External Components#

Critical Manufacturing MES has depends on external system, besides SQL Server database, that must be running prior to setup a new environment.The following subsections present these dependencies in two groups:

• Mandatory: systems required by the setup of a new MES environment;
• Optional: systems only required when a specific functionality of the MES is activated.

Mandatory#

This section describes the requirements for additional required components that must be running for a successful installation and operation of Critical Manufacturing MES:

• AWS S3 (or compatible)
• ClickHouse for Data Platform
• Kafka
• RabbitMQ

The requirements will vary depending on the usage of each component.

Optional - Observability#

If you intend to use the Critical Manufacturing Observability stack then the following component is required:

• ClickHouse for Observability