Case Study
High-Availability MES Migration to Azure with Integrated DR
Executive Summary
A leading manufacturer of pistons and piston rings relied on a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) hosted on on-premises infrastructure to manage production operations, monitoring, and reporting. As production volumes and data loads increased, the existing environment began facing severe performance and scalability challenges, impacting overall manufacturing efficiency.
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Geography: India
- Capability: Hyperscaler Orchestration
- Technologies: Microsoft Azure
- Key Outcome: • Achieved high availability and resilience with automated DR capabilities. • Significantly improved performance and scalability during high production loads. • Strengthened security compliance using Azure-native best practices. • Enhanced visibility and insights via centralized monitoring and improved dashboards
The Challenge
• On-premises servers were over-utilized, leading to performance degradation during production peaks. • No elasticity to scale up compute resources on demand.
• Lack of HA and DR, creating business continuity risks.
• Manual infrastructure management without consistent monitoring or governance
Delivery
• Proposed migrating the MES application to Microsoft Azure.
• Migrated MES workloads to Azure Virtual Machines within Availability Sets for HA.
• Implemented DR setup using Azure Site Recovery (ASR) across paired regions.
• Deployed all infrastructure through Terraform, ensuring repeatability and version control.
• Adopted Microsoft CAF Landing Zone to align with governance, networking, and security standards.
• Strengthened security posture with Azure Defender, NSGs, and RBAC policies
Results
• Achieved high availability and resilience with automated DR capabilities.
• Significantly improved performance and scalability during high production loads.
• Strengthened security compliance using Azure-native best practices.
• Enhanced visibility and insights via centralized monitoring and improved dashboards
Deep Dive into the Outcomes
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