--- alias: installation-guide-index description: "This guide details the deployment process for a high-availability manufacturing execution system" --- # Installation Guide The Critical Manufacturing MES installation guide provides you with detailed instructions on how to successfully deploy Critical Manufacturing MES. Critical Manufacturing MES is a high availability product that is optimized for transaction throughput with critical system requirements. For an overview of the system and its main components please refer to the [System Architecture](systemarchitecture.md) section. Due to its demanding nature Critical Manufacturing MES requires careful planning and preparation. Before starting a new installation please follow the steps in the [Preparation](preparation.md) section very carefully as this is where you will find instructions that will help you prepare a new system to host Critical Manufacturing MES. This section provides a checklist of the system requirements and links to the detailed instructions on how to prepare each item in the checklist. ## Target Audience The Installation Guide provides planning, preparation, deployment, post-installation, upgrade, and uninstall guidance for a Critical Manufacturing MES environment. This section is primarily intended for: * System administrators performing installation * DevOps and platform engineers * Implementation consultants * Partner deployment engineers * Database and infrastructure specialists supporting the deployment ## Guide Contents This guide includes the following sections: * [Introduction](installationintroduction.md) * [System Architecture](systemarchitecture.md) * [Preparation](preparation.md) * [Installation](installation.md) * [Planning and Installation Guides](planning-and-installation-guides/index.md) * [Post-Installation](post-installation/index.md) * [Software Updates](softwareupdates.md) * [Uninstall](uninstall.md) You can access the complete PDF file of the Installation Guide here: [PDF](pdf/InstallationGuide.pdf)