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Kanoa MES Accelerators

What is a Kanoa MES Accelerator?​

Kanoa MES Accelerators are practical implementation resources designed for systems integrators, engineering teams, and developers building solutions on top of Kanoa MES. Kanoa MES is intentionally built to deliver strong out-of-the-box functionality across many industries — but real deployments often require plant-specific workflows, integrations, and operational logic. Accelerators provide proven starting points for those common extensions.

Each Accelerator includes downloadable resources, working reference screens, and detailed walkthroughs that demonstrate how to leverage Kanoa’s platform tools effectively.

Accelerators are:​

  • Composable implementation examples, not rigid product features
  • Designed to accelerate project delivery, not replace custom engineering
  • Focused on common patterns, such as operator workflows, scheduling logic, asset automation, and work-order-driven behavior
  • Built to be modified, adapted, and extended for your environment

Accelerators are not:​

  • Full turnkey solutions
  • One-size-fits-all industry solutions
  • Required components of Kanoa MES
  • Formally covered by Kanoa support

They are intended as a library of high-value building blocks — showing how teams can go from a common request to a working solution quickly, using the openness of the Kanoa MES platform.

Why Accelerators Exist​

Manufacturing MES projects often encounter the same classes of requirements across sites and industries:

  • “We need operators to follow a specific startup or shutdown flow.”
  • “This order needs additional data from ERP or another system.”
  • “Scheduling needs to react to plant-specific constraints.”
  • “We need to automate part of this workflow, but still allow manual overrides.”

While Kanoa MES provides the platform tools to support these needs, Accelerators bridge the gap between capability and implementation. They demonstrate how to combine Kanoa features — such as Production Orders, Metadata, scripting, screens, and asset models — into working solutions.

Accelerators are especially valuable as:

  • Reference implementations
  • Learning tools for new Kanoa developers
  • Starting points for customer-specific customization

Using Accelerators in Projects​

Accelerators are best used early in a project to reduce uncertainty and speed up delivery:

  • Start with an Accelerator that closely matches your use case
  • Review and understand the reference implementation
  • Modify the logic, screens, and data models to fit your plant
  • Extend or simplify as needed

Important: Accelerators are provided as implementation aids and examples. They are not installed automatically, required for operation, or expected to fit every environment without modification.

Relationship to Kanoa MES Product Features​

Each Kanoa MES Accelerator is created against a specific version of Kanoa MES and reflects the product features, APIs, and platform behavior available at the time it was developed.

When an Accelerator is published, it will explicitly document:

  • The Kanoa MES version it was designed and validated against
  • Any key product features it depends on

This is important because Kanoa MES continues to evolve, and in some cases capabilities demonstrated in an Accelerator may later be incorporated directly into the core product.

Point-in-Time Implementations​

Accelerators should be viewed as point-in-time implementation examples, not permanent abstractions.

Over time:

  • Product features may supersede or simplify parts of an Accelerator
  • Platform enhancements may change the preferred way to implement a pattern
  • Certain configuration or scripting steps may no longer be required

When this happens, the original Accelerator may still function, but its role or value may change as the product matures.

As Kanoa MES evolves, we will make a best effort to:

  • Document relevant product changes that impact existing Accelerators
  • Call out when an Accelerator’s approach has been partially or fully absorbed into the core platform
  • Provide guidance on how to adapt or simplify implementations when newer product features are available

However, Accelerators are not automatically updated to track every product release, and they should not be treated as forward-compatible guarantees.

Guidance for Implementers​

When using an Accelerator, we recommend that teams:

  • Confirm the Kanoa MES version alignment before implementation
  • Review release notes for newer versions of Kanoa MES that may affect the solution
  • Treat Accelerators as starting points, not fixed dependencies
  • Be prepared to adjust implementations as product features evolve

This approach ensures that Accelerators remain a valuable learning and acceleration tool, while allowing the core Kanoa MES product to continue improving without breaking customer solutions.