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ERP

Smart Factory

Manufacturing Management System

Industry
Manufacturing & Industrial
Duration
10 months
Delivered
2024
Client
Smart Factory (demo)
Next.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLRedis

Smart Factory connects shop-floor capture with plant-level planning so production orders, materials and machine state stay in step. Terminal screens record output and quality at the line, machine telemetry streams into a time-series store, and OEE is computed continuously rather than reconstructed after the shift. Planners see material coverage against the schedule, while supervisors track downtime reasons and shift performance. As a demo, it shows how manufacturing data becomes useful when capture is automatic and context is attached at the source.

The challenge

What the business was up against

Production data existed, but it arrived too late and too disconnected to steer the plant. Output was recorded on clipboards at shift end, downtime was explained from memory, and quality results lived in a separate system from the orders they belonged to. Planners discovered material shortages after a line had already stopped, and OEE was calculated monthly in a spreadsheet that nobody trusted. Every department kept its own version of the schedule, so a change on the floor took days to reach the office. The plant was measuring itself in retrospect while decisions had to be made in the moment.

At a glance

Industry
Manufacturing & Industrial
Duration
10 months
Delivered
2024
Engagement
Discovery → delivery → support
The solution

What we designed and shipped

We placed capture at the point of work: terminals on the line record output, scrap and quality against the live production order, while machine telemetry streams into a time-series store. An OEE service computes availability, performance and quality continuously from those events, with downtime classified as it happens rather than reconstructed later. Material coverage is checked against the schedule so shortages surface before a line stops. Role-based dashboards give operators, supervisors and planners the same underlying facts at different levels of detail, and shift reports generate themselves from captured data.

At a glance

Primary category
ERP
Services
ERP · Enterprise · AI
Team
Product, design, engineering, QA
Delivery
Two-week increments
Key features

What the platform actually does

Production Planning

Schedule orders against capacity, materials and committed due dates.

Inventory & Materials

Material coverage checks linked directly to the production schedule.

Machine Monitoring

Live machine state, throughput and stop reasons by line.

Workforce & Shifts

Shift rosters, attendance and operator allocation by station.

Quality Reports

Defect, scrap and inspection records tied to each production order.

Operational Analytics

Throughput, yield and utilisation trends across the plant.

Downtime Tracking

Classified stop reasons with duration and responsible station.

Architecture

How the system is put together

Each tier can be scaled, replaced or taken offline independently. Data flows left to right; failure in a downstream tier never blocks the primary transaction path.

Shop-floor capture

01

Data enters where the work happens, with minimal operator effort.

  • Terminal UIOutput, scrap and quality captured against the active order.
  • Machine telemetrySensor and PLC streams normalised at the plant edge.

Plant services

02

Manufacturing domain logic for orders, materials and quality.

  • Production ordersOrder release, progress and completion across work centres.
  • BOM & materialsBill of materials and consumption checked against schedule.
  • QualityInspection, defect and scrap records attached to orders.

Intelligence

03

Continuous computation and alerting on top of captured events.

  • OEE computationAvailability, performance and quality calculated from live events.
  • Downtime alertsStop events classified and escalated within the shift.
  • ForecastMaterial and capacity projection from the current plan.

Data

04

Transactional, cached and time-series storage for plant data.

  • PostgreSQLOrders, materials, quality and workforce records.
  • RedisCache and short-lived state for terminal sessions.
  • Time-series metricsMachine and OEE measurements stored for trend analysis.
Technology stack

Chosen for the decade, not the demo

Every dependency here has a long support horizon, an active community and a large hiring pool. That keeps total cost of ownership predictable long after launch.

Demo project
Next.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLRedis
  • Type-safe end to end
  • Migrations under version control
  • Structured logging and tracing
  • Automated regression suite
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Documented runbooks
Product screens

Interfaces built for daily, repetitive use

Screens are represented by illustrative interface mockups. Real client screens are shared under NDA during procurement.

plant.smartfactory.systems/lines

OEE

82.4%

+6.1 pts

Lines live

14

Scrap

1.9%

Screen 01

Plant Overview

Live line status, output and downtime across the plant.

plant.smartfactory.systems/lines

OEE

82.4%

+6.1 pts

Lines live

14

Scrap

1.9%

Screen 02

Production Orders

Order release, progress and material coverage for planners.

admin.novacommerce.io/overview

Revenue

18.2M

+22%

Orders

41,208

AOV

442

Screen 03

Machine Telemetry

Per-machine throughput, stops and OEE trend detail.

Results

Measured outcomes, not adjectives

Illustrative demo metrics

0%

Less material waste

0%

Higher line utilisation

Real-time

OEE visibility

0%

Lower energy per unit

Figures are illustrative demo data for this concept project. Verified client outcomes are published only with written consent.

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