MES Application Engineering
Manufacturing execution on the plant floor: work order execution, production tracking, and material genealogy, tied to the systems already running.
MES sits between the control layer and the business systems. It is where a work order becomes a run, a run becomes a record, and that record has to stand up to an audit years later. We engineer that layer on the AVEVA (Wonderware) MES stack, the same platform our SCADA, HMI, and historian work is built on.
- Work order execution: routing and operation definition, run start and stop, and enforcement of the sequence operators are meant to follow.
- Production tracking: actual against planned by line, shift, and product, with downtime and scrap reasons captured at the point they occur.
- Material genealogy and traceability: lot and batch consumption recorded forward and backward, so a recall question is answered from data rather than from paper.
- Electronic work instructions: the current revision presented at the station, with sign-off recorded against the operation.
- ERP and plant-floor integration: order download and confirmation upload, built on the same OT/IT patterns as our integration work. We implement web services and customer-specific APIs.
- Mobile worker support: we supplement out-of-the-box MES functionality with custom add-ons for plant-floor mobile and roaming workers, offline data entry, and remote reporting.
- Migration and modernization: moving existing Wonderware MES applications forward, and replacing the spreadsheet and paper steps that survived the last project.
MES overlaps with OEE and with quality. Where the question is equipment loss, see asset utilization and equipment efficiency. Where it is process deviation, see process quality control.