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2.4 Deployment Architecture

11. Operational Excellence & Digital Sy... Part 2. Equipment Connectivity and Exec...

Cloud-first architectures fail on the factory floor because the internet is not a real-time contr...

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2.3 Electronic Interlocks

11. Operational Excellence & Digital Sy... Part 2. Equipment Connectivity and Exec...

An Electronic Interlock is the digital equivalent of a physical barrier. It is a binary constrain...

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2.2 Recipe / Program Management

11. Operational Excellence & Digital Sy... Part 2. Equipment Connectivity and Exec...

A machine recipe (reflow profile, torque script, pick-and-place file) is not a "setting"; it is a...

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2.1 Equipment Connectivity Playbook

11. Operational Excellence & Digital Sy... Part 2. Equipment Connectivity and Exec...

A disconnected machine is a black hole in your production line. You cannot improve what you canno...

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1.6 ERP-MES Contract: Orders, confirmations, consumption, scrap, WIP

11. Operational Excellence & Digital Sy... Part 1. Manufacturing Systems Architect...

The interface between ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and MES (Manufacturing Execution System)...

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1.5 OT Network & Cybersecurity Baseline

11. Operational Excellence & Digital Sy... Part 1. Manufacturing Systems Architect...

A flat network is a suicide pact. If a receptionist's laptop opens a phishing email, your PLCs mu...

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1.4 Master Data Model + SSOT Rules (BOM/Routing/Resources)

11. Operational Excellence & Digital Sy... Part 1. Manufacturing Systems Architect...

Master Data is the executable code of your factory. If the Bill of Materials (BOM) or Routing con...

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1.3 System Landscape & RACI

11. Operational Excellence & Digital Sy... Part 1. Manufacturing Systems Architect...

A manufacturing floor running on undefined system boundaries guarantees data corruption. When an ...

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1.2 Interoperability and Governance

11. Operational Excellence & Digital Sy... Part 1. Manufacturing Systems Architect...

A system architecture without governance is not an architecture; it is a "spaghetti topology" of ...

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1.1 Functional Hierarchy (ISA-95)

11. Operational Excellence & Digital Sy... Part 1. Manufacturing Systems Architect...

In complex manufacturing, blurring the lines between business planning and machine control is not...

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6.6 Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

07. Facility Infrastructure, TPM & EHS Part 6. Maintenance Operations & Reliab...

In Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), "fixing" the machine is merely the first step. The goal is...

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6.5 Breakdown Response Standard (safe isolation, restart verification)

07. Facility Infrastructure, TPM & EHS Part 6. Maintenance Operations & Reliab...

A machine breakdown is a high-pressure event where adrenaline often overrides protocol. This is w...

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6.2 Preventive Maintenance (PM) Planning

07. Facility Infrastructure, TPM & EHS Part 6. Maintenance Operations & Reliab...

Preventive Maintenance is not a suggestion; it is a rigid contract between Engineering and Operat...

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6.3 Predictive Maintenance (PdM)

07. Facility Infrastructure, TPM & EHS Part 6. Maintenance Operations & Reliab...

Predictive Maintenance is not about fixing machines; it is about buying time. While Preventive Ma...

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6.4 Asset Register, Criticality & Spare Parts Policy

07. Facility Infrastructure, TPM & EHS Part 6. Maintenance Operations & Reliab...

Managing assets in an ISO 9001/13485 environment is not an accounting exercise; it is a technical...

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6.1 Maintenance Governance: KPIs, Roles, Escalation

07. Facility Infrastructure, TPM & EHS Part 6. Maintenance Operations & Reliab...

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is not a cleaning schedule; it is the fiscal discipline of Ass...

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5.3 Outage / Disaster Recovery Playbooks + Test Schedule

07. Facility Infrastructure, TPM & EHS Part 5. Business Continuity & Security

Disaster recovery is not about "hope"; it is about Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR). In a crisis, adr...

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5.2 Backup Power & UPS Systems

07. Facility Infrastructure, TPM & EHS Part 5. Business Continuity & Security

Grid stability is a variable, not a constant. In electronics manufacturing, a 50ms power sag does...

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5.1 Physical Security & Access Control

07. Facility Infrastructure, TPM & EHS Part 5. Business Continuity & Security

Physical security in manufacturing is not about theft prevention; it is about preserving the "Cha...

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4.7 Ergonomics & Manual Handling

07. Facility Infrastructure, TPM & EHS Part 4. Environmental Health & Safety (...

Ergonomics is not about comfort; it is about Yield. A fatigued operator introduces variability in...

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