Manufacturing Automation Platform
A shop-floor design connecting machine data, work orders, and quality checks into live production visibility.
This is a solution blueprint authored by our engineering team. It describes how we would approach this problem — it is not a record of a delivered client project, and the expected benefits below are design goals rather than measured results.
Production status is often known only at shift end, when paper job cards are collected and entered. Downtime causes are recorded from memory, scrap is attributed loosely, and planners schedule against numbers that are already hours out of date.
A manufacturing execution layer where work orders are dispatched digitally to stations, operators confirm progress as it happens, and machine signals are captured directly — giving planners live status instead of an end-of-shift reconstruction.
An edge collection service ingests machine signals and operator confirmations, buffering locally so a network outage never stops the line. A work-order service manages routing, station sequencing, and status transitions. Time-series storage holds machine telemetry while relational storage holds orders and quality records. OEE, downtime, and scrap analytics are computed from the same event stream.
- Live production status instead of end-of-shift reporting
- Downtime attributed to specific causes and machines
- OEE measured from captured events rather than estimates
- Quality checks recorded against specific batches
- Planners scheduling against current shop-floor reality
Edge services run per line and buffer locally, so plants operate independently of central availability. Time-series data is downsampled on a retention schedule, and additional lines or plants are added without redesign.
- Segmented OT/IT network boundaries
- Read-only integration with machine controllers where possible
- Signed firmware and authenticated edge agents
- Role-based access separating operator and supervisor actions
- Local buffering to survive network partition without data loss
Estimated 16–20 weeks for one production line as a pilot