Manufacturing Data Foundation system blueprint
This system establishes the shared entities, relationships, measures, ownership, quality controls, and lineage required for manufacturing operations and analytics. It connects ERP, MES, WMS, quality, maintenance, planning, supplier, logistics, and finance sources while preserving each system's role as the record of origin.
- Business function
- Operations
- Operating context
- Manufacturing & distribution
- Primary owner
- Manufacturing Data Product Owner
Operating brief
What starts the system
A source, plant, product, process, measure, or manufacturing use case is added or changed.
Every critical entity and measure has a named business owner and source of record
Operating sequence
How the system works
1. Connect sources and map shared manufacturing entities, identifiers, events, and relationships.
2. Define governed measures, access, quality tests, ownership, and source-to-output lineage.
3. Publish monitored data products and manage changes through versioned contracts and approvals.
Inputs
- ERP, MES, WMS, quality, maintenance, planning, and finance schemas
- Product, material, supplier, customer, machine, site, and calendar masters
- Business definitions, ownership, access, quality, and retention policies
Outputs
- Governed manufacturing data products and semantic model
- Source, quality, ownership, access, and lineage catalogue
Controls
- Every critical entity and measure has a named business owner and source of record
- Schema, definition, access, and quality changes are tested and version-controlled
Source landscape
Examples of systems it may connect to
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Microsoft Fabric
- Fivetran
- dbt
Reusable core
What can carry across companies
The reusable core is source connection, entity resolution, semantic modeling, quality, access, lineage, and monitoring.
Your installation
What must be adapted
System landscape, identifiers, hierarchies, definitions, plant semantics, access groups, and retention policies are local.
Start with the closest pattern–or start from your process.
The catalogue represents reusable operating shapes, not fixed off-the-shelf applications.