Andea is a DELMIA Apriso integrator with its own dedicated testing department. Most companies do one or the other – they build MES, or they test software. Andea does both, so the testers on your project already understand how an Apriso environment behaves, where it tends to break, and how its modules connect to the systems around it.
Andea's testers verify that your manufacturing software does what your business expects. They prepare test data, work through different configurations and operations, and push the edge cases that real production will eventually find. The goal is simple: the system behaves correctly before it goes live, not after.
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Manual testing is the core of what Andea's testing team does. Before an Apriso go-live or version upgrade, the testers confirm the system covers your business requirements. They prepare test data, work through different configurations and operations, and walk each process end to end across every module, checking the edge cases that real production will eventually hit.
The work demands broad business knowledge and precision, which is why it needs a specialist team rather than internal IT staff already stretched thin running the rollout. Andea's testers know what correctness looks like in an Apriso environment across critical processes: production execution, production genealogy, quality inspection, warehouse management, machine maintenance and others. They distinguish a configuration gap from a genuine defect, and they surface issues during testing, before the system reaches the floor.
Testing runs alongside development. Each new module gets tested as it is delivered, so defects surface early while they are still cheap to fix.
Full end-to-end flows across the critical manufacturing processes: production order creation and execution, quality inspections, warehouse transactions, etc.
Your MES exchanges data constantly with external systems like SAP and other ERP and shop-floor platforms. Andea tests those connection points directly, where a mismatch between two systems causes problems that testing either system alone would miss.
After every upgrade, hotfix, or configuration change, Andea verifies that nothing in the existing environment has broken. Regression matters because an unnoticed change can carry real consequences straight into the production environment. For multi-site clients, Andea runs regression per environment, covering each site's specific configuration.
Andea supports clients through the whole engagement, including User Acceptance Testing. When a client's internal team needs help running UAT, Andea's support ranges from full facilitation to training that team from scratch and walking them through execution.
In regulated industries, testing has to produce a complete documentation package: execution evidence, screenshots at every step, deviation logs. This is far heavier than standard testing. Andea covers it both manually and through the Auto Test Engine, which collects that documentation quickly, accurately, and repeatably, removing the manual effort that otherwise makes this work slow and error-prone.
Automating Apriso testing has a reputation for being challenging and expensive to set up, which is why most providers do not attempt it. Andea built the Auto Test Engine to change that math: a framework in Python and Selenium.
The engine is built on a Base Method approach and the page object pattern, which lets the team automate business process flows: production order creation and execution, OEE, receiving, warehouse management, and many more. Once the first business flow is developed and covered, the next automated test scenario follows in 5–7 days. Building the same script from scratch, before the framework and AI-assisted development existed, took 1–2 months. No competitor has pre-built Apriso components like these.
It also tracks response time on every Apriso action, a built-in performance check. Several testers can run independent sessions at once, each on their own machine, without conflicts. The client owns the result: open-source code and the full framework, theirs to run independently.
The Andea testing team consists of over 30 testers: the majority in Poland and a few in the US. The team is certified across the ISTQB ladder, from Foundation through Advanced Level in Test Management and Test Automation Engineering, with additional Agile and ITIL credentials. Several testers hold more than one certification. Andea's testing processes are built on ISTQB methodology, which keeps service delivery, change handling, and incident management consistent from one engagement to the next.
20+ MES projects delivered per year. Clients in automotive, aerospace, medical devices, FMCG, and industrial manufacturing across the US, Germany, Poland, the rest of Europe, and Asia.
When Andea takes on a testing engagement, it takes full ownership of it. As one of our clients put it:
"We know that when you get a topic, you take full responsibility for it and just deliver."
Andea's testing team works across manufacturing, from automotive and tobacco to aerospace and carbon products (and many others), on engagements that range from a few months to partnerships lasting years – and this means most of the clients.
A few things hold true across all of them. Automation measurably shortens testing time, long-term partnerships are the norm, and Andea carries clients through many successful go-lives. Where the environment is regulated, the team produces full GMP documentation, adapting each deliverable to the client's specific requirements.
The testing covers the full range of MES functionality: production execution, production genealogy, inventory and warehouse management, machine maintenance, quality inspection, and non-conformance.
Automotive components – automated regression testing built into an Agile MES deployment, with 600+ automated steps that cut the regression cycle from two weeks to three hours
Tobacco products manufacturing – a partnership of more than seven years, where Andea's support secured successful go-lives and the rollout of subsequent software versions across 8 factories worldwide, each with full GMP standard documentation
Aerospace composites – a long-term partnership delivering working production execution, inventory management, maintenance management, quality inspection, and non-conformance, confirmed by multiple successful go-lives and backed by automated regression testing
Carbon and graphite products – a two-year ongoing project covering the production execution module with 50+ test scenarios and 500+ test cases, multi-language documentation, and 3 successful go-lives so far
Andea works only on manufacturing software. That focus shows up in every engagement – in how fast the team gets productive on your system, and in the questions they know to ask before you think to raise them.
Andea takes full responsibility for an engagement rather than waiting for instructions step by step.
testers who already know Apriso, SAP integration points, and the risks specific to manufacturing environments.
engagements measured in years rather than single projects.
when a test finds a defect, the people who can explain or fix it are in the same company.
What you get is a team that already knows your Apriso environment, productive from the start instead of spending the first three months learning it.
DELMIA Apriso is Andea's primary specialization. The team also tests ERP integrations and multi-system environments where MES connects to several external platforms.
Module, functional-system, integration, regression, UAT support, and GMP/validated environment testing. Automated testing is delivered through the proprietary Auto Test Engine and Machine Simulation module.
Andea delivers testing in GMP-regulated environments, including the full execution evidence and documentation package required for certification. Andea does not provide standalone GMP validation consulting.
For automated testing, Andea delivers the first test scenario within a couple of days of completing the first functionally covered business flow, given access to the environment and an agreed scope. For manual engagements, the timeline depends on the scope agreed at kickoff. Andea runs manual testing alongside this, which catches defects early and cheaply, especially across end-to-end flows.
Apriso is the specialization, where Andea's testing has the deepest roots. The team is now extending that core to test the wider environment, e.g. ERP.
No. Andea built the Auto Test Engine in Python and Selenium with a pre-built core covering production order execution, OEE, receiving, and warehouse management. That core started with Apriso, where Andea's domain knowledge runs deepest, and the same engine extends to automate other manufacturing systems.
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