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Best Manufacturing Execution Systems

Compare the Top Manufacturing Execution Systems as of October 2025

What are Manufacturing Execution Systems?

Manufacturing execution systems (MES) are software solutions designed to monitor, track, and control manufacturing processes on the shop floor. These systems provide real-time visibility into production activities, enabling manufacturers to optimize processes, improve efficiency, and ensure product quality. MES platforms typically include features like production scheduling, inventory management, quality control, equipment monitoring, and data collection. By using MES, manufacturers can streamline operations, reduce downtime, improve resource utilization, and maintain better control over production workflows. Compare and read user reviews of the best Manufacturing Execution systems currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Epicor Kinetic

    Epicor Kinetic

    Epicor Software

    Epicor Kinetic is a global, cloud-focused cognitive ERP solution built for manufacturers, driving profitability through real-time insights, people-centric AI, and seamless collaboration. Positioned at the core of your business applications, Kinetic leverages artificial intelligence to extract maximum value from your enterprise data, processes, and decision-making information. Purposely designed with deep industry expertise, it offers end-to-end capabilities for discrete, make-to-order, and mixed-mode manufacturers in the small and mid-market space. Kinetic supports the needs of leading manufacturers across multiple industries, including Industrial Machinery, Fabricated Metals, Electronics and High Tech, Plastics and Rubber, Automotive, Aerospace and Defense, Medical Device, Consumer Products, Furniture and Fixtures, Measuring and Controlling Devices, and more. Embrace future-ready business, digital transformation, and flexible deployment with this singular, AI-powered ERP solution.
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    MRPeasy

    MRPeasy

    MRPeasy

    MRPeasy helps small manufacturers grow with easy-to-use tools that cover all the essentials they need to manage their production. Having built the first cloud-based MRP platform in 2014, we offer user-friendly software-as-a-service that covers everything from production planning to CRM, skipping all the features that are too complex or irrelevant for small manufacturers. This means smaller manufacturers get access to powerful production planning tools, levelling the playing field with larger competitors. With MRPeasy, you know exactly how much your products cost and when they’re ready, helping you to steer your business effectively. MRPeasy integrates with leading accounting software like QuickBooks and Xero and e-commerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce, providing a comprehensive, fully integrated business management solution.
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    Starting Price: $49.00/month/user
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    Katana Cloud Inventory

    Katana Cloud Inventory

    Katana Cloud Inventory

    Katana's Cloud Inventory Platform gives you a centralized view of your inventory to maintain optimal stock levels across all your locations and efficiently track products available for sale. Easily manage incoming orders from all your sales channels and issue purchase orders directly from Katana to ensure restocking at the right time and in the right quantities. Seamlessly integrate Katana with your e-commerce, accounting, and other business software to automate repetitive tasks and get real-time visibility over your daily operations and business performance. Main features: *Real-time inventory insights *Built-in purchase order management *Omnichannel sales management *Manufacturing operations management *Financial visibility and cloud accounting
    Starting Price: $179/month
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    Tasor Planner
    Tasor Planner is a powerful software solution for advanced planning and scheduling. It automatically generates optimal production plans and schedules, enabling businesses to gain a competitive edge by lowering costs and shortening delivery times. Tasor Planner optimizes production planning even in environments with the most challenging constraints and dependencies, creating accurate and optimal production schedules. Tasor Planner is a perfect fit for companies of all sizes—small, medium, and large enterprises. Adjust the parameters in the Profit Calculator application according to your production needs and calculate the profit increase using Tasor Planner. Tasor Planner allows businesses to consistently meet customer order due dates, even in the most complex cases. With Tasor Planner, it is always possible to know what quantity will be available and when, enabling accurate delivery date estimations.
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    Tactic

