Productization of MES System Using AWS Cloud-Native for Global Automotive Supplier

Client

The client is a leading US-based global Tier-1 automotive supplier. They design, engineer and manufacture systems and technologies that make the next generation of vehicles smarter, lighter, safer and more efficient. 

Challenges

• Enhancing features and functionality of the product. 
• Re-architect existing components from IaaS to PaaS, and then to Cloud Native. 
• Faster deployment for new plants rollouts. 
• Reduce CapEx and move to OpEx model. 

LTM Solution

• Evaluation of existing applications architecture, app structure and MES platform. 
• Re-factoring of the application to AWS PaaS for a quick win, and then re-architect entire application. 
• Application functionality was organized into microservices using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) approach and hosted in Docker containers hosted in AWS EKS. 
• Application was developed using Angular 6 as client side front-end and ASP.NET Core Web API as APIs on sever-side. 
• Application database was SQL Server hosted on AWS RDS. 
• Automation of DevOps pipeline for faster CI/CD. 
• Automation of AWS resource provisioning using CloudFormation.

Business Benefits

• 45% increase in application performance.
• $ 750,000 was saved by moving on-premise QA Testing and Staging Servers to AWS Cloud.
• Faster rollout of a new plant using automation features of AWS.