Manufacturing
Make product, not paperwork.
Manufacturers lose time and margin to production planning, inventory gaps, and downtime nobody saw coming.
We find the operational work between order and delivery, rebuild it inside your ERP and MES tools, and keep it running so your operations stay predictable.
The math
23%
of unplanned downtime traced to information gaps, not machines
Lines stop not just because equipment fails, but because a reorder was missed, a schedule went stale, or a defect pattern nobody logged. The paperwork gap costs more margin than the hardware.
Manufacturing clients
Where the hours go
The ops work costing you margin.
Production planning
Schedules built manually from spreadsheets that go stale the moment they're shared.
Inventory management
Stock levels tracked across systems that don't sync, where shortages shut down lines.
Quality control
Defect tracking and root cause analysis done by hand, where patterns get missed.
Downtime reporting
Machine failures logged manually, where insights come too late to prevent the next one.
Step one, always
First we map where those hours actually go.
Every workflow, priced and ranked, so you fix the expensive ones first. This is a live map from a sample company; yours starts filling in the day you sign up.
Some of the stack we plug into
SAPNetSuiteFishbowlIgnition SCADAEpicor
Power BI
Smartsheet
MaintainX
Slack
Notion
HubSpot
Airtable
Zapier
Asana
QuickBooks
StripeWhat we build
What we usually build for manufacturers.
Production scheduling automation
Dynamic schedules that adjust in real-time based on inventory, capacity, and demand.
Inventory and supply chain workflows
Stock levels, reorder points, and supplier coordination automated across your ERP.
Quality management systems
Defect tracking, SPC analysis, and CAPA workflows automated end to end.
Downtime tracking and alerting
Machine failures logged automatically with root cause analysis and predictive alerts.
From the field
~1/3
fewer stockout line stops
A 200-employee contract manufacturer
Production schedules were built every Friday in a spreadsheet, then invalidated by Monday when a supplier slipped or a rush order landed. Planners rebuilt by hand mid-week, and inventory in Fishbowl rarely matched what was on the ERP side.
The result: Schedule rebuilds dropped from a daily habit to exception-only, and stockout-driven line stops fell by roughly a third.
Proof, not promises
Teams like yours, already on the other side.
Questions
What manufacturing teams usually ask.
- Our shop floor systems are old and barely have APIs. Can you still integrate?
- Usually yes. Where there's no clean API we work with database connections, file drops, or SCADA tag exports. We've automated around plenty of systems that predate the word 'API'.
- We can't afford downtime to install this. How disruptive is it?
- The automation runs alongside your existing systems, not instead of them. We build and test in parallel, then cut over one workflow at a time, so no line stops to deploy it.
- Will this replace our ERP or MES?
- No. It fills the gaps between them: the spreadsheets and manual reconciliation your ERP and MES don't cover. Your systems of record stay exactly where they are.
Where next
Not quite your industry?
See what we'd build for you.
We find the work, build and run the fix in the tools you already own, and prove the savings in time and money. Book 30 minutes and we'll show you where the time goes.
Want us to build it for you? See how build work is priced