Architecture for the plant floor — the network, systems, and standards that let manufacturing execution, control systems, and enterprise IT actually talk to each other.
This practice applies the ISA-95 reference model to bring order to fragmented plant systems — the same framework introduced early in a career to an organization with no prior standard, and scaled across a global footprint of hundreds of sites over the following decade. It's not a diagram exercise; it's the discipline that keeps every new system, every plant launch, and every integration project from reinventing the boundary lines from scratch.
Read the full ISA-95 model breakdown →Design and program leadership spanning traditional MDF rooms through shop-floor micro data centers — architecting the solution (server racks, enclosures, UPS and cooling design, cabling) and directing the equipment partners and contractors who carry out the build.
Most motors, drives, and mechanical equipment already in the field weren't built smart — they can be made smart. Specifying and directing the retrofit of vibration, temperature, and current sensors onto existing assets, paired with predictive analytics, extends equipment life and catches failure before it happens.
OEMs increasingly push sustainability and energy-reporting requirements down onto their Tier 1, 2, and 3 suppliers, who often have no real way to measure or report it. Energy monitoring and sub-metering closes that gap directly.
Segmented OT networking built on industrial-grade switching, standardized shop-floor infrastructure across multiple sites, and the physical/logical separation that both enables Industry 4.0 initiatives and keeps them secure.
Two decades in automotive manufacturing built real fluency in Just-in-Sequence and Just-in-Time delivery models and component-based releasing — the operating rhythm that OEM-facing suppliers live inside every day. Infrastructure design for these environments has to respect that rhythm, not fight it.