Production systems that cannot share data, legacy platforms that resist integration, and shop floors without real-time visibility limit every decision your operations team makes. Perimattic builds enterprise manufacturing software - custom production platforms, MES and ERP integrations, industrial IoT connectivity, and cloud-based manufacturing applications - engineered to give manufacturers the operational control and data they need to compete.
Manufacturing Technology Stack - Python, Java, MQTT, OPC-UA, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Oracle, and the modern industrial software ecosystem
Manufacturing software development is the design, engineering, integration, and support of software systems built specifically for industrial production environments. It covers a broad spectrum - from custom manufacturing execution systems and production planning applications to industrial IoT connectivity platforms, quality management systems, and the integration middleware that connects shop floor operations with enterprise systems. Unlike packaged ERP or off-the-shelf MES products, custom manufacturing software is engineered to the specific production processes, equipment, data flows, and operational requirements of the business rather than requiring the business to adapt its operations to fit a commercial product.
The fundamental challenge for manufacturing enterprises is not the availability of technology - it is the complexity of production environments. Manufacturing operations typically combine legacy on-premises systems, proprietary equipment communication protocols, multiple ERP customizations, and specialist operational tools that have evolved over years without a coherent integration architecture. Data sits in silos: machine data in SCADA systems, production order data in ERP, quality data in standalone tools, and inventory data in a warehouse system that does not communicate with production scheduling. The result is operations that rely on manual data transfer, batch reporting, and spreadsheet-based visibility rather than real-time insight.
Perimattic builds manufacturing software platforms that address this complexity: a thorough discovery of the existing operational landscape before any development begins, an architecture designed to integrate rather than replace where existing systems are sound, and an incremental delivery approach that produces working software at each phase. We handle the full range - custom manufacturing platforms, MES and ERP integration, industrial IoT connectivity, production analytics, quality management, legacy modernization, and supply chain systems - across automotive, electronics, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, discrete, and process manufacturing sectors.
Integration approach
Point-to-point connections between siloed systems - brittle, undocumented, and resistant to change
Integration approach
Unified API and event-driven integration layer connecting shop floor, ERP, and analytics systems
Production visibility
Batch reporting with hours of latency - operators react to problems after they have already compounded
Production visibility
Real-time shop floor dashboards with live machine status, production rates, and performance metrics
Data management
Manufacturing data trapped in isolated SCADA, MES, and ERP silos with no shared data model
Data management
Centralized manufacturing data platform connecting equipment, operations, quality, and enterprise systems
Scalability
Legacy platforms hard-coded to specific line configurations - expensive to change, difficult to scale
Scalability
Cloud-native architecture that adapts to new production lines, facilities, and growing data volumes
System maintenance
Fragile customizations with no documentation - one change in a connected system breaks dependent workflows
System maintenance
Standards-based platform with documented APIs and interfaces your engineering team can maintain and extend
The operational cost of fragmented manufacturing systems becomes apparent when a production incident requires data from five different systems to diagnose, when a new product line cannot be onboarded because the scheduling system cannot accommodate it, or when a customer audit requires traceability data that does not exist in a structured form. These are the moments that reveal whether manufacturing software was built as a coherent platform or accumulated as a collection of disconnected tools.
Thirteen specialist service lines covering the full manufacturing software lifecycle - from supply chain and warehouse management through MES, ERP, industrial IoT, predictive maintenance, quality management, digital twins, smart factory platforms, and manufacturing analytics.
A structured six-stage process from free manufacturing systems discovery to production deployment and ongoing platform support - designed to minimize risk at every phase.
We map your existing production systems, equipment connectivity, integration landscape, data flows, and compliance requirements. This free session produces a clear picture of your current operational state - system boundaries, integration dependencies, data quality issues, and modernization risk - before any platform or architecture decisions are made.
We design the target platform architecture: system boundaries, integration approach, data model, equipment connectivity strategy, identity and access management, and cloud or hybrid deployment plan. We produce a phased roadmap with clear milestones and go/no-go decision points that give you full control over scope and pace.
We design the detailed platform structure and build a proof of concept against the highest-risk component - typically the primary integration or equipment connectivity layer - to validate the architecture and surface any technical risks before full development investment begins.
We develop and integrate the platform incrementally, delivering working software at each phase. We connect equipment, integrate enterprise systems, build user-facing applications, and implement the data pipelines that make production information accessible and actionable across operations.
We run comprehensive testing - functional, integration, performance, security, and user acceptance - in a staging environment that mirrors production. No phase is signed off without evidence that the software performs correctly under realistic production conditions and load.
We deploy to production with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and operational runbook documentation. We support the post-deployment period and offer engineering retainers for ongoing platform evolution, feature development, and performance tuning as your operations grow.
We map your existing production systems, equipment connectivity, integration landscape, data flows, and compliance requirements. This free session produces a clear picture of your current operational state - system boundaries, integration dependencies, data quality issues, and modernization risk - before any platform or architecture decisions are made.
