Production
The morning production report, already written
OPC UA
Shift counts & downtime read
AI agent
Summarises against plan
Microsoft Teams
Report to the morning meeting
The meeting starts on the numbers, not on collecting them.
Services · Manufacturing Automation
From the machine to the drawing office to the ERP — connected.
The shop floor already records everything, the model already holds the BOM, and the ERP already has the plan. We connect them, check them and turn them into reports, alerts and updates — without touching the machines.
OEE
per machine
Downtime
reason captured
Quality
SPC alerts
Illustration of typical reporting
1Manufacturing process automationProduction, quality and maintenance data from the floor turned into reports and alerts.For: Production, quality & maintenance2Engineering & design automationDrawings, BOMs, MTOs and design checks scripted inside the CAD tools.For: Design & engineering3ERP integrationPlans, orders, materials and suppliers kept in step with the ERP — old software included.For: Planning, purchasing & stores
The problem
The data exists. People still retype it.
In most plants the numbers, drawings and plans are already digital — they just live in systems that do not talk to each other.
The floor records it, the office retypes it
Counts and downtime copied off HMI screens and log sheets into Excel.
Designers doing data entry
Title blocks, revisions and BOMs updated file by file instead of designing.
ERP and reality drift apart
The plan says one thing, the floor did another, and nobody knows until dispatch.
Old software nobody can connect
Desktop ERPs, in-house tools and Excel macros that were never built to talk.
1Manufacturing process automation
Production, quality and maintenance reporting that arrives on its own
We read production, quality and maintenance data from PLCs, SCADA and historians, join it with the ERP, and turn it into operational reports, alerts and follow-ups.
- Siemens
- Rockwell Automation
- Schneider Electric
- ABB
- Ignition SCADA
- OPC UA
- MQTT
- Historians
- Node-RED
- Grafana
- InfluxDB
- Python
Read-only on the shop floor. We read from PLCs, SCADA and historians — we never write to machines or control systems.
Production reports from the shop floor
Shift counts, cycle times and rejects read from PLCs, SCADA and historians — the daily production report written before the morning meeting.
- Siemens
- Rockwell Automation
- OPC UA
OEE & downtime, live
Availability, performance and quality per machine, with downtime reasons captured instead of reconstructed at the end of the week.
- Ignition SCADA
- Grafana
- InfluxDB
Quality data that raises its own alarm
Inspection sheets and gauge readings turned into SPC charts, with an alert and a drafted NCR the moment a trend goes out of tolerance.
- Microsoft Excel
- AI agent
- Power BI
Maintenance before the breakdown
Running hours, alarms and vibration readings turn into maintenance work orders and spare-part checks before a machine stops.
- MQTT
- Node-RED
- Google Sheets
Material certificates checked, not filed
Mill test certificates and inspection reports read by document AI, matched to heat numbers and POs, and gaps flagged before goods are accepted.
- AI agent
- Gmail
- Google Drive
2Engineering & design automation
Drawings, BOMs and design checks — without the repetitive clicks
Designers lose days to work that is really data handling: updating hundreds of drawings, copying BOMs and MTOs into Excel, checking specs line by line. Design tools expose their models to scripts — so that work can run on its own.
- AutoCAD
- AutoCAD Plant 3D
- SolidWorks
- Autodesk Inventor
- Autodesk Revit
- AVEVA E3D / PDMS
- Hexagon Smart 3D
- CAESAR II
- CATIA
- PTC Creo
- Tekla Structures
- Navisworks
- MicroStation
- SketchUp
- Ansys
Batch run · illustration
412 drawings updated
3 need a designer’s look
Drawing sets updated in bulk
Title blocks, revisions, layers and xrefs changed across hundreds of drawings at once — then batch-plotted to PDF with a list of anything that failed.
- AutoCAD
- MicroStation
BOM & MTO straight to Excel and ERP
Bills of material and material take-offs pulled from the model, cleaned and pushed to Excel, SAP, Tally or Odoo — no retyping.
- SolidWorks
- Autodesk Inventor
- AutoCAD Plant 3D
Piping spec & line-class checks
Line class, schedule, rating and branch fittings checked against the piping spec on every line — with a failure list instead of a manual review.
- AutoCAD Plant 3D
- AVEVA E3D / PDMS
- Hexagon Smart 3D
Isometrics & drawing registers
Isometrics generated in batches, and the drawing register, revision log and transmittals kept up to date automatically.
- AutoCAD Plant 3D
- AVEVA E3D / PDMS
Design configurators from a spreadsheet
Part and assembly variants, with their drawings, generated from a parameter sheet — so a sales enquiry becomes a model without a redraw.
- SolidWorks
- Autodesk Inventor
- PTC Creo
Model data to reports & analysis inputs
Quantities, weights, clash results and stress-analysis inputs prepared from the model and summarised for the review meeting.
- Navisworks
- Autodesk Revit
- CAESAR II
Built with:AutoLISP & AutoCAD .NET APISolidWorks & Inventor APIAVEVA PML / .NETRevit & Navisworks APIBatch scriptingPython
3ERP integration
The ERP, the floor and legacy software in the same picture
Plans, orders, materials and suppliers checked against what actually happened — including software that was never built to connect.
Plan versus actual, against the ERP
Sales orders and production plans compared with what the floor produced — delays flagged and the dispatch plan updated.
