Work orders that close where they were signed off

The floor is where the plan meets reality. We put operation sign-off, material issue and deviation capture at the station, so the record is made by the person who did the work.

Called about

Production booking happens at the end of the shift, from memory.

Rework is done but never costed, so job margin is fiction.

A deviation is a paper form in a supervisor’s drawer.

Nobody can say which operation a job is sitting at right now.

Work orders

What the shop floor sees

Work orders by line and shift, with stoppages and quality holds visible as they happen.

What we implement

Modules, and the seams between them

Configured against your routings, not a reference model. The seams get as much attention as the modules.

Routings and operations

Operation sequence, work centres, standard times and the documents each station needs to see.

Routing R-118 · 5 operations
OP10 Cut WC 1 · 12 min OP20 Weld WC 3 · 26 min OP30 Paint WC 5 · 40 min OP40 Inspect QA bay · 8 min

Work order execution

Release, material issue, operation start and finish, and labour booked as it happens.

WO-9042 · in progress
Material issued Done Current operation OP20 · 00:14 Labour booked 3.2 h Signed off OP10 only

Quality and deviations

Inspection at the operation, non-conformance raised at the station, disposition routed by severity.

NCR-3311 · severity 2
Raised at OP30 · Paint Disposition Rework Cost booked ₹ 1,840 Approval Awaiting QA

Traceability

Batch and serial genealogy from raw material through to the unit that shipped.

Serial SN-88214 · genealogy
Raw batch B-2209 Operations passed 5 of 5 Shipped on 2026-08-12 Recall scope 142 units

Included in every MES scope

  • Routing and work centre map
  • Station hardware review
  • Sign-off and role matrix
  • Deviation severity model
  • Document control at station
  • Rework and scrap accounting
  • Shift handover report
  • Operator training on the floor

The seams we design first

MES · ERP Work order release, material issue and production booking
MES · IMS Component consumption and finished goods receipt
MES · WMS Kit staging, line feed and putaway of finished stock
MES · SCM Actual cycle times feeding the next plan
Assisted layer

What AI does on a shop floor, specifically

Pattern spotting across records that already exist. No model signs off an operation.

Deviation clustering

Non-conformances grouped by the operation, tool and shift they came from, so a recurring cause is visible before the monthly review.

Cycle time drift

Operations running slower than their own history flagged with the jobs that show it, rather than a variance report at month end.

Operator assist

Work instructions and prior deviations for the same operation surfaced at the station, in the operator’s language.

Sign-off gaps

Jobs moving forward with an operation unsigned or a document unread, listed before they reach dispatch.

Connects to

Where an MES scope usually grows next

The integration layer
ERP

Enterprise resource planning

Finance, procurement, production and customer records on one ledger.

 IMS

Inventory management

Valuation, cycle counts and balances that reconcile to finance.

 INTEG

Integration layer

Interfaces with retries, logs and a named owner for failures.
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Thirty-one decisions that determine whether a rollout lands, most of which come before anyone configures anything. Readable in full, no email required.

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We will show you where the record should have been made and what it would have cost to know sooner.

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