AI Summary
Operations Calling 2025 showcased how modern manufacturing depends on open ecosystems, with dozens of partners demonstrating integrated AI, hardware, and software solutions. The event emphasized that collaboration and interoperability—not single all-in-one systems—are key to scalable, future-ready operations.
Unlike the monolithic architecture of traditional MES platforms, app-based architectures are composable and allow for significantly greater flexibility in building solutions that fit the unique requirements of your production process.
Here are some common patterns of app-based architectures that can be rapidly developed and deployed to solve problems in your operations:
Compared to the monolithic approach, an app-based, composable solution enables:
- Flexibility and Customization: Rather than trying to shoehorn your process to conform to your MES solution, a composable, app-based approach allows you to build apps tailored to the unique needs of your operations.
- Reduced Risk and Cost: Composable solutions allow you to incrementally deploy new solutions and technologies without the need for a large upfront investment or a complete replacement of existing systems.
- Future-Proofness: A composable architecture makes vendor lock-in a thing of the past by enabling interoperability with any tools, enterprise systems, etc. that support open protocols and standards like REST, SOAP, SQL, and more.
- Continuous Improvement: An app-based approach allows for components of your solution to be easily added, updated, and replaced at will — unlike monolithic solutions characterized by periodic, large-scale updates.
How Composability Enables Rapid Time-to-Value
Check out our recent webinar for a deeper dive into how a composable approach to solution building can enable a rapid pace of development impossible to achieve with traditional, monolithic systems.
