Scenario: You work in the life sciences industry and get an opportunity to help your employer choose the best MES Solution for your business. If you could ask vendors within the industry a select set of questions about their products for a side-by-side comparison… What questions would you like answered?
Selecting the best MES Solution for your Life Sciences Business. What questions would you ask?
1.) What are the costs for licenses, number of users, support, etc…?
2.) How do users authenticate and can user management be tied to AD?
3.) Can it be deployed in the cloud?
4.) What cloud vendors have you worked with?
5.) How quickly can it be deployed?
6.) Are there internal configuration management and migration tools available and do they come with the product?
7.) Does it comes with standard reports and what are they?
8.) How is configuration performed and how are workflows built?
9.) Are there any tools for requirements gathering, traceability, and testing?
10.) Can the MES integrate with our current systems and how? What file formats can it ingest and what protocols can we use, .csv, specific XML schemas, OPC, etc…?
11.) How quickly can we configure a scale? Lets see a demo…
12.) Does the system have RbE and if so, how is it configured and reported?