Technical publications and open source implementations on OPC-UA integration, ISA-95 architecture and AI agents applied to discrete manufacturing.
By Jefferson — independent MES consultant with 7 years of experience in Siemens, Rockwell, Aveva and Sepasoft projects.
Real-time tag acquisition via ClientSubscription. PLC source timestamps for precise downtime calculation.
Enrichment with production order context, operator and parts/hour target via ISA-95 Level 3 integration.
Per-shift Availability, Performance and Quality calculation. Event-precision downtime accumulation.
Reasoning loop with Claude for root cause diagnosis. Delivery via Adaptive Card on Microsoft Teams.
System hierarchy, object models and Level 2–3 integration per the ISA-95 standard.
Data acquisition via ClientSubscription, certificate-based security and vendor-specific NodeIds.
Availability, Performance and Quality calculation. MTBF, MTTR and micro-stoppage analysis.
ReAct pattern applied to industrial diagnosis. Integration with Claude API and local models via Ollama.
Consuming and publishing to MES platform REST APIs. Authentication, pagination and error handling.
Adaptive Cards for maintenance alerts with interactive actions. Webhooks and Bot Framework.
Independent consultant specializing in MES system integration with over 7 years of experience in industrial projects. Expertise in ISA-95 architecture, integration of Siemens and Rockwell controllers via OPC-UA, and implementation of MES platforms including Aveva and Sepasoft.
Smart Manufacturing Lab documents technical implementations from real projects: system architecture, integration protocols and the convergence between MES platforms and large language models in industrial environments.
Technical support for engineering and industrial IT teams in the evaluation, specification and implementation of MES solutions with AI agent integration — from OPC-UA data acquisition through to operational diagnostic delivery via Microsoft Teams.