Increasing competitiveness is today a must for manufacturing companies. Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is the key element to guarantee the integration of all components, ensuring optimal quality and production efficiency across all global facilities.
To remain competitive in terms of manufacturing profitability, equipment efficiency, regulatory compliance and production flexibility, end users choose to invest in Manufacturing Execution Systems. Therefore MES becomes not only a strategic issue but a necessity.

Siemens, supported by Microsoft, has created the MES Expertise Center, an initiative for promoting the use of MES, for easing new technology penetration and for supporting new standards as well as involving international research centers and universities.

The MES Expertise Center is located in Genoa (Italy), the headquarter of Siemens's worldwide MES operations, in the beautiful environment of the old harbor "Porto Antico". The MES Expertise Center is Siemens and Microsoft's answer to market needs representing a wide range of current innovations, from both a technological and an application standpoint, culminating in a unique location.
The center is designed as a Center of Excellence where end-users, system integrators and software companies can access state-of-the-art solutions and technologies for the industrial IT and MES environments. In fact, they are invited to visit the MES Expertise Center for discussing with the highest Siemens and Microsoft experts on IT & technology about their specific manufacturing issues in order to find consistent and dedicated solutions.