Between the shopfloor and the MES there is a set of decisions that has to be made on every batch. Who reviews a machine’s batch report, and who approves it. Which approved recipe version reached which machine, and how that was confirmed. Whether the values in a report are the ones the PLC produced or a reconstruction of them.
Without a system that owns those decisions, they still get made, just not in one place. Operators move between HMIs to find what a batch requires. Engineering maintains per-machine reports and, where a native report cannot be reached, reports are calculated from process values, which is a potential GMP risk. QA reviews complete batch records because there is no reliable basis for reviewing less.
What follows is what changes when one system owns this layer instead.
What you will find in the Three-Pager
Capturing shopfloor data is the first step. Gaps remain between the machine and a validated record, and the three-pager covers the three that matter most:
- Completeness
- Data modeling and contextualization
- GMP lifecycle
See where common shopfloor data architectures fall short, and how MePIS closes each gap.