    Tactic

    Waterloo Manufacturing Software

    Works with and does not replace your MRP / ERP! TACTIC is highly customizable, advanced planning and manufacturing production scheduling software developed by Waterloo Manufacturing Software. Suitable for discrete and batch industry manufacturers, TACTIC reduces supply and inventory costs while improving customer service. Manufacturers use TACTIC to promise delivery, plan and schedule production, plan material and capacity, and deal with changes and problems. TACTIC s sophisticated scheduling algorithms and what-if features let management teams continuously balance what’s good for business with what’s good for customers. Waterloo Manufacturing Software’s technical consultants provide a number of pre-sale and post-sale services for TACTIC. These services help you both asses the technology and get ever-increasing value from its use in your operations.
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    Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform
    Drive plant floor efficiency with high-resolution visibility, error-proofed control, and a real-time production ecosystem that is connected to your ERP—by design. ERP systems weren’t designed for manufacturing execution. Plant floor information available post-production—or “back-flushed”—doesn’t help you control output at the manufacturing moment. Plex’s Manufacturing Execution Suite (Plex MES) gives you real-time production management so you have up-to-the-second manufacturing data—for end-to-end visibility and closed-loop control. Flexible, configurable, cloud-native solution for ease of deployment, standardization and integration to complement your corporate ERP system. Suite of unified shop floor applications on a common database to eliminate the risk of disruptions or errors due to inter-application integrations. Paperless, easy to use, operator control to increase productivity, and eliminate manual process errors.
    Starting Price: $3000.00 per month
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    Tensoft SemiOps
    Tensoft SemiOps® is designed to easily scale with growth and support the unique manufacturing, supply chain management, and financial accounting needs of high tech businesses, in the cloud. When fabless semiconductor company Luxtera needed an integrated solution to manage their business processes efficiently and scale, they turned to Tensoft SemiOps. Click here to read the case-study and learn the details from the Supply Chain Manager at Luxtera, Renata Villa-Teschler, and their VP of Operations Séamus Daly.
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    Accevo Smart Factory
    Accevo Smart Factory is an all-in-one manufacturing operations platform that empowers factories to eliminate downtime, reduce waste, and accelerate digital transformation. Formerly known as ANT Solutions, Accevo offers intelligent modules for OEE monitoring, MES, MOM, APS, CMMS, QMS, and EMS—providing end-to-end visibility and control over production. The platform helps manufacturers transition to paperless operations while improving efficiency, energy management, and quality control. With cloud and on-premise deployment options, Accevo ensures scalability, security, and flexibility for every industrial environment. Its real-time analytics and AI-ready architecture enable faster decisions, improved productivity, and measurable ROI within weeks. Trusted by global brands like Recaro, Servier, and Fiat, Accevo leads the future of connected, data-driven manufacturing.
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    Protected Flow Manufacturing
    Simplify floor scheduling and support better resource planning with Protected Flow Manufacturing by LillyWorks, a SaaS-based manufacturing execution and planning platform. Protected Flow Manufacturing can easily integrate alongside any existing ERP. With an intuitive system, Protected Flow Manufacturing enables users to achieve maximum ROI by reducing the time their jobs spend waiting. Protected Flow Manufacturing is suitable for small and mid-sized manufacturers or job shops that pursue growth and attract new business.
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    Fulcrum

    Fulcrum

    Fulcrum

    We make software. For manufacturers. Really awesome software. That works well, and is pretty. Why? Faster rockets. Better cars. Cheaper production. What would happen if everything could be made 30% faster, better, stronger? Let's create that future together. Fulcrum, a product by Atlas Solutions, is a SaaS enterprise platform allowing small and mid-sized manufacturers to improve efficiency through workflow optimization and automated data collection. Fulcrum delivers value through a fully digital, paperless workflow leveraging machine learning, automation, predictive analytics, and advanced heuristics to drive throughput and profitability. We're helping manufacturers transition to cutting edge software that lowers the stress of everyday operations, gets more out of good employees, automates the tasks you hate so you can focus on what really matters - customer relationships.
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    Smart Factory

    Smart Factory

    eWorkplace Manufacturing

    Smart Factory is a manufacturing operations management (MOM) solution that empowers manufacturers to optimize operations and increase productivity. Smart Factory MOM is the cloud-based modular, configurable, plug-and-play manufacturing solution that possesses advanced scheduling (APS) and manufacturing execution system (MES) capabilities. It integrates scheduling, production, resource management, training, analytics, and quality management activities in a single solution, enabling manufacturers to optimize their manufacturing workflow. Smart Factory MOM supports more than 100 drivers, 80 devices or brands and 100 communication protocols, enabling automated data capture from machines and other devices and providing seamless connectivity for Industry 4.0.
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