Why Next-Gen? Why Now?
Traditional MES legacy systems were built for stability and meant to last, but they fail to keep up with the fast-paced, complex market demands and disruptions of today. Here's what we hear about legacy MESs:
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Awful User Experiences
Frontline operators are expecting intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces. Legacy tools lack augmentation and connectivity.
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Rigid and Slow
Modern facelifts might bring pretty UIs and capability checkmarks, but the underlying 30-year-old monolithic code is clunky and limiting.
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Implementation Headaches
With all-or-nothing MES approach, value is delayed years. Reliance on vendors means small updates take months.
Connected composable apps power operations
Tulip allows you implement frontline workflow apps to guide operators and standardize capture data, leverage shared data structures to store data, and analytics to view performance. Download pre-built apps from the Tulip Library and configure them to your operations.
The Life Cycle of a Next-Gen MES with Tulip
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Low-Risk Implementation
Deploy Tulip gradually in layers to accommodate the most pressing challenges over time - without having to rip and replace existing systems.
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Centralized Real-Time Data
Create real-time dashboards and gain insights contextualized by collecting data for people, devices, and machines.
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Citizen Development
Enable those closest to operations to continuously make improvements with no-code app editing and edge connectivity with fit-for-purpose permissions and governance.
Is Tulip a Next-Gen MES? No, it is a platform that can do much more.
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Digital Work Instructions
Error-proof tasks with a single, intuitive workflow with dynamic work instructions, connections to external systems, edge connectivity, and cameras.
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Production Visibility & Alerts
Visualize everything going in your operations, in your facility, and across your operations. Trigger and manage alerts and Andon lights.
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Order & Material Tracking
Track information for jobs, work orders, BOMs. Scheduling orders and optimizing flow. Manage goods receipt, warehousing, and final dispatch.
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Genealogy and Traceability
Record information at steps throughout the process. Create your electronic history records for products and batches.
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Quality & Security Systems
Execute against the quality management systems. Track and mitigate deviations and exceptions.
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Machine Monitoring and Management
Connect to networked and stranded machines to monitor statuses and track KPIs. Assign and track regular and unplanned maintenance.
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Operator Training
Whether you’re training a new employee or introducing a process, product, or tool, build a firm foundation for your team with intuitive and effective training apps.
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Compliance Audits
Improve your factory’s safety, organization, and lean compliance with apps that standardize audit procedures, track progress, and promote accountability.
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Lean Manufacturing
Digitize your lean manufacturing practices, collect and analyze data in real-time, and remove communication barriers.
How are companies leveraging Tulip?
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Piaggio Fast Forward
See how the team at PFF is developing the processes and systems they need to deliver quality robots to meet increasing demands from consumers.
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DMG Mori with Microsoft
Hear how DMG Mori is enabling creativity and innovation while removing silos across the value chain has helped them transform their operations.
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Medical Devices Manufacturer
Read how a GxP regulated company implemented a next-gen MES at a fraction of the cost at their NPI in a greenfield assembly facility.
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Tulip Named a Challenger in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Manufacturing Execution Systems
In our opinion, the inclusion of Tulip's Frontline Operations Platform is a testament to the market shift towards composable, frontline-driven approaches to MES and operational problem-solving.
Read more about how Tulip's Next-Gen MES approach
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With the Tulip Library, allow those that understand the process best to get to a valuable solution in a fraction of the time and add to it over time. Access industry best practice apps built by subject matter experts with decades of MES experience.
Tulip provides manufacturing solution frameworks via the Tulip Library, but you have the flexibility to configure it to YOUR processes without needing external help or coding expertise.
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The apps and app suites in Tulip are composable and use the same common data structure, meaning that they can be snapped together to build a larger solution.
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With granular permissions and workspaces, central teams can control 3rd-party integration, data structures and formatting, and more while giving local teams the autonomy they need.
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Tulip is trusted by top companies across the world including top pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers. GxP is a top area of focus for Tulip. Tulip is FDA 21 CFR Part 11 / EU GMP Annex 11 compliant, releases GxP features regularly, and uses an ISO 9001:2015 certified QMS. Learn more ⭢
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View the 25+ reviews of Tulip as an MES platform on the Gartner Peer Insights site.
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