From shop-floor to trading partner. One integration platform.
Manufacturing runs on integrations no other vertical sees: OPC UA from
PLCs, MES orchestrating production, SAP S/4HANA on finance,
and X12 / EDIFACT moving 850s and 856s to Tier-1 customers.
Art2link connects all of it - plant by plant, partner by partner - without
modernizing your core systems first.
What integration looks like across a working manufacturing estate.
PLCs from the 90s, MES from the 2010s, ERP just moved to the cloud - and they all have to talk to each other every shift.
Every Tier-1 OEM publishes its own EDI implementation guide - Walmart 856, Target 856, and Toyota DELFOR all differ. Your map matrix is a competitive cost.
Two plants in the same company run different MES vendors, SCADA setups, sometimes different ERPs after acquisitions. Standardization is a 10-year journey.
FDA, FAA, ITAR, automotive recall rules - full lot/serial traceability across the production network is mandatory in most categories.
Every plant and system, one backbone.
From the assembly line to the ERP - the same runtime, the same audit trail.
Automotive & assembly
EDI with OEMs and SAP S/4HANA across every plant.
Chemical & materials
OSIsoft PI, MES, and SAP integrated for lot traceability.
MES & operations
Real-time shop-floor data flowing to ERP and quality systems.
One production order. Eight systems. Six days of factory floor.
A representative production order moving from customer EDI through scheduling, execution, quality, packing, and shipment. Every transition is a different system; every event is captured under one correlation ID for traceability and recall readiness.
Tier-1 customer sends 850 over AS2 with MDN. Art2link validates against partner-specific implementation guide, generates 997 functional ack within 15 minutes.
Art2link routes the parsed EDI into SAP PP via IDoc. The planning run schedules against capacity, checks material availability against the warehouse, and completes BOM explosion.
SAP releases the order to MES via Art2link, which translates the IDoc into ISA-95 B2MML. MES schedules work centers, prints the traveler, and queues operator instructions.
First-piece runs dimensional inspection on the CMM; results post via OPC UA to the quality system. Art2link ties the inspection record to the production order ID for the traceability bundle.
6,000 units complete, 14 scrap, 23 rework. Art2link routes the production confirmation back into SAP and stamps each serial against the lot for recall traceability.
Pallets packed to customer spec. The WMS generates SSCC labels per pallet, correlated to serial numbers and ready for the 856 ASN.
The 856 ASN - full hierarchical loop (shipment / order / pack / item / serial) - is built from production and packing data and sent over AS2. MDN received within 8 minutes.
810 Invoice routed to customer. Complete traceability bundle (raw material lots, machine telemetry, inspection records, serials, ASN) archived to WORM storage with 7-year retention for recall + audit.
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One query in the operator UI surfaces every event from the 850 receipt through the
810 invoice - every machine reading, quality sample, and serial. A recall request
resolved in 3 minutes instead of 3 weeks.
From PLCs on the floor to S/4HANA in the cloud.
Shop floor · OT layer
- OPC UA Rockwell, Siemens
- MODBUS TCP legacy PLCs
- MQTT IIoT sensors
- EtherNet/IP device-level
- Historian OSIsoft PI, GE Proficy
MES + execution · Plant systems
- Rockwell FactoryTalk MES
- Siemens Opcenter MES
- GE Proficy Plant Applications
- Wonderware (AVEVA)
- iBASEt Solumina (aerospace)
- SAP ME / DMC
ERP + finance · Enterprise layer
- SAP S/4HANA · ECC PP, MM, SD, FI
- Oracle EBS · Fusion Cloud
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O
- JDE EnterpriseOne
- QAD Adaptive ERP
- Plex Smart Manufacturing
Aligned with what regulators and customer auditors actually look at.
Art2link runs in your Azure subscription - production data, machine telemetry, and trading-partner records never leave your tenant. Audit retention is configurable per integration (7 years typical, longer for aerospace/defense). Customer-specific auditor read-only access supported.
The Art2link solutions a manufacturing estate runs day one.
EDI Integration
X12 (850/855/856/810/820) and EDIFACT (ORDERS/DESADV/INVOIC) for Tier-1 customer and supplier integration.
Read more → PrimarySystem Integration
Shop floor ↔ MES ↔ ERP. OPC UA for the OT layer, IDoc/BAPI for SAP, REST/OData for cloud systems.
Read more → If on BizTalkBizTalk Migration
Many manufacturers still run BizTalk for EDI and ERP integration. Migration path off, no rewrite.
Read more → CommonAPI Management
Partner self-service portals, supplier APIs, IIoT data ingestion endpoints.
Read more →
Walk a real production flow with our team.
30 minutes with a senior architect who has shipped in manufacturing. Bring one live EDI partner or MES-to-ERP flow; leave with a tailored reference architecture.