Manufacturing & export
Manufacturing
Knowing what is on the floor, what it is waiting for, and whether it will make its date — while there is still time to change the answer.
Context
What this sector actually looks like
Most production problems are visibility problems. The information exists, but it is on a whiteboard, in a supervisor’s head, and in a spreadsheet updated at the end of the day, so decisions are made against a picture that is several hours old.
Capture has to be cheap or it does not happen. A system that requires a supervisor to sit at a terminal will be filled in at the end of the shift from memory, which is worse than not collecting it.
Once capture is current, the useful work begins: which orders are at risk, where the queue actually is, and which machine or stage is the constraint this week rather than in theory.
The hard parts
Where it usually breaks
Problems worth naming before proposing anything to fix them.
Stale status
Production state known accurately only at the end of the day.
Planning by memory
Schedules built from experience, with no record of how the last estimate compared to reality.
Quality records
Inspection results recorded inconsistently, and asked for later.
Machine downtime
Stoppage reasons known informally and never aggregated into anything actionable.
What we build for it
Where software earns its cost here
Shop floor capture
Stage completion recorded in seconds on a phone or a shared tablet.
Schedule risk flags
Orders unlikely to meet their date, surfaced while the schedule can still change.
Quality logging
Inspection captured against the batch, retrievable when a customer asks.
Downtime analysis
Stoppages categorised and aggregated so the recurring causes become visible.
FAQ
Questions people actually ask
Do we need new machines or sensors?
Usually not to start. Manual capture at each stage delivers most of the visibility benefit; sensors are worth adding once you know which measurement is actually driving decisions.
Will supervisors adopt it?
Only if it costs them less time than it saves. That is a design requirement, and the fastest way to fail here is to build for the office and roll it out to the floor.
Can it work alongside our existing ERP?
Yes. Adding floor-level capture to an ERP that has none is a common and comparatively small piece of work.
Start here
Tell us what is slow, manual, or breaking.
Answer a few questions and get a written brief back — scope, proposed architecture, and what it would take to build.