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Industrial Data Engineering

operating context

When industrial data exists but nobody governs it

Industrial data almost always exists, but it is scattered across systems, local queries and spreadsheets. The result is a fragile base on which every MES, analytics or AI initiative stays limping.

01

Disconnected sources with no owner

Issue

Each system has its own language, nobody owns end-to-end quality, and the gaps only surface when a report breaks.

Solution

Without explicit source ownership, every data-quality discussion turns into a blame game between departments.

02

Pipelines born for one report, not to last

Issue

Scripts were written to unblock a specific case and now support operational decisions, but nobody ever put them under version control or monitoring.

Solution

Repeatable patterns are needed: ingestion, transformation and serving defined as stable contracts, not personal scripts.

03

No shared semantic layer

Issue

KPIs, events and units are defined differently across systems; dashboards and ML models produce numbers that do not speak to each other.

Solution

A single semantic layer is the only way to make MES, analytics and AI share the same operational vocabulary.

operating method

How we work: 4 phases in sequence

01

Data audit

Census of data sources, quality, frequency, format and ownership.

Source mapOwnershipQuality gate
02

Industrial data model

Design of a unified data model based on ISA-95: equipment, materials, operations, KPIs.

Pipeline blueprintIngestionServing
03

ETL/ELT pipeline

Development of ingestion, transformation and loading pipelines with scheduling and monitoring.

Semantic layerKPI modelEvents
04

Visualisation and access

Operational and executive dashboards, API for programmatic access, data catalogue.

RunbookMonitoringData contracts
expected output

The layers we build in a data engineering engagement

We make the data chain explicit so value does not depend on artisanal queries or tacit knowledge held by a few people.

Catalog of systems, owners, expected quality and issues for each source feeding the data model.

tech spec

Technical spec

explorer
architecture/ 2
operations/ 2
source-map.ts
// industrial source catalog

Source map

Systems: MES, ERP, SCADA, sensors
Owner: One per source
Quality: Metrics and thresholds
SourcesQuality
// ingestion→serving pattern

Pipeline pattern

Ingestion: Batch + streaming
Transformation: Staging + curated
Serving: Warehouse + events
PipelinesPattern
// shared operational vocabulary

Semantic layer

KPIs: Single definition
Events: Typed + versioned
Hierarchies: Plant / line / machine
SemanticKPI
// producer/consumer contracts

Data contracts

Schema: Typed + versioned
SLA: Freshness + quality
Changes: Breaking → review
ContractsSLA
architecture/source-map.ts Markdown
next_step.initialize

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Mapped sources, repeatable pipelines, shared semantics — the foundation for MES, analytics and AI.