Real hardware, in the production cloud
A proof-of-concept production station for portioning supplements — conveyor, scale, and printer — driven from the customer's cloud software.
- .NET 8
- ASP.NET Core Minimal API
- Microsoft Power Apps
- OpenAPI custom connectors
- On-Premises Data Gateway
- Windows Services
- Serial & TCP/IP device drivers
- Industrial automation
The challenge
A manufacturer wanted their physical production station — the machines that prepare and label each portion — driven directly from the cloud software they already run their production on. The hard part wasn’t the app they already had — it was the hardware, and the software and drivers that make it a controllable part of a cloud workflow.
What we did
We brought the station together and connected it to the cloud. Each machine speaks its own low-level protocol, so we wrote a driver and a small service for each, then exposed them through a standard integration layer. From there, the production software could drive the floor directly — measuring, labelling, and moving product, step by step.
Outcome Deployed at the customer's factory, where it has already run real production batches.