Manufacturing & Industrial
The plant doesn’t stop because your software has an outage.
Manufacturing software has an unusual failure mode: it is often technically operational and practically ignored. Operators keep a paper log because the terminal takes too long, and the ERP’s inventory figure drifts from what is physically on the rack. We build for the floor first (fast, glove-friendly, offline-tolerant) because data that isn’t captured at the moment of work is data you don’t have. Our work sits in a specific place: above the control layer, beside the ERP. We are not your controls integrator, and we are not going to rebuild your ERP. We build the layer between them, as an application rather than as a screen inside the control platform.
What we hear
The problems that actually show up.
Not a market overview. These are the specific failures that bring people to us in this sector.
ERP that doesn’t know what the floor knows
Production reporting arrives in batches, hours late, hand-entered. Planning decisions are made against a picture of the plant that is already wrong.
Traceability that fails under pressure
You can trace a lot, given two days and a spreadsheet. In a recall or a customer audit you have hours, and genealogy needs to be a query, not an investigation.
OT/IT boundary neglected
PLCs and historians hold the ground truth, but getting it into business systems safely, without opening the control network, is nobody’s job title. A unified namespace helps and is not the finish line: publishing clean data is the tractable half, and the applications that were supposed to justify it are the half that stalls.
Maintenance that’s reactive by default
You have sensor data and a CMMS, and no path between them. Unplanned downtime remains the largest controllable cost in the plant.
A screen inside the control platform, doing an application’s job
A Perspective view or a no-code app is often the right answer, and when it is we will say so. What it cannot give you is a modern language and dependency stack, a test suite and pipeline that let someone change it safely in three years, per-person identity and an audit trail that survives a question about one record on one day, and a blast radius that stops short of the control network. When the thing you need holds all four, it has to live outside the platform.
What we build here
Systems we typically build in this sector.
Some of these are whole products; some are one screen that removed a week of manual work. Both count.
- Manufacturing execution and shop-floor terminals
- Digital work instructions and operator guidance
- Quality management, SPC and non-conformance workflows
- Lot and serial genealogy with recall-grade traceability
- OEE and downtime capture with real reason coding
- CMMS integration and condition-based maintenance models
- Supplier portals, ASN handling and inbound quality
- Production scheduling and finite-capacity planning tools
Integrates with
The estate you already have.
We work through supported interfaces, not screen-scraping that breaks at the next upgrade.
Built to
The standards this sector answers to.
Engineered in from the start. Retrofitting conformance costs several times as much and produces a worse result.
Case studies
Work in this sector.
Further reading
Written up at length.
- Systems5 min read
The badge nobody turned off
Collecting the card at the exit interview feels like the end of the offboarding. The card was never the thing that opened the door, and the record that did is usually held in more places than one team can name.
- Security5 min read
You cannot practice on somebody else's network
A range full of well-built generic scenarios teaches tool proficiency, which is real and which transfers. The decisions that go wrong during an actual incident are specific to one estate, and those are the ones a generic environment cannot rehearse.
- Strategy6 min read
Cited rather than ranked
An answer engine does not hand out positions. It retrieves passages, writes an answer and names the sources it leaned on, which makes the unit of work a section rather than a page and makes most of what is sold as AI SEO unmeasurable.
Sources
- 1.32 CFR Part 170: Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program (opens in a new tab), Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
- 2.SP 800-82 Rev. 3: Guide to Operational Technology (OT) Security (opens in a new tab), NIST
Next step
Working in manufacturing & industrial?
Bring the specific failure, not a requirements document. Forty-five minutes and we’ll tell you what we’d do about it.
- Phone
- (214) 723-2510
- Reply
- A person replies, not a sequence: within one business day, from someone who would be on the engagement.