- SAP
- Tally
- Odoo
BOM & MTO into the ERP
Bills of material taken from the model, checked for missing codes and prepared for upload — not retyped.
- SolidWorks
- AutoCAD Plant 3D
- SAP
Purchasing for production material
PO confirmations, ASNs and late deliveries checked on every line, with supplier follow-up drafted for approval.
- SAP
- Microsoft Excel
- Gmail
Legacy software brought into the loop
Where there is API or full access, automated inside the software. Where there is not, as much as possible from outside — file exports, a read-only database user, or screen automation where the licence allows.
- Tally
- MySQL
- Microsoft Excel
Purchasing in your ERP? PO confirmation, ASN tracking and supplier follow-up have their own page — with a 2-minute demo.
Procurement & ERP →Use cases
One from each area
Each follows the same idea: read the data where it already lives, check it, and hand people only the exceptions.
Illustrative workflows — what gets built, not client results
Design office
A revision across a whole drawing set
Microsoft Excel
Revision list
AutoCAD
Title blocks updated, PDFs plotted
AI agent
Failures listed for a designer
Hundreds of drawings updated in one run, with the exceptions named.
Quality & stores
Material certificates checked before goods are accepted
Gmail
Certificate arrives
AI agent
Reads heat number & grade
SAP
Matched to the PO, gaps flagged
A missing or mismatched certificate is caught at the gate, not at the audit.
Technologies & integrations
Shop floor, design office and business systems
With an API key or full access, automation runs inside the system. Without it, we automate as much as possible from outside.
Automation inside the tool
With an API key or full access
The automation works inside the software itself — reading, creating and updating records within the permissions you grant.
- End-to-end workflows
- Most reliable, survives upgrades
- Only the permissions the task needs
As much as possible from outside
Without API or full access
We automate what can be done around the tool — and tell you up front which steps stay manual.
- File exports & imports, email, documents
- Screen automation with your own login
- Only where the licence and terms allow
Shop floor · read-only
- Siemens
- Rockwell Automation
- Schneider Electric
- ABB
- Ignition SCADA
- OPC UA
- MQTT
- Historians
- Node-RED
- Grafana
- InfluxDB
- Python
Design & engineering
- AutoCAD
- AutoCAD Plant 3D
- SolidWorks
- Autodesk Inventor
- Autodesk Revit
- AVEVA E3D / PDMS
- Hexagon Smart 3D
- CAESAR II
- CATIA
- PTC Creo
- Tekla Structures
- Navisworks
- MicroStation
- SketchUp
- Ansys
ERP, data & reporting
- SAP
- Tally
- Odoo
- Microsoft Excel
- Power BI
- MySQL
Product names are trademarks of their owners and are used only to say what we can connect to — no partnership, affiliation or endorsement. How much is automated depends on the access available; we check it on the first call.
Benefits
What changes in the plant
Reports on time, every shift
Production and quality numbers arrive before the meeting, in the same format every day.
Designers back on design
Bulk edits, BOM extraction and spec checks run as scripts, not afternoons.
One picture of plan and actual
The ERP, the floor and the drawing office read from the same data.
Nothing touches the machines
Shop-floor access is read-only, so automation never becomes a production risk.
Delivery process
One report, one drawing set or one line first
The pilot runs beside the manual process until the output matches — then the next piece starts.
- 1
Watch the task once
You do it the way you always do, start to finish. Most of the design comes out of that one session.
- 2
Put a number on it
Hours per month, people involved, cost of the errors it causes today. If the number is small, we say so.
- 3
Pilot on real data
One slice, your actual files. Run it beside the manual process and compare the output line by line.
- 4
Build and schedule
The full job, on your infrastructure, running on a timer with retries and a run history.
- 5
Monitor and hand over
Alerts when a run fails, documentation, and the source. It keeps working when nobody is watching it.
Questions
Questions about manufacturing automation
Machines, CAD tools, ERPs and old software — what we connect and what we never touch.
Do you connect to PLCs, SCADA and machines?
We read from them — through OPC UA, MQTT, historians or the SCADA database — to build production, OEE, quality and maintenance reporting. We never write to PLCs or control systems.
Can you automate AutoCAD, SolidWorks or piping design tools?
Yes. Design tools expose their models to scripts — AutoLISP and the .NET API for AutoCAD and Plant 3D, the SolidWorks and Inventor APIs, PML for AVEVA, and the Revit and Navisworks APIs. Typical jobs are bulk drawing updates, BOM and MTO extraction, piping spec checks, isometric generation and design configurators.
Which ERPs do you work with?
SAP ECC and S/4HANA purchasing data is where our product demo sits. Other ERPs are connected the same way: with an API key or full access, inside the ERP; without it, as much as possible from outside. The method is confirmed against your system and licence before anything is built.
Procurement & ERP AutomationOur ERP or in-house software is old and has no API. Can it still be automated?
Partly, and we say which part before building. Without an API or full access, we automate as much as possible from outside — scheduled file exports, a read-only database user, or screen automation where the software's licence allows it. Some steps may stay manual.
Can we start small?
Yes, and we recommend it — one report, one drawing set or one line. It runs beside the manual process until the output matches, and only then does the next piece start.
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Thirty minutes on one piece of manual work in your plant or design office. You will leave knowing whether it can be automated and what the first step would be.