A process manufacturer relying on custom MES extensions and spreadsheet-driven maintenance workflows
The client is a process manufacturing organisation operating production environments that depend on custom Manufacturing Execution System (MES) extensions and spreadsheet-driven maintenance workflows. As operational complexity increased, the organisation needed to modernise its manufacturing applications, improve maintenance visibility, and create more consistent, scalable processes without disrupting critical production operations
The process manufacturer relied on custom MES extensions and spreadsheet-driven maintenance workflows
Maintenance work orders, spare-part records and failure history were fragmented across multiple systems and spreadsheets, limiting visibility and creating additional manual effort.
Teceze approached the transformation with a modular, automation-led strategy: re-engineering high-value manufacturing workflows, improving shop-floor usability, creating reusable integrations and embedding DevSecOps practices to deliver consistent releases across plants.
From tightly coupled applications to a modular and governed delivery model, the transformation included:
Re-engineered production orders, downtime, quality events, work orders and spare-parts requests into modular services.
Introduced responsive web and mobile applications with offline-tolerant data capture for environments with intermittent connectivity.
Connected ERP, MES, historian, laboratory and asset-management systems through APIs and event-driven integration patterns.
Implemented automated testing, versioned configurations, database migration and controlled release promotion across plants.
With multiple plants depending on consistent production and maintenance applications, governance focused on controlled releases, automated quality checks and configuration consistency. This helped reduce deployment risk while enabling faster and more predictable plant rollouts.
| Capability | Control | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Application Development | Modular services & responsive applications | Flexible and scalable plant workflows |
| Integration | APIs & event-driven patterns | Consistent system-to-system connectivity |
| Quality & Security | Automated testing & DevSecOps | Reduce post-release defects and deployment risk |
| Release Management | Versioned configurations & controlled promotion | Consistent deployment across plants |
“The modernised platform has given our teams a more consistent and scalable way to manage production and maintenance workflows. Reducing change lead times, improving release quality and establishing a complete audit trail gives us greater confidence to introduce improvements across our plants while maintaining operational control.”
— Representative client perspective
The engagement is delivered through a coordinated application modernisation model. Teceze provides application engineering, modular architecture, integration, DevSecOps and release automation capabilities, while the manufacturer provides plant and process expertise, operational priorities and production oversight to ensure the solution aligns with real-world manufacturing requirements.
With the core workflows modernised and a more consistent delivery foundation established, the focus shifts to expanding adoption across plants while sustaining release quality, traceability and operational continuity.