[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":27},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-author-joyce":3},[4],{"path":5,"title":6,"date":7,"tags":8,"authors":10,"description":12,"meta":13,"image":26},"\u002Fblog\u002F2026\u002F09\u002Fautomotive-mes","Automotive MES: Buy, Build, or Extend What You Have","2026-09-22",[9],"flowfuse",[11],"joyce","Automotive MES: should you buy, build, or extend it? See how FlowFuse helps multi-site manufacturers close automotive MES gaps without a costly full rebuild.",{"excerpt":14},{"type":15,"value":16},"minimark",[17,22],[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"what-automotive-mes-actually-does","What Automotive MES Actually Does",[23,24,25],"p",{},"A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) sits between two systems every plant already runs. ERP plans production at the scale of days and weeks: what to build, how much, by when. SCADA supervises the equipment below it, collecting tag data from PLCs in real time. MES is the layer in between, taking the ERP plan, dispatching it as work orders, and tracking execution as it happens.","\u002Fblog\u002F2026\u002F09\u002Fimages\u002Fmes-buy-vs-build-vs-extend.png",1790072160830]