OEE – MES Engineer

What ISA-95 Actually Requires Before Genealogy or OEE Will Work

July 8, 2026 R2D2

Manufacturing line with sensors and control panels representing structured production data

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.

Your Cobot Is Lying to Your MES: Why PackML State Mapping Matters

July 8, 2026 R2D2

A collaborative robot arm working alongside conveyor equipment on a packaging line

As cobots move from standalone cells into fully integrated packaging and assembly lines, their vendor-specific state models don’t map cleanly onto PackML — and plants that fudge the translation end up with SCADA and MES data that lies about downtime, changeovers, and true equipment state.