Rockwell Automation全球信息解决方案和流程业务总监Barry Johnson说：“ MES是公司增长最快的领域之一。”“这是因为它（MES）今天更容易实施，并且成本降低了。因此，不再仅仅是由实施MES的监管合规性原因驱动的公司，整个市场中都有逆风。”
约翰逊（Johnson）关于降低成本的评论驱动MES技术实施的评论与Rockwell Automation总裁兼首席执行官Blake Moret在Rockwell Automation的Automation Perspects活动与该公司的年度自动化博览会合作举行的有关以太网的陈述。In Moret’s presentation, he pointed to the convergence of IT and operations technology (OT) taking place around standard—not proprietary—Ethernet IP “because of the simplicity of having one network connecting the plant and the enterprise and the low price per point of connectivity.”
以太网一直是植物的一个关键方面to-enterprise connectivity via MES—and digitalization in manufacturing in general. The difference now is that increasing numbers of automation supplier executives like Moret are signaling that standard Ethernet is advancing beyond departmental linkages and toward greater use throughout the plant floor. A key point in this potential transformation will be the completion of the Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) standard and its adoption by industry. TSN brings determinism to standard Etherent. (在此处查看有关TSN的更多信息。）
“MES is digitization,” noted Johnson, adding that industry interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) and digitization are behind the increased interest in MES. “MES has been a niche opportunity over the years, but increased awareness of the benefits of digitization are driving more interest in MES than I’ve ever seen before.”
约翰逊说，对MES的新兴趣发生了变化，这在于用户想要采用它。约翰逊说：“在私有云中托管的ME需要很多IT基础架构。”“但是HTML 5版的MES允许我们利用薄的客户技术，以便[MES]应用程序可以驻留在公共云中。最终，这是关于可伸缩性和可负担性的。”
During his presentation at Automation Perspectives, John Genovesi, Rockwell Automation’s vice president and general manager of Information Software and Process Business, noted that Rockwell Automation’s “fit-for-purpose” MES applications for performance management (OEE), production management (ERP order management), and quality, join the company’s tailoring of MES capabilities available in药房，CPGSuite和AutoSuite。约翰逊说：“所有这些产品都代表了历史MES的各个方面”成长为更广泛的应用程序。
约翰逊说，这是MES发展的更加自定义的占地面积，这是MES演变的重要一点，因为从历史上看，想要做更多针对MES的用户将“共同烹饪自己的解决方案”。他说，这种方法的问题在于，此类内部应用程序的数据可能不在“能够螺栓固定在更大的MES系统上的正确结构”。“我们使客户能够用易于集成，可扩展的系统替换那些内部系统。另外，没有人愿意处理与内部开发的自定义代码相关的维护。他们想要COTS [自定义货架]软件。”
Highlighting the growing trend toward greater工业技术伙伴关系通常，罗克韦尔自动化的发展作为一个industrial software providerin particular, Genovesi noted, “partnerships are critical to our strategy. Some of our partnerships will be technical partnerships for speed to market reasons, some will be business partnerships to link technologies to business strategy, and some will be delivery partnerships with local companies to enable quicker deployment. Building an entire ecosystem on your own today is not viable; you don't have two-year development cycle times anymore.”