We design the target platform architecture: system boundaries, integration approach, data model, equipment connectivity strategy, identity and access management, and cloud or hybrid deployment plan. We produce a phased roadmap with clear milestones and go/no-go decision points that give you full control over scope and pace.
We design the detailed platform structure and build a proof of concept against the highest-risk component - typically the primary integration or equipment connectivity layer - to validate the architecture and surface any technical risks before full development investment begins.
We develop and integrate the platform incrementally, delivering working software at each phase. We connect equipment, integrate enterprise systems, build user-facing applications, and implement the data pipelines that make production information accessible and actionable across operations.
We run comprehensive testing - functional, integration, performance, security, and user acceptance - in a staging environment that mirrors production. No phase is signed off without evidence that the software performs correctly under realistic production conditions and load.
We deploy to production with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and operational runbook documentation. We support the post-deployment period and offer engineering retainers for ongoing platform evolution, feature development, and performance tuning as your operations grow.
Select an industry to see how we design, build, and integrate manufacturing software platforms for enterprise production operations.
Automotive manufacturers operate complex, high-volume production environments where real-time visibility, precision scheduling, and tight supplier coordination are essential - making integrated manufacturing software a direct operational requirement.
Automotive manufacturers operate complex, high-volume production environments where real-time visibility, precision scheduling, and tight supplier coordination are essential - making integrated manufacturing software a direct operational requirement.
Electronics manufacturers demand extremely high process precision, tight traceability requirements, and fast product changeovers - driving the need for purpose-built software that connects equipment data with quality and production management systems.
Food and beverage manufacturers face strict regulatory compliance requirements, perishable inventory constraints, and complex batch traceability obligations - all of which demand well-integrated production and quality software platforms.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers operate in one of the most tightly regulated production environments - where software must support 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, electronic batch records, and validated system change control alongside operational efficiency goals.
Discrete manufacturers producing configured, assembled, or custom products require flexible production software that can handle variant-rich bills of materials, multi-level work orders, and complex routing logic while maintaining real-time shop floor visibility.
Process manufacturers - including chemical, plastics, metals, and materials producers - operate continuous or batch production environments where sensor data volumes are high, process parameters are critical, and equipment uptime directly drives profitability.
Perimattic's work resulted in stable production systems. The team was helpful, easily accessible, and communicative through email. Their professionalism was impressive.
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DevOps Managed Services · Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
24/7 monitoring and support for production environments plus Linux server administration for a leasing automation company.
The new architecture is scalable and highly efficient, saving a lot of money in fees. Perimattic provides high-quality IT consulting and cloud development work promptly and at great value. The team remains involved from the planning stage to providing support, showing diligence and proactiveness.
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Schedule
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AWS Migration (Legacy → Microservices) · Nov 2018 - Ongoing
Transitioned a travel systems company's legacy server system to an AWS-based microservices architecture with ongoing maintenance.
Four structural advantages that separate manufacturing software built for real production environments from platforms that look right in a demo but struggle under operational conditions.
Every engagement begins with a thorough discovery of your production environment: existing systems, equipment connectivity, integration dependencies, data flows, and operational workflows. We understand your manufacturing context - process, discrete, batch, or continuous - before designing software. This prevents the costly mistake of building a platform that does not fit the production environment it needs to serve.
Manufacturing environments accumulate fragile point-to-point connections between MES, ERP, SCADA, and specialist systems. We design structured integration architectures - API-driven, event-based, and properly documented - that make manufacturing systems interoperable without the brittleness that breaks under system upgrades or operational change.
Manufacturing software often connects directly to production operations. We design deployment approaches that minimize risk to live production: phased rollouts, parallel running periods, tested rollback procedures, and staged cutover plans. Security is designed into the architecture from the start - including OT/IT network boundary controls and role-based access management.
The engineers who conduct your manufacturing systems discovery design and deliver the platform. No handoffs between strategy and execution. No loss of operational context between phases. You work with the same engineering team from the scoping call through deployment and ongoing support - with full accountability throughout the engagement.
“The difference between manufacturing software that works in production and software that fails under operational conditions is not the feature set - it is whether the engineers who built it understood the production environment before they designed it. Discovery and integration architecture are where manufacturing software is won or lost.”
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Read articleManufacturing software development is the design, engineering, integration, and ongoing support of software systems built specifically for production and industrial operations. It spans a broad range of platforms: custom manufacturing execution systems, production planning and scheduling applications, ERP integration layers, industrial IoT connectivity platforms, quality management systems, shop floor data collection software, analytics and reporting tools, and the integration middleware that connects all of these systems into a coherent operational platform. Unlike off-the-shelf ERP or standalone MES products, custom manufacturing software is engineered to the specific production processes, equipment, data flows, and integration requirements of the business - rather than the business adapting its operations to fit a packaged product.
