THROUGHPUT AND BOTTLENECK ANALYSIS FOR MANUFACTURERS
HOW IT WORKS
01
Start from the prebuilt agent
It already knows parts, BOMs, routings, work centres, purchase orders and scrap codes, and the checks your estimators and buyers run.
02
Configure it to your tools, systems and parameters
We connect each plant’s ERP, Coupa, invoices, the historian and quote emails, and load your cost standards, margin targets and approval chain.
03
Release it into the work
It starts on live quotes, invoices and shift notes. Our platform checks every draft against its source and stops for approval.
04
It works like a trained member of your team
Work arrives ranked with the action drafted. A named person decides, and nothing reaches a customer or supplier without approval.
OUR PLATFORM
Your cost standards, margin targets, capacity rules and approval chain, plus what your estimators and plant managers know, written down as the playbook the agent follows.
Every plant connected where it sits, one record per part, and every figure traced to its invoice, receipt or work order.
Every draft is checked against its source and your rules, and the agent stops where a person has to approve.
It sees only what the person it works for can see, and every step is logged.
THE SYSTEMS IT READS
Orders, costs and receipts at plant level
Finance and the general ledger
Purchase orders and approval history
What you paid, line by line
Spot prices that never reached an ERP
One part, three part numbers
Line controls and PLC data
Machine and drive telemetry
Machine-level runtime and cycle data
Why a line stopped, in the shift lead’s words
Cost to serve by customer and lane
Rebate accruals and credits nobody joined
FAQ
Most utilisation reports run on planned hours, and a plant does not. Availability, performance and quality are measured separately, with causes taken from the floor rather than the schedule.
Shift notes, machine counters, the maintenance log, the quality log and the production schedule. Every one of these already exists.
No. It makes the case honest and your team decides. If the constraint sits idle for recurring reasons, the agent shows what more capacity would really buy before money is committed.
Do we need a data team to run this?
No. We connect your systems, configure the agent to your rules and run the layer underneath it. Your team reviews and approves the agent’s work; nobody has to build or maintain data pipelines.
Do we have to move our data into a new warehouse first?
No. The agent works across the systems you already run, through a governed context layer that keeps every figure traced to the record it came from. If you already have a warehouse, it becomes one more source.
Why not build this ourselves?
You can, and for some teams it is the right call. The build is rarely the hard part. Resolving the same machine, work order and shift across systems, keeping definitions consistent and getting the team to use it every week is where internal projects stall. We take that on so your engineers do not become platform operators.
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