Overview
Who it is for
Discrete and process manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and the operations and IT leaders responsible for plants that run on a mix of an ERP, a few commercial systems, a lot of spreadsheets, and the knowledge of people who have been there twenty years. The symptoms are a plant that cannot be seen from the office, data trapped in machines and clipboards, a system that worked at one-tenth the volume, and a weekly report that describes last week.
What we deliver
Systems that make the plant legible and the processes repeatable:
- Shop-floor telemetry. Machine, sensor, and operator data collected continuously, landed in one model, and connected to orders and schedules.
- MES integration or build. Work orders, routing, traceability, quality capture, and operator interfaces, either integrated with a commercial MES or built to fit the operation.
- ERP modernization. Reliable integration between the ERP, the floor, suppliers, and customers, with the processes that happen outside the ERP moved into software with an audit trail.
- Operational dashboards for OEE, downtime, throughput, quality, and on-time delivery, built around the morning walk.
- Cloud architecture for the data platform, with edge collection where the plant network requires it and infrastructure defined as code.
- Automated workflows for scheduling updates, quality escalations, maintenance triggers, and the reports that used to be assembled by hand.
How the engagement runs
- Listen. A 60-minute call about the lines, the systems, the spreadsheets, and the questions the plant cannot answer today. A one-page scope within 48 hours.
- Discover. We walk the floor, map the data sources and the gaps, define the plant data model, and build a working slice: telemetry from one line into one dashboard, or one integration between the ERP and the floor. The sprint ends with a data flow diagram, the model, and a build plan.
- Build. Lines, integrations, and dashboards land one at a time, each validated against what the operators already know to be true. Weekly demos show real production data.
- Hand off. Your internal owner, often in plant IT or operations engineering, runs the platform for two weeks while we taper, then a 90-day standby.
Typical stack
Edge collection where needed, a streaming or batch pipeline into a managed data platform on your cloud, a relational store for the plant model and audit trail, a governed warehouse for reporting, and the BI tool your team already has. Integrations with the ERP and commercial systems use their supported interfaces, wrapped in adapters that are tested and monitored. Everything is infrastructure as code, so a second plant is a configuration change rather than a second project.
Common starting points
The requests we hear most from manufacturers are a downtime and OEE dashboard that is trusted, an ERP that finally knows what the floor is doing, traceability that does not depend on paper, and the retirement of the scheduling spreadsheet. Each is a fixed-scope, fixed-term engagement with a named lead and an internal owner at the end.
The services that come up most in manufacturing are integrations, dashboards and analytics, and cloud architecture.