Information Systems Support for Manufacturing Processes - The Standard S95 Perspective

Manufacturing Execution Systems and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems support the Manufacturing Enterprise. The two families of systems have been developed independently, so they have grown without a scope or a strictly defined border. The feature overlapping between them raises relevant issues in the integration with control systems. This paper analyzes how different types of manufacturing processes are supported by ERP and MES, and how the standard developed by ISA: S95 defines the scope of each system. This standard also provides the separation of production from non-production processes. A paper mill enterprise case study is presented, where the business processes are identified and a system framework is proposed in accordance with the S95 hierarchy function model.