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Future-proofing manufacturing facilities
In a rapidly-evolving technological and business landscape, manufacturers must ensure their systems and facilities can adapt to change rather than becoming obsolete.
Future-proofing requires both interoperability with existing and emerging systems, and adaptability to support new tools, processes and production topologies as requirements evolve.
“ The concept of the‘ autonomous factory’, I believe, is our future”
lurii Pylypenko, Founder and CEO, OLSOM
The interoperability imperative Modern factory software landscapes sometimes comprise dozens of applications operating across operational technology( OT) and information technology( IT) levels of the ISA-95 Enterprise Model. For data-driven manufacturing, semantic interoperability between enterprise applications is fundamental to resilience and scalability.
As Iurii explains:“ You cannot build robust real-time control and optimisation based on data from isolated applications”. MES ' s require resource information and production plans from enterprise resource planning( ERP) systems, bills of materials and work instructions from product lifecycle management( PLM) platforms, and material availability data from warehouse management systems( WMS). They must share quality data with quality management systems( QMS) and downtime information with computerised maintenance management systems( CMMS).
64 March 2026