The core strategic message driving the MES Expertise Center focuses on the state-of-the-art, the evolution path and the vision of SIMATIC IT portfolio, the Siemens MES offering, in close combination with Microsoft technologies.

Today SIMATIC IT is plant centric, developed at plant level, built upon manufacturing issues and interoperability demand, fully based on Microsoft technology.

Tomorrow SIMATIC IT will be in line with the next generation of Microsoft technology, addressing future manufacturing demands such as Real Time Visibility and Collaboration (plant visibility).
In a global vision SIMATIC IT becomes an integral part of the manufacturing supply chain, linking Plant-IT to Manufacturing-IT (plant enterprise).