The operational layer your ERP never covered
Most plants run on an ERP that stops at the office door and a spreadsheet that actually runs production. We build what sits between: planning tools, shop-floor data capture and quality workflows — connected to the machines, synced with the ERP, and rolled out without stopping a single line.
Systems we build in manufacturing
Built around your routing and your machines — not around what a generic MES vendor assumed your plant looks like. A representative list, not a boundary — if the system you need isn't on it, we build that too.
Production planning
Scheduling tools that replace the planner's spreadsheet — capacity, materials and order priorities in one view, replanned in minutes when reality changes instead of overnight.
Shop-floor data capture
Counts, downtime, scrap and operator notes captured at the machine — on terminals, tablets or straight from PLCs — feeding live dashboards instead of end-of-shift paper.
Quality workflows
Inspection plans, non-conformance handling and CAPA flows with full traceability — every lot traceable from raw material to shipped unit, every decision recorded.
Maintenance management
Preventive schedules, breakdown reporting and spare-parts tracking tied to the same machine data — so maintenance runs on hours and cycles, not on memory.
ERP integration
The shop floor and the ERP finally agreeing — orders, confirmations, consumption and stock movements synced automatically, with exceptions routed to a human queue.
Operational reporting
OEE, scrap rates, schedule adherence and cost-per-unit computed from captured data — numbers the morning meeting can act on, not reconstruct.
Where the money leaks
The diagnosis phase prices these in hours, scrap and schedule slippage — before we propose building anything.
The planner's spreadsheet
Production runs on one heroic spreadsheet and the person who understands it. Replanning takes a day; a sick day takes the plan with it.
Paper travellers, late data
Shop-floor reality reaches the office at end of shift — or end of week. Every decision in between is made on stale numbers.
The ERP gap
The ERP says one thing, the floor knows another. Confirmations get batch-entered, stock drifts, and month-end becomes an archaeology project.
Traceability by folder
When an audit or a customer complaint lands, the evidence lives in binders, shared drives and inboxes. Days of assembly for what should be one query.
Four phases, rolled out line by line
Diagnose, estimate, build, operate — with the build phased per line or cell so production never stops. You can stop after any phase and keep everything.
See the full process →- 1Diagnose on the floor
We walk the actual process — planning board to dispatch — and price the manual work and data gaps in hours before proposing anything.
About this phase → - 2Estimate against a metric
Schedule adherence, scrap rate, replanning time, OEE — the estimate names the number the system will be accountable to.
About this phase → - 3Build without stopping production
Phased rollout — one line, one cell, one workflow at a time, running alongside the old way until the new one proves itself.
About this phase → - 4Operate with the machines
Monitoring, alerting and a 90-day warranty ship with the system; then a retainer or a clean handover to your team.
About this phase →
No public manufacturing case study yet — here's what transfers
We won't dress an adjacent project up as a factory story. The method is identical though — baseline first, measured in production — and the nearest analogues are operational platforms of the same shape: a freight quoting and dispatch platform and an order-to-cash automation across four systems. References on a call.
See all case studies →Common questions
Can you connect to our machines and PLCs?
Usually, yes — via OPC UA, MQTT or the machine builder's own interface where one exists. Where a machine is too old to talk, a terminal or sensor at the station captures the same data. The diagnosis maps what's realistically connectable before we promise anything.
We already run an ERP. Does this replace it?
No — it coexists. The ERP stays the commercial system of record; we build the operational layer it never covered and sync the two automatically. Replacing an ERP is almost never the first move, and we'll say so.
Can you roll out without stopping production?
That's the only way we do it. New workflows run in parallel on one line or cell first, the old process stays available as the fallback, and cutover happens per area once the numbers hold — never plant-wide on a weekend.
Do you understand our industry's compliance requirements?
We've built traceability and audit-trail systems, and we design retention, sign-off and access control in from the first milestone. Your quality team defines the requirements; industry context is week one of the diagnosis, not year one.
What does the shop floor actually see?
Simple, fast screens built for gloves and glare — confirm a job, log downtime, flag scrap in seconds. If operators need a manual to use it, we've built the wrong thing.
Which engagement model fits manufacturing work?
A bounded system — planning tool, quality module — fits per-project; a longer digitisation roadmap fits a dedicated team. The diagnosis will recommend one.
What does your planner's spreadsheet actually cost?
The diagnosis session is free — on the floor or on a call, and we'll tell you honestly if software isn't the answer.