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Manufacturing Execution Enablement
Bridge the gap between enterprise systems and the factory floor. The GENESIS platform provides the real-time operational foundation that enables MES functionality by connecting directly to production equipment, contextualizing live manufacturing data, and digitizing workflows where enterprise systems and physical production activities diverge.
The Challenge: Disconnected Operations
Manufacturing organizations rely on orchestrating a complex mix of machines, systems, and processes. Without a unified execution layer, production data is fragmented, workflows are inconsistent, and visibility into real-time operations is limited. Maximizing production efficiency is further challenged when organizations rely on a combination of paper-based execution, the undocumented knowledge of front line employees, and manually capturing production related activities.
Common Challenges
- Limited visibility into real-time production status across machines, lines, and shifts
- Manual tracking of work orders, materials, and quality data
- Inconsistent execution of standard operating procedures
- Delayed identification of production issues or process deviations
- Limited interoperability between ERP, control systems, and quality management
Resulting Business Impact
- Lower overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
- Increased scrap, rework, and quality incidents
- Reduced production agility and responsiveness
- Higher operational costs and inefficiencies
- Limited traceability and compliance confidence
Manufacturers need a real-time execution layer that connects people, processes, and systems on the shop floor.
The Solution: Manufacturing Execution with GENESIS
GENESIS provides a real-time operational foundation that supports manufacturing execution with accuracy, consistency, and scale. By unifying production equipment, operator workflows, and enterprise data into a single operational view, GENESIS delivers the visibility, coordination, and control required to execute manufacturing processes reliably and efficiently—while maintaining alignment between the factory floor and business systems.
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Real-World Applications
Comau Pico
Automotive Manufacturing
Comau Pico uses GENESIS to support high-volume production execution and monitoring across automotive engine testing operations, enabling 100 percent testing, real-time visibility, and consistent performance tracking across multiple Ford Motor Company plants. By standardizing data acquisition, visualization, and historical logging across cold and hot test stands, GENESIS helps engineering and operations teams monitor throughput, analyze failures, reduce downtime, and support preventive maintenance—ensuring reliable production execution at scale.
Result highlights:
- 100 percent testing of every engine produced across multiple production lines
- Real-time monitoring and trending of cold and hot engine test data
- Improved visibility into production rates, failure rates, and downtime
- Data-driven preventive maintenance and equipment replacement planning
- Faster implementation and reuse of a standardized execution architecture across sites
"GENESIS allows usage on multiple product lines using the same architecture, thereby increasing throughput and decreasing implementation time. GENESIS reduces the number of databases on a system and accelerates software modifications to the machines."
Jack Porter
Comau Pico
United Biscuits (McVitie’s)
Food and Beverage Manufacturing
United Biscuits uses GENESIS to standardize quality control and process traceability across a high-volume biscuit production line, transforming decades of operator expertise into a rules-based, automated control system. By embedding proven quality rules directly into oven control and production workflows, GENESIS enables consistent product quality, simplified product changeovers, and transparent visibility into which quality rules are applied at any point in the process—supporting repeatability, accountability, and continuous improvement at scale.
Result highlights:
- Automated quality control using rules derived from 30+ years of operator expertise
- Consistent product quality across high-throughput, multi-zone oven operations
- Simplified product changeovers with clear, visible rule sets per product
- Secure, traceable rule management with password-protected modifications
- 2.5% increase in line efficiency while improving finished product quality
"The GENESIS software is easy to use yet highly powerful, and the graphics that can be created are outstanding."
Senior Management Team
United Biscuits
Operational Outcomes and Business Benefits
Real-Time Visibility
Gain real-time insight into production status, performance, and emerging issues.
Improved Quality
Enforce standardized processes and capture quality data at the point of production.
Higher Productivity
Reduce downtime, minimize delays, and eliminate manual inefficiencies across the shop floor.
Operational Consistency
Ensure consistent execution of production processes across lines, sites, and facilities.
Manufacturing Execution Capabilities
Work Order and Production Management
Coordinate work orders, production schedules, and execution status in real time.
Data Collection and Shop Floor Integration
Collect production, equipment, and operator data directly from the shop floor.
Quality Management and Traceability
Enforce quality checks, record inspection results, and maintain complete production history.
Operational KPIs
Track key performance indicators to identify losses and improve operational efficiency.
Built for Modern Manufacturing
GENESIS aligns with ISA-95 manufacturing execution principles and provides a standards-based execution layer that connects shop-floor control systems with enterprise platforms. The platform supports scalable, modular architectures for single lines, plants, and multi-site operations, while enabling secure IT/OT convergence through open, interoperable connectivity. This foundation allows manufacturing execution capabilities to evolve over time without re-engineering core systems. Enterprise systems supporting manufacturing and supply chain typically contain a wide range of applications and underlying technologies.
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