Rockwell Automation’s July 2026 survey of 1,560 manufacturing decision-makers across 17 countries found that 93% of manufacturers already run MES software. Only 28% have it enterprise-wide, just 23% fully integrated across ERP, PLM, quality, and OT.
This is a vendor survey, not independent research – but its own numbers back the reading. 44% rank integration as the top MES buying requirement, 33% call it their biggest data integration problem.
“MES adoption is no longer the hurdle, but enterprise scale is,” said Anthony Murphy of Rockwell. Govindaraju and Putra reached the same ranking a decade earlier, with no stake in the answer. [Read more…] about The Real Bottleneck in Low-Code MES Software isn’t the Code