Greenfield MES Integration for a Deli Meat Plant — Early & Under Budget
Coordinating multiple OEMs, a new MES, and a new plant — and finishing ahead of schedule. The trick was nailing the interface specs before anyone wrote any code.
A major food client was building a greenfield deli meat plant and wanted MES integration done right the first time. The risk: multiple OEMs, each writing custom control software, all expected to feed and obey the same Manufacturing Execution System. Without a common spec, every cell becomes its own integration project.
The challenge
Coordinate the design and documentation of OEM equipment and MES interfaces — early enough that nobody had to rework anything later.
What we did
- Carved the plant into process areas aligned to MES use cases.
- Wrote MES-to-data-concentrator interface documents for every area.
- Wrote OEM-to-data-concentrator interface documents for every area.
- Built the data concentrator and FAT documentation early so OEMs could test against it during their own builds.
- Implemented the data-concentrator-to-MES integration on an MSSQL/PLC appliance.
The outcome
The plant started up ahead of schedule and under budget. The work that made that possible happened months before anyone broke ground — in specifications, not in code.
Key Results
Early
Plant Startup
Under
Original Budget
Multi-OEM
Coordinated Cleanly
Technology Stack
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