Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) | Industrial IT Systems

Capabilities

  • Formula Management / Recipe Management

  • Detailed Planning, Scheduling & Dispatching to Process Control Systems (Downloads to PLC / SCADA)

  • Blending Functions & Management

  • Batch Execution & Management

  • Production Tracking, Quality Tracking & Deviation Monitoring

  • Inventory Tracking & Accounting

  • Production Accounting (aka Yield Accounting), Mass Balancing & Data Reconciliation

  • Delay Accounting (aka Downtime and Asset Utilisation Monitoring) / Loss Accounting

  • Traceability / Genealogy

  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Monitoring

  • Integration between MES layer (Operations layer) and Business Layer (ERP)

  • Integration between MES layer (Operations layer) and Controls Layer (PLC / HMI / SCADA)

  • Operations Data Collection from Control Systems (PLC / SCADA) and Site based Historians, into Centralised / Enterprise Data Historian

  • Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) & Integrating LIMS with MES

  • IT / OT convergence

  • Electronic Operations Log

  • Operational Workflow Management

  • Production / Operations Reporting & KPI Management

Note : The above capabilities are aligned to ISA-95 Standards, and enablers for Industry 4.0 strategy.

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Service Offerings

In this domain, we are able to support our Customers, with the following service offerings, so as to suit their specific business situation & need.


Note: The term ‘Solution’ collectively refers to Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) / Industrial IT Systems, in the below list.

  1. Delivering a brand-new Solution [If the processes are currently manual (or) If the asset is a New Production Facility]

  2. Uplifting / Modernising the existing Solution (Example: Legacy / Custom Solutions, migrated into ‘Industry Standard’ Solution)

  3. Adding New Functionalities into the existing Solution (if there are functionality gaps)

  4. Extending the existing Solution into New Production Lines or New Production Facility

  5. Supporting the customer organisation for Enterprise-wide Standardization Initiatives / Solution Roll-outs

  6. Continuous Improvements & Fine-Tuning as required in the existing Solution

Note : In addition to the above, we will be also able to do pure resource augmentation (Specialist skills supply, Project Management support etc), in the event, customer’s team prefers it (for assisting those MES / Industrial IT projects, directly managed and delivered by their own in-house team).

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Typical activities we normally do (as part of our service offerings)

Having noted the above two sections, the following constitutes the set of work-activities, our team normally carries out in a ‘typical’ MES / Industrial IT project (medium to large scale), if it is managed & delivered by us (However this list could vary depending on the scope of project, business need and model of engagement with our Customers).


  1. Identification of Project Stakeholders & Understanding their Roles & Responsibilities

  2. Engagement with Stakeholders, understanding existing Business Processes / Workflows and Identifying Business Pain Areas and Drivers of Change (Establish Problem statement)

  3. Understanding and firming up the Project End State Objectives

  4. Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Validation & Getting Customer’s Sign-Off

    1. This also includes gathering surrounding information / facts & figures around the project environment

    2. The deliverables from this activity are (1) Business Requirements artefact (2) Solution / Technical Requirements artefact

  5. Current State Evaluation (As-Is) | Future State Definition (To-Be) | Gap Analysis between the two states

  6. Site Audits | Assessments to understand project complexities; Risk Identification & Establish Mitigation Measures

  7. Defining the Scope of delivery of the Project, through a Scope-of-Works (SOW) artefact

  8. Engaging with / managing Technology Product Vendors and other Service Partners

  9. Product / Technology Evaluation (against the Business & Technical Requirements)

  10. Building of Prototypes / Proof-of-Concept (POC), and Delivery of Demos (where necessary)

  11. Preparing the Delivery Project Schedule (Tasks, Timelines, Resources and Inter-dependencies)

  12. Defining Implementation Strategy: - (a) Implementation Planning (b) Defining Work Break-Down Structure -WBS (c) Develop Project Management Plan (PMP)

  13. Solution Architecting and Detailed Design: - Few of design deliverables as below (but not limited to)

    1. Functional Design Specifications

    2. Solution Architecture Diagram

    3. Interfaces to MES from other systems such as Control Systems, RFID, Barcode readers, ERP, LIMS etc

    4. Hardware Bill-of-Materials

    5. Software Bill-of-Materials (Licences)

    6. Programming approach for Custom components

    7. Reports Design

  14. Procurement activities (of Hardware, Software and other supplies from respective vendors)

  15. Solution Build / Development / Configurations: - This includes but not limited to

    1. Standard Out-of-Box Configurations in the COTS package

    2. Configuration Data loading / Population

    3. Interfaces Development

    4. Developing the changes / modifications required in interfacing systems (such as ERP, LIMS, Control Systems etc)

    5. Reports Development

  16. Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT)

  17. Site Installation / Implementation / Commissioning activities (Including Systems Integration and related Deployments)

  18. Site Acceptance Testing (SAT)

  19. Identify SAT Issues and get them resolved & reach Solution Acceptance stage

  20. End User Training, and Transition to Operations & On-going Support Team (including delivering AS-BUILT Documentation)

  21. Project Close out

Note : Our supply also includes Project Management Efforts from Start to Finish for the above.


Wherever necessary, we will be able to support the customer’s in-house teams, on the following preliminary / early-stage works, for the Project to get off-the ground.

  1. Pre- Feasibility / Feasibility Studies

  2. Developing Business Case & Project Justifications

  3. Securing Project Funding & necessary Approvals, and facilitate progress towards Project Execution phase

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