Manufacturing operations management (MOM) has evolved considerably, and now encompasses a broad collection of what were once individually targeted applications to solve very specific manufacturing problems. Today, the trend is toward larger integrated suites of application functionality.

These suites come in the form of extensions to enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms, as well as part of comprehensive MOM software and manufacturing execution system (MES) platforms. Even with this evolution, the names and acronyms describing each application still exist, which can make staring at a page of today’s MOM applications feel a little like getting lost in a bowl of alphabet soup.

Making sense of the MOM application landscape

For those who are new to the MOM space, this broad range of acronyms can be daunting. To help with this, LNS has created a list of definitions you’re likely to come across. They are grouped with the associated processes in level three of the infographic in figure 1.

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