For pharma and biotech manufacturers running PAS-X
A PAS-X MCP server gives Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot read-only tools for batch status, open process exceptions, process orders and material consumption. The read source is PAS-X Data Access, a separately licensed SQL store. Körber ships no MCP server as of 21 September 2026, so Pexon builds one as non-GMP decision support.
Why PAS-X is hard for agents
01 · GMP
Any tool that reads batch records has to be validated or clearly positioned as non-GMP decision support. The connector is the second: it answers questions, and the batch record in PAS-X stays the record of truth. Writes into the EBR are out of scope.
02 · Licensing
Körber publishes no API reference. PAS-X Data Access is licensed separately and needs PAS-X MES 3.3.x or 3.4.x, so the first question in the blueprint is whether you have it or want it.
03 · Versions
The installed base spans PAS-X 3.1.8 to 3.4.x, with customer-specific master batch records. Tools are mapped to your version and your recipes, not to a generic PAS-X model.
04 · Data integrity
ALCOA+ requirements mean the MCP server logs every query and every answer with user and time. The log is designed with your QA team before go-live, not added afterwards.
Checked 21 September 2026
| What we found | |
|---|---|
| Interfaces | PAS-X Data Access (SQL, docs behind customer or partner login): separately licensed; qualified change-data-capture replication into a dedicated store, version-stable across PAS-X MES 3.3.x and 3.4.x · PAS-X MSI (Message-based Shopfloor Integration) (SOAP web services, docs behind customer or partner login): equipment integration adapter, not built for business queries; the connector does not use it |
| Authentication | Not documented publicly. Read access to the Data Access store is set up with your PAS-X and validation teams in the blueprint. |
| Vendor MCP server | No vendor server. No Körber MCP server for PAS-X found; the vendor's AI product PAS-X K.AI is a documentation chatbot. |
| Vendor AI assistant | PAS-X K.AI, a web-based chatbot that researches PAS-X documentation for PAS-X MES 3.1.8 and later, Data Access, Track & Trace and PAS-X2X. |
| Other connectors | HighByte documents an MSI integration for equipment data through web services; it is not an AI connector. |
Körber, Business Area Pharma (formerly Werum IT Solutions) (DE). Pharma, biotech and cell and gene therapy manufacturers running GMP electronic batch records; Körber states PAS-X is used by more than 50 percent of the top 30 pharma companies.
What we build
Built on what Körber, Business Area Pharma (formerly Werum IT Solutions) documents: batches and electronic batch records, process orders, materials, process exceptions, weighing and dispensing records, equipment status and cleaning, KPI and OEE, serialisation data. Backends named below are documented resources; "confirmed in blueprint" means the vendor documentation sits behind a login and the resource is checked against your release first.
# pas-x-mcp-server: tool manifest, draft for blueprint week 1
# Every tool runs as the person asking. Nothing is written without a person confirming.
tools:
list_open_exceptions: # product or site, date range -> batches with open exceptions and category
backend: PAS-X Data Access, SQL views confirmed in blueprint
mode: read
get_batch_status: # batch id -> order, status, current step, review state
backend: PAS-X Data Access, resource confirmed in blueprint
mode: read
get_material_consumption: # batch id -> consumed material lots and quantities
backend: PAS-X Data Access, resource confirmed in blueprint
mode: read
get_order_list: # site, date range -> process orders with status
backend: PAS-X Data Access, resource confirmed in blueprint
mode: read
audit: every call logged with user, tool, arguments and the PAS-X responseThe manifest is the contract. A question that needs an operation not on it gets a new line and a review, not a wider permission.
PAS-X holds the records. An assistant without a governed way in answers from whatever someone pasted into the chat. The connector is the governed way in: named operations, the person's own permissions, every call logged.
When this is the wrong page
If the question is how PAS-X works or where a setting lives, PAS-X K.AI answers it from Körber's documentation. If you need validated GMP reporting, that belongs in a qualified reporting layer on Data Access; a connector is right for ad hoc questions from Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot as decision support.
Two weeks, €4,900 fixed price. Week one agrees the tool list with your PAS-X owners and checks every backend against your release and licence. Week two tests whether a person's own PAS-X permissions reach through the connector. You keep the manifest and a costed build plan, whoever builds it. All prices are net and exclude VAT.
What we need from you: a named PAS-X administrator, a test or sandbox system we may call, and one business owner who can say which questions the assistant should answer first. The first production connector is usually a use-case pilot from €15,000; it runs in your environment, and the code is yours.
Not as of 21 September 2026. Körber's AI product PAS-X K.AI is a chatbot over PAS-X documentation, not over your batch data. An MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot has to be built against PAS-X Data Access.
Usually yes. PAS-X Data Access, the safe read path, is licensed separately and needs PAS-X MES 3.3.x or 3.4.x. Check your licence with Körber before the build; the blueprint starts with that question.
No. Access to the Data Access store is scoped per role, and each person only gets the scope their role allows. Every query and answer is logged with user and time, and two users are tested against each other before go-live.
The two-week Readiness Blueprint is fixed at €4,900: agreed tool list, backends checked against your release, identity tested end to end, costed build plan. The production connector is usually a use-case pilot from €15,000. Prices are net, excluding VAT.
Next step
Thirty minutes with the engineer who would build the connector, with your PAS-X administrator in the room if you like.