Industries
Connected plants, joined-up planning
Plant data, supply planning and the systems between them, for manufacturers who need the shop floor and the office to see the same numbers.
Talk to our manufacturing team
What is changing
Manufacturers have connected their machines, but the data rarely travels far. Production, quality, maintenance and planning still run on separate systems, and a change in demand can take a week to reach the line. The plants pulling ahead are connecting the layers between the sensor and the spreadsheet.
Supply shocks have made resilience a board topic. Planners need to see alternatives, not only shortages.
Many lines run equipment with decades of life left, controlled by software that cannot be patched in the usual way.
Three shifts on the plant floor
From connected machines to connected decisions
Sensor data is only useful when it reaches the people scheduling production, ordering parts and planning maintenance.
Planning for disruption
Supply plans now have to show the second-best option as clearly as the best, and switch between them in hours.
Security on the plant floor
Plants connected to the network can be attacked through it. Operational technology needs the same care as the office, in its own way.
By the numbers
Manufacturing, measured
- 23%
- Less unplanned downtime on lines where we brought maintenance and machine data together.
- 1 shift
- Time for a change in demand to reach the production schedule, down from a week, after planning and plant systems were joined.
- 59%
- Share of technology budget the manufacturing leaders in our research spend keeping existing systems running.
- 14
- Plants connected to a single data platform across our three largest manufacturing programs.
The maintenance dividend, KIASA research, 2026 (13 of the 140 engineering leaders surveyed work in manufacturing); KIASA delivery records, 2021 to 2026.
What we do
How we help manufacturers
We start on one line in one plant, prove the value there, and then repeat it plant by plant.
Plant data platforms
Machine, quality and energy data collected once, cleaned at the edge and made available to every team that needs it.
Cloud and platform engineeringSupply and production planning
Planning and ERP configured to how your plants really run, with scenarios planners can compare before they commit.
Enterprise platformsPredictive maintenance
Models that warn of failures weeks ahead, built with maintenance engineers and judged by the stoppages they prevent.
Artificial intelligence and dataShop floor integration
Execution, quality and ERP systems connected so an order, a batch and a defect can be traced end to end.
Integration and APIsOperational technology security
Plant networks mapped, segmented and monitored, with changes planned around production rather than against it.
CybersecurityEnergy per unit
Energy use measured by line and by product, so savings can be found, priced and proved.
Green software
Plant data
Between the sensor and the spreadsheet
Most plants already collect more data than they use. It sits in historians and controllers, in formats only one engineer understands, and reaches planners as a weekly export.
We connect those sources to one platform with a shared model of the plant: lines, machines, batches and orders. A planner, a maintenance engineer and a quality manager can then look at the same stoppage and agree on what happened.
See integration and APIs
Supply planning
A plan that expects the unexpected
A supply plan built for efficiency alone breaks at the first late shipment. Planners then rebuild it by hand, in spreadsheets, under pressure.
We set up planning so that alternatives are part of the plan: second suppliers, substitute materials, other lines. When something changes, planners compare the options side by side and switch in hours, with the cost of each choice in plain view.
See enterprise platformsOur work in action
What we have built with manufacturers
Bracken Components
An automotive parts maker predicts bearing failures two weeks ahead
Vibration data and maintenance records combined on four lines, with unplanned stoppages down by a quarter in the first year.
Explore
Hollin Precision
A machining group runs nine plants on one production schedule
One planning model across nine sites, so work can move to the plant with capacity rather than the plant that was asked.
Explore
Greyhaven Packaging
A packaging maker cuts the energy in each tonne by 12%
Energy metered by line and by product revealed where the savings were, and paid for the project inside a year.
Explore
What we think
Reading for manufacturing leaders
Research report
The maintenance dividend
Plants spend most of their technology budget keeping old systems running. How the best performers reinvest the difference.
Research report
Security debt: the quiet risk on the balance sheet
Unpatched controllers on a connected plant floor are debt with interest. A way to measure it and plan the repayments.
Perspective
Green software is mostly just good software
Energy per unit is a plant measure. The same thinking applies to the software that runs the plant.
Research report
AI in the back office: where the first real savings are showing up
Supply teams are among the first to see real savings from AI, in tasks most people would call routine.
Our leaders
Manufacturing leads
Engineers who have worked on plant floors as well as in planning offices.
Henrik Vogel
Industry Lead, Manufacturing
Began his career as a controls engineer. Leads our work with discrete and process manufacturers.
Ana Kovačević
Plant Data Lead
Connects historians, controllers and execution systems into one model of the plant.
Suresh Nair
Supply Planning Lead
Sets up planning that shows the alternatives as clearly as the plan, and switches between them in hours.
Connect the floor to the plan
Tell us which line or plant you would start with. A partner from our manufacturing team will reply within two working days.