What is flexible production?

Flexible manufacturing is actually a consumer-oriented fixed mode of production.

When it comes to flexible manufacturing, we have to compare with traditional manufacturing.

The traditional manufacturing industry is characterized by large-scale production of a single variety.

In the new manufacturing environment, this mode of production can no longer meet the diversity and complexity of market products, so a new mode of production, namely flexible manufacturing, has emerged.

The biggest feature of flexible manufacturing is that it can realize single variety and small batch production, and different products can be produced simultaneously on the assembly line. Then in this process, MES is particularly important for production control. Technicians can set different product formulas in MES to realize the process independence of each station and ensure that each product can be produced in a specific process environment. MES can complete the horizontal line setting of line-side inventory through the analysis of production scheduling plan, and ensure the sufficiency of production materials for each product.

Therefore, flexible manufacturing is inseparable from the control of MES, which makes flexible manufacturing widely used in the current manufacturing environment.