Manufacturing
The skepticism is earned. A demo that works on clean data needs to survive the reality of a floor where the ERP, the MES, and the spreadsheet that actually runs the line disagree.
Manufacturing runs on systems whose incentives were never aligned. The ERP thinks a job is done when it is booked, the MES knows when it is actually cut, and the human coordinating the line has the real truth in a printed schedule with handwriting on it. AI work here lives or dies on reconciling those three before adding anything on top.
The second reality is that the floor changes the schedule faster than any planner. Margin, quoting, and load come from historical records that are patchy and tribal. The question is whether you can make the tribal knowledge queryable without pretending the rapids in the data do not exist.
What you get
The promise, kept honest. Direction, not invented numbers.
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Quoting pulled from prints, history, and material cost in minutes rather than days
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Production scheduling that anticipates a constraint before it stops a machine
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SOPs and tribal knowledge queryable, instead of surviving in one person's head
The constraints
The parts that make this industry different. If one of these sounds like your problem, that is the conversation to have.
- The ERP, the MES, and the floor never agree — reconciliation happens before intelligence
- Quoting history lives in files, quotes, and one person's memory
- Machine and labor identifiers are not clean primary keys across systems
- A model that suggests a non-feasible schedule is worse than no schedule — constraints are load-bearing
How we deliver
The engineering gates that separate a demo from a deployment in this industry.
- Reconciliation of ERP, MES, and shop-floor notes before any model is pointed at the data
- Scheduling built around machine feasibility, not a spreadsheet's availability
- Setup that treats a plant's messy identifiers as data to clean, not a reason to refuse the work
Call us when
- Quoting takes days because pricing lives with the person who quotes
- Production scheduling is reactive, and the floor knows before the planner does
- The drive is full of SOPs nobody reads—yet
Building in manufacturing?
Describe the situation in a paragraph. We will tell you what we would look at first and what it would cost to find out.