MES Performance and Scalability Test Report was released by Critical Manufacturing

When selecting a system for applications that can potentially expand, manufacturers need assurance that their manufacturing execution software can cope with future flow changes, automation levels, complexity or volume growth. They need to know that they can add hardware nodes as needed, without risking production downtime or other negative impacts on an urgent scale-up. They also need assurance that the scale-up will not require incurring exorbitant additional expenses such as expensive equipment purchases.

Helping manage complex state changes, material flows and production parameters is the job of the MES system. Performing it effectively could require the granularity to perform transactions faster than 1/100 of a second. To test the performance and scalability of its cmNavigo MES software on hardware typically found on the plant floor rather than in high end test labs, Critical Manufacturing engineers programmed multiple test clients to perform a specified transaction set on a single application server. They then increased the number of application servers from one to four and measured the API transactional writes to each. ...

The complete article and details on the full test report from Critical Manufacturing, titled "Affordable MES. Performance and Scalability for Time-Critical Industry Environments", are available here: http://goo.gl/UPZAMD