Non Sequiturs and Misdirection in MES

The whole point of MES's existence is precisely to separate, among other things, dispatch, night scheduling, activity management, whip execution and quality operations from the cost center focused financial systems layer. There are exactly zero off the shelf MES solutions that can be fully integrated to a complete organization without requiring the business to change in some way to fit into the solution. If you install a SCADA solution, what changes? Zero. It's data acquisition, supervision and control of what is there. What we showed here was less than $40,000 total cost of ownership in about 12 weeks. Today, three years later, total spend is less than $1 million for the 100% functional coverage