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Real-time visibility on a factory floor that still runs on paper.

MES, OEE tracking, and shop-floor agents for manufacturers whose SAP modules cover planning but stop at the cell door. Built for production environments where supervisors still compile downtime reports by hand.

Volume grows. Headcount doesn't.

Mid-market manufacturers frequently run ERP and spreadsheets — and nothing in between. Production data lives on paper shift reports, in operator heads, and in Excel. OEE is calculated weekly, not watched live. Root cause of downtime is argued in meetings rather than visible in data.

Four patterns we deploy repeatedly.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

Touch-screen interfaces at each cell for operators to capture output, downtime, and scrap. Live integration back to SAP Production Orders. Digital SOPs and drawings at the point of work.

OEE and OLE dashboards

Availability, performance, quality, labour efficiency — calculated live, visible on floor displays and supervisor tablets.

IoT machine data capture

MQTT and OPC-UA from CNC, PLC, and legacy plant. Mixed fleets handled.

Engineering Change Notification (ECN) management

Replaces the ECN-by-email nightmare with a central system showing every change, every approver, every status, with audit trail.

Shop-floor AI agents

Early-stage: agents that analyse downtime patterns, suggest scheduling changes, and flag anomalies from machine signals before they become failures.

Pre-built when it fits. Bespoke when it doesn't.

Production-Flo (our MES platform)

A mid-market-appropriate MES already deployed across multiple value streams. Shop-floor capture, SAP integration, live OEE out of the box.

About Production-Flo

Bespoke integrations

For mixed-fleet IoT, legacy PLC integration, or production workflows outside standard SAP modules, we build on top of Production-Flo or from the ground up.

See how we scope bespoke work

Ready for a manufacturing operations conversation?