MES · SHOP-FLOOR DIGITALISATION
Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Integration
CANS integrates the manufacturing layer between machines and enterprise systems. The focus is practical shop-floor execution: production orders, work-in-progress, machine status, OEE, downtime, traceability, quality information, operator interaction and ERP connectivity.
Where a client already has an MES platform, CANS can engineer the OT integration. Where a lighter manufacturing application is more appropriate, we can implement the required workflow around the actual production process.
Typical Information Flow
ERP / Planning
↓ production order / material context
MES / Manufacturing Layer
↓ routing / work instruction / traceability
SCADA / Edge / PLC
↓ actual machine and process data
Machines / Operators / Quality
Feedback flows upward as actual production, downtime, quality, WIP and completion status.
Manufacturing Functions We Can Integrate
Production execution — work orders, routing, product/recipe context and completion reporting. WIP and traceability — unit, batch, lot or material movement where the process requires it. Performance — OEE, cycle time, throughput, downtime and bottleneck information. Quality — inspection results, reject status, rework and links to AI or machine-vision inspection. Maintenance context — asset state and integration with maintenance workflows where useful.
Brownfield Connectivity
Mixed PLC brands, legacy machines, serial protocols, industrial Ethernet and existing SCADA systems can be brought into a common data architecture.
ERP Integration
Exchange production orders, material context, targets and completion information with ERP through APIs, databases or approved interfaces.
Data for AI and Analytics
A structured MES layer creates the time-aligned production context needed for better anomaly detection, forecasting, optimisation and root-cause analysis.
From Machines, Not From Assumptions
CANS comes from instrumentation, PLC, SCADA, industrial communications and embedded systems. That matters in MES projects because enterprise data is only as reliable as the machine and process data beneath it.
OEE Is a Natural Building Block
Machine state, counts, downtime and quality information collected for OEE can feed MES execution and reporting, avoiding duplicate data paths.