Matt Barber

Best Quotes

“It's really hard to know where to start. I'd probably leave it there. It's hard, but it's worth it.”

MES Matters with Matt Barber

“You can't have a smart factory without an MES or MOM type application, but you can't have a smart factory with just that application either — it needs the other applications in the ecosystem to work together with it.”

MES Matters with Matt Barber

“The MES market historically, and still quite a lot today, is: let's go and code an MES. I wanted to make sure we had a really big push for moving as close as we can to an out-of-the-box configurable system.”

MES Matters with Matt Barber

“It's a huge challenge in every project. There needs to be the vision from the top, strong change management, senior leadership sponsorship — but it also needs strong voices from operations, included on the journey, not just given a system at the end.”

MES Matters with Matt Barber

“The most interesting thing is when you can capture downtime at every step of the process as it's moving through the line, because you can then start to see whether the bottleneck was stopped because of its own problem, or because it was starved or blocked.”

MES Matters with Matt Barber