Rockwell now owns three overlapping MES products. Here’s a practitioner framework for deciding which one — if any — actually fits your line, instead of defaulting to the badge on your drives.
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The bottleneck in closed-loop predictive maintenance isn’t the vibration or thermal model — it’s whether MES can supply enough context to turn an alert into a work order a technician can actually execute.
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GE Proficy has added agentic AI orchestration features to its 2026 product roadmap. Here’s a vendor-neutral way to figure out what actually works with your existing data model versus what’s still marketing.
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VDA 5050 v2.1 has moved from pilot curiosity to procurement requirement, letting plants mix AMR vendors on one control layer — but the spec only covers the wire protocol, not the hard parts your MES still has to solve.
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If a customer or auditor is going to ask for a trace report before your genealogy rebuild is even scoped, here’s how to get lot-level traceability working with what you already have.
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Genealogy and OEE don’t fail because of bad software — they fail because the PLC and SCADA tags never captured the attributes ISA-95 assumes exist. Here’s the object model, worked through a single production order.
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Choosing between batch-level and serialized unit-level genealogy isn’t a data modeling detail — it’s a bet on your regulatory exposure and recall costs that’s brutally expensive to unwind later.
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Getting Sparkplug B data onto the bus was phase one. Phase two — structuring that data so a predictive quality model can actually trust it — is where most plants are stalling now.
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ISA-95, also known as the International Society of Automation standard, is a comprehensive framework that provides guidelines for integrating different systems and processes within the manufacturing industry. The standard focuses on improving communication, data exchange, and interoperability between various levels of an organization, such as the control level, operations level, and business level. The ISA-95 standard is divided into a hierarchical model that consists of four levels: ISA-95 provides a common language and set of guidelines for data exchange and integration between these levels. It enables manufacturers to integrate different…
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