From the 4–20 mA loop to the ERP that reads it.
Most plants hire a controls integrator, an MES vendor and an IT contractor, then spend years sorting out the gaps between them. We've done all three jobs, on drillships, in breweries and dairies, and in medical device plants on three continents, so one team can see your project through every layer.
Six kinds of work, and most projects need more than one.
An OEE rollout needs PLC changes. An MES needs its ERP interface. The ERP report needs a historian that was set up properly. We take on the whole chain instead of handing it off halfway.
click any card for detailsWhy we don't stop at one layer.
Projects usually go wrong at the handoffs. The controls integrator passes the job to the MES vendor, the MES vendor passes it to IT, and each one assumes someone else owns the tag names. When the same people work across all of it, those assumptions get checked before startup instead of after.
- The people writing the PLC code also know what the MES expects from it
- Data gets modeled once, near the machine, and reused everywhere above it
- Designs that live within OT constraints and still pass IT's security review
The industries we know.
Each one is here because we've done paid project work in it. The processes differ a lot; the approach doesn't. We learn how the process runs before we change how it's controlled.
click an industry to see our experienceWhy “DigitalThreads”.
A digital thread is the record that follows a product through the plant: the sensor reading, the PLC step it triggered, the lot it went into, the operator who signed for it, and the ERP transaction at the end. When a link in that chain is missing, simple questions get hard, like which units came off a bad batch.
DigitalThreads grew out of more than 20 years of building those links one layer at a time: power management code for drillships in a Chinese shipyard, SCADA and CIP for breweries and dairies, and MES rollouts for medical device plants in five countries, on cloud and on-prem Kubernetes. Having done each layer ourselves, we build every piece knowing who has to use it next.
Where the work was
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