Healthcare and Life Sciences refer to products and services that are aimed at improving human health and well-being. This category includes markets that focus on healthcare delivery and operations, digital health and biotechnology research - forming a dynamic ecosystem driven by innovation, regulation, and patient needs.
Gartner defines manufacturing execution systems as a specialist class of production-oriented software that manages, monitors and synchronizes the execution of real-time physical processes involved in transforming raw materials into intermediate and/or finished goods. These systems coordinate the execution of work orders with production scheduling and enterprise-level systems like ERP, product life cycle management and quality management systems. MES applications also provide feedback on process performance, and support component and material-level traceability, genealogy and integration with process history, where required.