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MES and ERP integration connects what is planned to what is actually made: work orders reach the line, and counts, downtime, scrap and material use flow back without anyone re-typing them.
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MES & ERP integration

What It Is

The ERP knows orders, stock and costs. The machines know what really happened. In between there is often paper, spreadsheets and phone calls. A manufacturing execution layer - a full MES or a focused set of apps - closes that gap.

Typical starting points are live OEE with downtime reasons, electronic work orders and job cards, and automatic production and consumption bookings into the ERP. A clean data model makes each next step easier.

How It Works

The system from the sensor to the people who act on it. Every project is sized to the site, but the layers stay the same.

  1. Level 1-2

    Machines & PLCs

    Counts, states and alarms collected automatically from controllers.

  2. Connect

    Data layer

    OPC UA, MQTT and a unified namespace give every value a clear name.

  3. Level 3

    MES apps

    Work orders, OEE, downtime reasons, quality checks and material bookings.

  4. Level 4

    ERP

    Orders down, confirmations, consumption and scrap up, through APIs.

  5. Insight

    Reports

    Shift, line and plant dashboards everyone reads the same way.

Key Technologies

The protocols, standards and components we work with on this use case.

Architecture

  • ISA-95
  • B2MML
  • Unified namespace
  • OPC UA
  • MQTT

ERP

  • SAP (IDoc / OData)
  • Oracle
  • Odoo
  • ERPNext
  • Tally
  • REST APIs

MES functions

  • OEE
  • Downtime reasons
  • Work orders
  • Recipe management
  • Material genealogy

Typical Deliverables

What a project usually hands over. We agree the exact scope with you before work starts.

  • Current-state map of systems and paper flows
  • Data model and integration design
  • Machine connectivity
  • MES apps or configured MES modules
  • ERP interfaces, tested end to end
  • Dashboards and user training
The practice behind it: Technology Services

Where It Applies

Industries where this use case answers a problem we see often. Each links back to the sector page.

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