We build the full range of manufacturing software platforms: custom manufacturing execution systems and MES integrations, production planning and scheduling software, shop floor data collection and work order management platforms, industrial IoT and equipment connectivity platforms using MQTT, OPC-UA, and REST APIs, quality management and inspection systems, inventory and supply chain management software, predictive maintenance and equipment analytics platforms, manufacturing analytics and operational dashboards, ERP integration layers connecting SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics with production systems, legacy manufacturing application modernization, and cloud-based manufacturing platforms. We work across discrete, process, repetitive, and batch manufacturing environments.
Yes. Integration with existing ERP and MES systems is one of the most common requirements in manufacturing software engagements. We build structured integration layers - using REST APIs, event-driven messaging, and middleware platforms - that connect production systems with SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and other enterprise platforms without replacing existing core systems. For MES integration, we design and implement bi-directional data flows between shop floor execution systems and enterprise planning layers, ensuring production orders, material consumption, quality data, and production confirmations move reliably between systems. We always begin with a thorough integration discovery to map existing interfaces, data models, and dependencies before designing the target integration architecture.
Machine and equipment connectivity depends on the protocol the equipment supports. Modern equipment typically supports OPC-UA or MQTT, which we connect directly to a data collection layer or message broker. Older equipment may use Modbus, RS-232, or proprietary protocols that require an edge computing gateway to translate and forward data. We design the data collection architecture for your specific equipment mix, implement the necessary edge or cloud connectivity components, and build the data ingestion pipelines that make machine data available to production monitoring dashboards, analytics platforms, and operational systems. We do not require equipment upgrades - we work with the communication capabilities your equipment already has.
Yes. Legacy manufacturing applications - whether custom SCADA systems, on-premises MES platforms, outdated production planning tools, or ageing ERP customizations - accumulate technical debt that eventually limits what the production operation can do. We assess the legacy application estate, identify modernization priorities based on operational impact and technical risk, and execute modernization using incremental approaches that keep production operations running throughout. Depending on the application, this may involve rehosting on cloud infrastructure, replatforming onto managed services, re-architecting specific components, or building modern API layers on top of legacy systems. We do not advocate for full rewrites unless the legacy application is genuinely beyond maintenance.
Yes, and increasingly it is the right architectural choice for most manufacturing software platforms. Cloud deployment provides managed infrastructure, automatic scaling, high availability, disaster recovery, and the ability to aggregate data from multiple facilities into a single platform. For shop floor systems where latency or connectivity reliability is critical, we use edge computing patterns - running time-sensitive logic locally at the facility while syncing data to cloud platforms for analytics, reporting, and enterprise integration. Hybrid architectures combining edge and cloud components are common in modern manufacturing software and well within our design and implementation capabilities.
Security in manufacturing software has two distinct layers: IT security for the software application itself, and OT security for the industrial systems it connects to. On the application layer, we implement role-based access control, identity and access management, API authentication, secrets management, encrypted data transmission, and vulnerability scanning in CI/CD pipelines. For OT connectivity, we follow network segmentation principles - ensuring manufacturing software connects to shop floor systems through clearly defined, monitored interfaces rather than open network access. For regulated industries, we design to specific compliance frameworks relevant to your operations and build the audit trail capabilities required to satisfy regulatory review.
Timelines depend on the scope, complexity, and integration requirements of the platform. A focused application - such as a shop floor data collection system for a single production line, or a quality inspection workflow for a specific process - can deliver working software in eight to twelve weeks. A full manufacturing platform integrating MES, ERP, IoT connectivity, quality management, and analytics across multiple facilities typically runs twenty-four to forty weeks, delivered in phased increments. We provide an accurate, risk-weighted timeline during the free discovery and scoping session before any work begins, including clear milestones and go/no-go decision points between phases.
We deliver manufacturing software across automotive, electronics and semiconductors, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and life sciences, discrete manufacturing, industrial equipment, chemicals and process manufacturing, and related industrial sectors. Each industry has specific data requirements, compliance obligations, equipment connectivity patterns, and operational workflows that shape the software architecture. We begin every engagement by understanding the specific operational context - production processes, equipment, integration landscape, and compliance requirements - before designing the software platform.
Yes. Manufacturing software platforms require ongoing engineering support: feature evolution as production requirements change, integration updates when connected systems are upgraded, performance tuning as data volumes grow, security patching, and incident response. We offer structured engineering retainers for ongoing platform maintenance and development, and provide support during the initial post-deployment period as part of every engagement. We document the platform architecture, integration interfaces, and operational runbooks so that your internal teams have the context they need, and we design systems that are maintainable by capable engineers rather than requiring proprietary knowledge to operate.
Tell us about your production environment, your existing systems, and where the current software is holding your operations back. We will show you exactly how a purpose-built, well-integrated manufacturing platform can give your teams the real-time visibility and operational control they need.