only complex, but also need the support of computing and processing capabilities and intelligent algorithms. Industrial-grade ARM processors can be used. Qiyang RK3568 system hardware and high-performance low-power Cortex-A55 quad-core processors provide powerful computing support for MES system, reducing the load on the cloud center and improving the overall performance of the system.

Built-in 8m ISP image processor and AI accelerator NPU with up to 1tops can quickly and accurately identify and classify products on the production line, helping factory managers to better understand product quality and production efficiency, and find and solve problems in time.

It has rich display and peripheral interfaces, supports three-screen simultaneous display and different display, integrates eDP/MIPI/LVDS/HDMI and other display interfaces, has strong display performance, brings good human-computer interaction experience, can clearly show workers graphic information such as production tasks and operation manuals, and guides workers to work. By cooperating with human-computer interaction equipment, it CAN help factory management personnel to better understand the equipment status, find and solve problems in time, and improve production efficiency and product quality; Support USB3.0, PCIE 3.0, CAN, RS232, RS485, SATA and other interfaces, which CAN meet the access of various industrial sensors and controllers, realize real-time monitoring and data collection of production lines, and provide high-speed wireless network connection, it facilitates remote monitoring and management of MES system to improve management efficiency and convenience.

Supports single 4K or multiple 1080p @ 30fps video decoding, and supports same encoding and decoding. Hardware-based video encoding and decoding has higher work efficiency. MES system can process and store video data in production activities more efficiently, and realize recording, monitoring and analysis of production process.

Dynamic Frequency modulation and voltage regulation technology is adopted to effectively reduce power consumption and improve endurance, meet the long-term operation requirements of MES system, maintain high stability and reliability, and ensure the smooth progress of production process.

With the continuous development of intelligent manufacturing, MES system, as one of the core technologies of intelligent factories, will play an increasingly important role in the future, realizing the intellectualization, digitization and networking of production management and promoting the development of intelligent factories.