Plant, planning and suppliers in step
Shop-floor systems, ERP and supplier networks rarely share a vocabulary, so planners end up guessing at the signal between demand, capacity and materials.
Manufacturing data is seldom missing. It is stranded — on machines that do not publish it, in an ERP that cannot receive it, and in supplier emails that nobody can query.
What we bring, and what it changes
Plant-floor systems, ERP and supplier networks rarely speak the same language, so planners lose the signal between demand, capacity and materials.
Filed under Industry & productionWhere the signal is lost
Machine data
Lines instrumented well enough to run themselves, and not at all for anyone trying to plan around them.
Planning
Schedules built on last week's capacity assumptions, because this week's never reach the ERP.
Suppliers
Materials confirmed over email, so the shortage becomes visible on the day it stops the line.
Maintenance
Service intervals set by calendar rather than by the condition the equipment is actually reporting.
What a connected plant actually publishes
- Machine state, cycle times and downtime reasons
- Yield, scrap and rework by line and shift
- Work-in-progress against the schedule
- Material consumption and stock positions
- Supplier acknowledgements and ship notices
- Condition signals feeding maintenance models
From an instrumented line to a plan worth trusting
Instrument
Collect from the equipment and historians already on the floor, whatever their vintage.
Normalize
One model for machine, order and material, so two systems stop naming the same thing differently.
Integrate
ERP, MES and supplier feeds joined, with the exceptions raised rather than buried.
Predict
Maintenance and demand models trained on the history the pipeline has been accumulating.
What manufacturers ask first
Do we have to replace the ERP to do this?
Usually not. Most of the value comes from getting accurate data into and out of the ERP you already run. Modernization is a separate decision, taken on its own merits once the reporting is honest enough to make the case either way.
Our machines are old — can they be instrumented?
In most plants, yes. Older equipment is read through PLCs, historians or edge gateways rather than a modern API, and the pipeline treats those as just another source. Where a machine genuinely cannot publish, we work from the systems around it.
How long before planners see anything?
We sequence the work so one line or one product family reports properly first, typically well before the full estate is connected. That first slice is what tells you whether the model matches the floor.
Other sectors
All 11 industries →Automotive
OEMs, suppliers and dealers run separate systems against a shared schedule, so a parts shortage or a warranty pattern becomes visible later than it should.
Read moreIndustry & productionPackaging
Order intake, production planning and customer systems often run apart from one another, leaving teams reconciling spreadsheets instead of responding to demand.
Read moreHealth & life sciencesPharmaceuticals
Validated systems, serialisation mandates and trial data all have to stand up to inspection, while the commercial side needs the same information moving at speed.
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Tell us which of these you operate in and where the systems are getting in the way. We will come back with the practices, the people and a realistic sequence.