Manufacturing

A job should move through the plant without three people chasing it.

Order to production to shipment. We map how a job actually moves through your operation — not the router, the real thing — then automate the purchasing, status, quality exceptions and paperwork that trail behind it.

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Sound familiar?

The floor runs fine. The office around it is doing the running.

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Every job status question means walking out to the floor or calling a supervisor who is mid-changeover.

Plant manager
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Purchasing works off a shortage report somebody rebuilds in a spreadsheet every morning.

Operations director
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A non-conformance gets written up on paper and then somebody has to remember to do something about it.

Quality manager

The bottleneck in most plants we walk into is not a machine. It is the office coordination wrapped around the machines.

Where the hours are

Where the coordination costs you, in a plant specifically.

These are the eight we look at first in a manufacturing operation. Which of them are worth building in yours is what the automation map answers, with the hours and the cost attached to each.

Order to job release

An order lands and becomes a job with the right routing, materials and dates against it, without somebody re-typing the customer’s PO into the ERP.

Shortage and reorder

Demand against on-hand and on-order, checked continuously rather than rebuilt each morning, with the purchase requisition drafted and waiting for approval.

Job status without asking

Where every job is, updated from the floor as it moves, so scheduling, sales and the customer all read the same thing without anyone being interrupted.

Quality exceptions

A non-conformance raises itself the moment it is logged, routes to the person who can disposition it, and holds the affected material until they do.

Supplier chasing

Confirmations, promised dates and late POs tracked and chased automatically, so purchasing spends its day on the exceptions rather than the list.

Certificates and paperwork

Cert of conformance, material certs, packing lists and shipping documents generated from the job record and attached where they belong.

Shipment and invoice

The shipment event raises the invoice the same day, against the right PO and terms, instead of at week’s end when somebody reconciles.

Machine and maintenance

Run hours and downtime captured against the asset, with preventive work scheduled off the counter rather than off a calendar reminder.

The difference on the floor

Same team. Same day. A different operation.

Moment in the work
Today
On the system
An order arrives
Someone reads the PO and keys it into the ERP
Parsed, matched to the part and priced, ready for release
Sales asks about a job
A call to the floor and a supervisor pulled off a changeover
The status is already current, and sales can see it
A part goes short
Found on tomorrow’s shortage report, if it is rebuilt
Flagged when demand crosses cover, with the req drafted
A non-conformance is written
Sits on paper until somebody walks it over
Raises itself, routes, and holds the material
A supplier misses a date
Discovered when the material does not turn up
Chased on the promised date, escalated when it slips
A truck ships
Invoice raised whenever billing gets to it
Documents generated and the invoice raised that day
Your systems

We build on what you already run.

Your ERP or MRP stays where it is and your team keeps working the way they know. The automation sits between the systems, doing what people were doing by hand. Where a supplier or customer portal has no way in, we automate the browser instead.

ERP / MRP MES Quality systems Scheduling Purchasing Accounting Shipping and carrier portals CAD and PLM Spreadsheets Customer portals
FAQ

What plant owners ask.

Do you touch the machines or the controls?
No. We work in the office layer — the systems, the paperwork and the coordination around production. Anything on the machine side stays with your controls people and your integrator.
Our ERP is old and does not have an API. Now what?
Common in this industry, and not a blocker. Where a system has no interface, we automate it the way a person uses it, through the screen. Slower to build than an API, and it works.
We run a lot of custom and one-off work. Does this still apply?
The parts differ; the process around them usually does not. Quoting, releasing, purchasing, chasing, shipping and invoicing follow the same shape whether the job is a repeat or a one-off. If the process genuinely changes every time, we will tell you so in week one.
Will the floor have to learn a new system?
The opposite. The floor keeps whatever it uses today. What changes is that the office stops asking them for updates, because the system already has them.
What to expect
A short discovery call.
  1. 01How the work actually moves through your business today
  2. 02What you have already tried, and where it came apart
  3. 03Whether there is enough here to be worth building
20 minutes Video call

You will be talking to the people who would actually build it. If there is something worth doing, we will tell you what it would look like. If there is not, then we build a relationship.

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