Part data integration in the Shop Floor Digital Twin: Mobile and cloud technologies to enable a manufacturing execution system

•Mobile and cloud computing are advantageous to use in a smart factory environment.•A mobile Android OS based manufacturing execution system (MES) is proposed.•The information generated in the mobile MES is combined with data from MTConnect.•Valuable information to create a factory digital twin is gathered using the MES.•The concept was tested in a small manufacturing facility.