Where ProAlert Fits in Manufacturing Operations Management

6 minute read Written for operations directors, IT leads and anyone comparing MOM, MES and CMMS options

The short answer

MOM is the name for the operational layer between the business systems and the machines: running production, maintenance, quality and inventory on the floor. ProAlert™ describes itself as a single-database, single-login operations platform for asset-intensive manufacturers. It runs a significant share of the functions associated with MOM today, strongest in maintenance, daily management, performance and response, but it does not claim to cover every MOM function, and this page lists what it does not do.

01The category

What MOM means

The ISA-95 standard (Enterprise-Control System Integration) describes manufacturing operations in four areas that sit below the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system and above machine control: production operations, maintenance operations, quality operations and inventory operations. MOM is the umbrella term for software that manages that layer.

Two familiar terms sit inside it. An MES (Manufacturing Execution System) usually concentrates on production execution: dispatching work, tracking production, genealogy. A CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) concentrates on maintenance. Many plants run several of these products side by side and connect them.

02Coverage

How ProAlert maps to the four areas

ProAlert today, by ISA-95 operations area
Area	What ProAlert runs today	What it does not do
Maintenance operations	Full CMMS: work orders with SLA (Service Level Agreement) tracking, preventive maintenance on time, meter, condition or event triggers, versioned work procedures, 5-Why root cause analysis, ISO 14224 failure classification, maintenance parts purchasing and storerooms, ISO 55001 asset management	Purchasing beyond maintenance parts; that stays in the ERP
Production operations	Per-asset OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), shifts and crews as data, a live floor schedule, product and part masters, routes, die-changeover analysis, shop-floor response coordination, A-FMDS daily management, Kaizen, standard work	It is not positioned as a full MES, and recipe management is not available today
Quality operations	Nonconformance register raised from audit findings, failed inspections, scrap thresholds and quality calls, corrective-action cards, reject codes, scrap cost capture, governed document control	SPC (Statistical Process Control) is not available today
Inventory operations	Material lot register with ledger, lot capture at pick, line delivery, production lot genealogy, where-used reports	Finished-goods warehousing and shipping stay in the ERP or a WMS (Warehouse Management System)

Alongside those four areas, ProAlert also runs video management, industrial IoT (Internet of Things) through EdgeSense, a native mobile app, workforce operations and safety broadcast, on the same database.

03Why one database

What it means to run these functions on one database

Most MOM deployments are assembled from several products, each with its own asset list, users and audit log, joined by integrations. ProAlert runs its functions on one database with one asset model, one organizational graph and one audit trail, so a downtime event, the work order that repairs it, the nonconformance it causes and the OEE it costs are the same data. The One System, Not Four page explains what that saves.

ProAlert connects to an existing ERP, MES or BI (Business Intelligence) stack through a documented REST API (Application Programming Interface), so it can take the operations layer for the functions above without displacing systems a plant wants to keep.

04FAQ

Questions buyers ask next

Is ProAlert a MOM system?

ProAlert describes itself as a single-database, single-login operations platform for asset-intensive manufacturers. It covers a significant share of the functions associated with Manufacturing Operations Management, strongest in maintenance, daily management, performance analytics and shop-floor response, and it states plainly which MOM functions it does not provide today, such as SPC and recipe management.

What is the difference between MOM, MES and CMMS?

MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) is the umbrella for software that manages production, maintenance, quality and inventory operations on the floor, as described by ISA-95. An MES (Manufacturing Execution System) concentrates on production execution, and a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) concentrates on maintenance. ProAlert includes a full CMMS and production performance functions on one database, but it is not a full MES.

Does ProAlert replace an ERP or an MES?

It does not replace an ERP, and it is not a full MES. It connects to both through a documented REST API, and it can take over the maintenance, daily management, performance, quality nonconformance and response functions that plants often run in separate products.

Does ProAlert include SPC?

Not today. ProAlert does not offer SPC (Statistical Process Control) as a current capability. Quality in ProAlert today means nonconformance management, corrective-action cards, reject codes, scrap cost capture and governed document control.

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