Use cases/Manufacturing
Department · Manufacturing

From five OTIF formulas to
one plant-to-exec path.

Ops, quality, and IT share sensor and ERP metadata, without moving operational rows off the floor.

Overview

Plant truth that Finance can close on.

Yield, throughput, and inventory only help if they share one grain with the books. A weekly PDF is how defects age. A nightly CSV between MES and ERP is not a strategy.

Company Brain puts scrap, rework, and good units on shared definitions. A line comparison is a cut of the graph, not two MES extracts. Exceptions have owners on the floor.

This page is for plant ops, quality, and the IT team that cannot let operational rows leave the site.

  • Plant and network ops who need one OTIF
  • Quality defending defect-rate back to sensors
  • IT and OT owning MES and ERP as one join
  • Finance that must close on plant actuals without a monthly remap
One OTIFSame formula on the floor and the exec tile
Floor ownersHold, scrap, and late in shift, not in a weekly PDF
Metadata onlyNo production sensor payloads leave the site
Company Brain

What Company Brain is, and how it helps Manufacturing.

Company Brain is plant truth that Finance can close on. Yield, OTIF, and inventory share grain with the books. Exceptions have floor owners. Metadata stays near the site.

Ops, quality, and IT stop running two clocks. A line comparison is a cut of the graph, not two MES extracts. A schema change shows reporting blast radius first.

  • One OTIF on the floor and the exec tile.
  • Hold, scrap, and late sit on a live board, not a weekly PDF.
  • MES and ERP meet as a named join, not a nightly CSV.
  • Plant actuals land in close without a monthly remap.
Use cases

Go from OT and IT silos to one operations graph

One definition

Stop reconciling plants in the weekly ops review

OTIF and defect-rate trace from floor sensors to the exec dashboard. Same formula everywhere.

  • Plant-level drill-down on a certified metric.
  • Quality can show the path to source sensors.
  • Promise, ship, and miss sit on one object with a reason code.
Metrics layer Try the demo
Quality

Yield that means the same on every line

Scrap, rework, and good units share definitions. A line comparison is a cut of Company Brain, not two MES extracts.

  • Shared yield object.
  • Line comparison without dual extracts.
  • Hold and scrap with owners now.
Quality Try the demo
Pre-migration

See reporting blast radius before a plant cutover

Unplanned downtime is a lineage problem. Run impact first.

  • Supply-chain and quality models in one query.
  • Owners notified before the change window.
  • Unplanned reporting downtime becomes optional.
Context graph Try the demo
Unified metadata

Sensors and ERP finally meet

IoT ingest and ERP batches in one catalog. No row movement off the plant network.

  • Self-host when OT data cannot leave the site.
  • One map from plant_floor_sensors to OTIF tiles.
  • The join is a named contract, not a nightly CSV.
Self-host Try the demo
Books

Stock that Finance can close

On-hand, in-transit, and reserved share IDs with the ledger. Cycle count is an exception path, not a surprise.

  • Stock and ledger on one join.
  • Named reserve.
  • Count as exception, not a monthly shock.
Trust layer Try the demo
Ops

Bottlenecks with a named constraint

Cycle time, WIP, and capacity sit on the same grain. The constraint is visible before the standup becomes a debate.

  • Named constraint on the board.
  • WIP and cycle on one object.
  • Standup from truth.
Ops Try the demo
How it lands

Floor to board. Same brain.

Metadata only

Ingest IoT and ERP catalogs

Credentials stay local. Metroflow never needs production sensor payloads.

  • Works beside the historian and the warehouse.
  • No rip-and-replace of MES or ERP.
  • Lot, serial, and work-order IDs first. If the unit cannot be named, quality is theater.
Workspace Try the demo
Quality + logistics

OTIF and defect-rate with owners

Ops and quality sign the same spec.

  • Cross-plant rollup with entity-level lineage.
  • Alerts when a plant feed goes stale.
  • MES and ERP as one story.
Trust layer Try the demo
On-call

When iot_ingest_plant_a fails

See every OTIF and quality tile in the blast radius.

  • Cited comms to plant and HQ.
  • Company Brain for ops Q&A.
  • Exceptions on the floor in shift, not in a weekly PDF.
Company Brain Meet Company Brain
Finance

Plant actuals land in close without a remap

If Finance remaps the plant every month, the grain is wrong. Fix the objects. Then close.

  • No monthly remap.
  • Plant to close on shared grain.
  • New lines inherit the same objects.
Close Try the demo
Resources

Manufacturing resources

The plant playbook plus two articles for ops, quality, and IT.

Playbooks

Industry

Manufacturing & Logistics

OTIF, defect-rate, plant schema changes. IoT and ERP metadata in one map.

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Guide

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