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ORACLE MANUFACTURING
EXECUTION SYSTEM FOR
PROCESS MANUFACTURING
KEY FEATURES
Oracle® Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for Process
ORACLE MES FOR PROCESS
INCLUDES: Manufacturing is an add-on application to Oracle Process
• Instruction-driven, operator- Manufacturing that provides intensive, multifaceted shop floor
friendly user interface
• Electronic Batch Records for
execution capabilities. The application allows process
21 CFR Part 11 Compliance manufacturers to deploy Oracle Process Manufacturing directly on
• Dispensing
• Nonconformance
their shop floors as the manufacturing execution system (MES). For
Management most process manufacturers, this removes the requirement to invest
• Labeling
• Device Integration
in a third party or a homegrown MES system, and helps reduce costs
while eliminating integration and support headaches. MES for
Process Manufacturing eliminates many unnecessary and non-value-
added activities by providing a structured and standards-based shop
floor execution toolset.
MES for Process Manufacturing is designed for use in process
industry plants that are looking to move to electronic batch
recordkeeping or for those that previously may have opted to
purchase a third-party MES. It offers the advantage of providing
true enterprise-wide information from the shop floor to the
boardroom.
Major Features
Process-Driven Operator Workbench
The process in process manufacturing is as important as the material inputs and
outputs. The work orders or batch records are detailed, step-by-step guides, which
lead production operators through the process of making a product. Some steps may
be done at any time, while others must be completed before proceeding. Some
require one or more signatures, while others may not require any formal approval,
but simply an indication that they were completed. Others may require entry of
specific production data, such as quantities, temperature, or pressure and some may
point the operator to perform tasks such as taking quality samples for in-process
testing.
Oracle MES for Process Manufacturing puts all of the information that production
schedulers, supervisors and operators need at their fingertips, and where possible, no
more than one click away. As part of the recipe development, you can create
individual or unit instructions, which can be ordered into reusable procedures.
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Instructions and procedures can have standard operating procedure documents,
images, or any other files associated to them readily accessible to the production
operator during batch processing.
Processing instructions may also have predefined actionable tasks that require
electronic signoff for completion. For example, you may have defined a series of
instructions associated with the runtime activity for a blending operation. One
instruction may tell the operator to take a temperature reading. You can define a
task for that instruction to allow the operator to access the process parameter
window with a single click, and then manually enter or accept the reading directly
from the piece of equipment. You can also require any number electronic signatures
before the process can continue.
Supervisors and schedulers have access to real-time production batch status, down to
the level of instruction completion status so they know precisely what has been done
and what remains to be done for any production batches for which they have
responsibility. A flexible search engine allows the user to quickly bring up the
precise batch or batches in question.
Dispensing
The management of the ingredient dispensing (also known as preweigh) process to
control the measurement, containerization and labeling of precise quantities of
specific materials to the right batch steps prior to, or during the manufacturing
process is a key requirement in many process industries, including pharmaceutical,
biotechnology, food and beverage and chemical manufacturing. This process is
especially critical when working with the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs)
in a drug product formulation (per FDA Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 Part
211.101), with pigments when formulating paints and when working with materials
that may become explosive or otherwise hazardous when not blended in precise
ratios in chemical processing.
The production batch process requires the right materials to be dispensed to
production batch steps with specific quality parameters and in right quantities.
Since the formulation quantities may run into decimals, the accuracy of the
quantities is critical, so standard weigh-scale integration has been provided to
minimize the risk of data entry error. Oracle MES for Process Manufacturing also
provides configurable container and dispensed material holding cage label printing,
which may be automatic or user-initiated.
Dispensing and preweigh must often be done in accordance with documented
standard operating procedures (SOPs) and indication of the satisfactory completion
of the processes may require signoff by one or more individuals, such as the
operator and supervisor. Oracle MES for Process Manufacturing Dispensing
provides dispensing operators with on-line access to up-to-date SOPs, detailed,
acknowledgeable work instructions and electronic signatures, which provides a
configurable level of control and auditability of the completion of the dispensing
process in accordance with current good manufacturing practices.
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Nonconformance Management
Even in the most controlled production environments, unexpected events can happen
that may have direct impact on the manufacturing process and the quality of final
product. Nonconformances that arise need to be tracked and recorded for recording
in the batch record and to be used for analysis by the Quality Department for CAPA
(Corrective Action, Preventive Action) analysis. In order to document a complete
record of a manufacturing batch, evidence of nonconformances must be included in
the control batch record, along with appropriate details of when the event occurred,
the phase of the batch in which it occurred, details of the incident or observation,
level of criticality and required follow-up and signatures by the operator(s) and/or
supervisors.
