Agile transition of a production control system (mes)
Challenge
Task
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agile transition of a distributed production network‘s production control system (MES)
Objective
- enablement to Industry 4.0 use cases
- reduction of very high operational expenses
Framework
- very high degree of automatization
- 12 factories in 6 EU countries
- 24/7 operation must be maintained
- pre-existing MES is a highly integrated, in-house development (code base c, among others)
Solution
- status quo analysis and development of a transition strategy
- identification of matching technologies with consideration of functional and non-functional requirements
- establishment of an edge/cloud architecture on the basis ofstandard platform and software components (microservices)
Benefits
- modular architecture sets the right course for growth and innovation as well as new prospects for I 4.0 use cases
- orchestration of a customized solution based on standard components
- holistic support for the long-term transition process
- this approach facilitates fast commissioning of new locations and profitable operations of existing locations
Technologies
- Messagebroker (Rabbit MQ)
- Java
- Python
- Docker
- Kubernetes