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SME MM98-114
- Tower Automotive Facility, Roanoke Virginia, A Fully Integrated Mes Implementation
- standard by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 11/01/1998
- Publisher: SME
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Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are becoming recognized by many top managers for the important contributions they can make to the success of a manufacturing based business. This article describes the plant wide MES application employed at the Roanoke manufacturing facility of Tower Automotive. It is a plant wide implementation supporting a fully automated facility. This paper describes how MES assists plant management by using information technology to manage and coordinate the high volume data needs of a fully automated facility.