Oracle MES for Process Manufacturing tracks all manufacturing nonconformances
caused by such things as batch material quantity changes, item substitutions,
resource substitutions, as well as any ad-hoc operator observations, such as a power
interruption. Notification of nonconformances are automatically routed
electronically to those who need to review and approve the continued processing or
hold of the batch and all nonconformance details, including electronic signature
information, are logged in the control batch record electronic document.
Electronic Master and Control Batch Record
Most manufacturing industries keep detailed paper records of their manufacturing
records and some industries such as pharmaceutical and food and beverage
manufacturers are mandated to do so by federal regulations (per FDA Code of
Federal Regulations Title 21 Part 211.186 / 211.188). Oracle MES for Process
Manufacturing provides comprehensive electronic Master Batch Record (MBR) and
Control Batch Record (CBR) documents, which contain all of the critical batch
information from the product recipe (compiled in the MBR) and each product batch
(compiled in the CBR). You can even have the batch records automatically
translated into other languages.
Labeling and Device Integration
Labeling - Labels are used extensively to mark contents of containers in process
industries. They are created and read, often via barcode readers, in the context of
many business events, including dispensing, in-process sampling and when
intermediate and finished products are output from production batches.
The application can be configured to print labels automatically based on a trigger
from a business event, or label printing can be manually initiated. Reprint labels
with full traceability. The reprint event and print count indicate the number of times
each label was printed. Label content is also configurable. You may configure
electronic signatures to control who has authority to print labels.
Device Integration - Integrate shop floor equipment such as manufacturing
equipment and weigh scales in the preweigh and dispensing process with the
manufacturing execution system. This improves the speed and efficiency with
which actual data is captured during the manufacturing process, increases the
amount of data that you can capture, and removes the risk of operator data entry
errors.
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Oracle MES for Process Manufacturing provides the capability to capture data
directly from shop floor devices in the dispensing business flow and during batch
processing for in-process equipment data capture.
Oracle MES for Process Manufacturing Key Benefits
• Board Room to Shop Floor Visibility –Why use disparate MES systems and
integrate each one to your ERP backbone? With Oracle, you have one source
of truth, data model, technology and system to validate.
• Process Repeatability – This is key in validated systems. Consider the
potential for error involved in assembling a paper batch record for every
production order or batch. A fully electronic system that is validated assembles
the correct components 100 percent of the time.
• Enforce Best Practice SOPs – Build controls into the system. For example,
make sure you have collected samples and test results were acceptable, before
completing a production batch. Make sure you have collected the appropriate
signoffs before moving on. Oracle enforces these controls systematically,
rather than having to rely on procedural controls.
• Reduce Labor – Consider dispensing: in a paper system, you need double
signoff. The weighing operator signs for their manual weight entries, and
another person signs that they checked the entries. With a validated electronic
system, the manual entry signature is just not needed. It’s a new paradigm in
the electronic world.
• Eliminate Massive Amounts of Paper – Benefits are obvious when you consider
that a batch record may be 200 or more pages, and has to be saved for seven
years after product obsolescence in most pharmaceutical industries.
• Advanced Search - Information on paper is static and standalone. Analysis to
find trends across a multitude of paper records is tedious, time consuming and
complex. Analysis across a large set of records may be impossible. Enterprise
systems that run on advanced relational database management systems excel at
searching data records for the purpose of finding trends and patterns across
large numbers of records.
• Eliminate Errors – Eliminate duplicate entry of production data. Put the data
entry in the hands of the product operators with easy to use interfaces. Achieve
a single point of data entry.
• Lower Training Costs – The application drives the behavior of the operator,
eliminating the need to rely on manual procedures.
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KEY BENEFITS
Oracle E-Business Suite—The Complete Solution
• Board room to shop floor Oracle E-Business Suite enables companies to efficiently manage customer
visibility
processes, manufacture products, ship orders, collect payments, and more—all from
• Process repeatability
applications that are built on unified information architecture. This information
• Enforce best practice
SOPs architecture provides a single definition of your customers, suppliers, employees,
• Reduce labor - remove a and products—all important aspects of your business. Whether you implement one
level of approvals
module or the entire Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite enables you to share unified
• Eliminate massive
amounts of paper
information across the enterprise so you can make smarter decisions with better
• Advanced search information.
capability
• Eliminate errors
• Lower training costs
• Lower cost of compliance
RELATED PRODUCTS
Oracle Manufacturing
Execution System for
Process Manufacturing is
designed to work together
with the following products:
• Oracle Advanced
Planning and Scheduling
• Oracle E-Records
• Oracle Inventory
• Oracle Process
Manufacturing Process
Execution
• Oracle Process
Manufacturing Product
Development
• Oracle Process
Manufacturing Quality
• Oracle MSCA
RELATED SERVICES
The following services are
available from Oracle Support
Services:
• Oracle E-Business Suite
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