Manufacturing planning and inventory APIs were released manually across four teams with different tooling — causing version skew and late-night rollbacks.
Problem
No shared pipeline template. Production alerts showed infrastructure green while integration queues backed up unnoticed.
Approach
Standard CI/CD with gated promotions, IaC for environments, and business-level metrics on integration throughput and error budgets.
Result
Deployment frequency up, rollback rate down. Mean time to detect integration failures improved from hours to minutes. Ops and engineering share one dashboard for release health.
Manufacturing IT bridges OT-adjacent systems and cloud APIs — pipelines must respect change windows that align with production schedules.
“Planning APIs update weekly now without weekend war rooms. Shop-floor telemetry feeds are governed the same as customer-facing apps.”
Frequently Asked Questions
How were OT constraints respected?
Deployment windows aligned to production calendars; rollback automated within agreed outage budget.
What was automated first?
Shared CI/CD templates, IaC for test environments, and observability baselines for planning APIs.
How is shop-floor data handled?
Ingestion pipelines with schema validation and segregated networks — no direct OT exposure to public cloud APIs.
Can this scale to multiple plants?
Reference pipelines are parameterised per site with central governance on golden templates.