Manufacturers operate platforms across a sharp OT/IT divide — plant-floor systems that must stay running for years between maintenance windows, alongside business systems that need rapid iteration. Bridging the two without compromising either is the engineering problem; we design platforms with that boundary as the central architectural concern.
What we do for manufacturers
- MES and plant-floor adjacency. Modernise the systems immediately above the control-network boundary — line scheduling, quality, traceability — on container infrastructure that respects OT-network constraints (segmentation, dual NICs, predictable patching windows).
- Supply-chain visibility. End-to-end visibility from supplier through plant to customer, with shared portals for suppliers, real-time exceptions, and AI-augmented anomaly detection on flow data.
- Predictive maintenance. IIoT data ingestion (sensors, PLCs, vibration analyzers), feature engineering, ML pipelines for asset-health scoring, integrated with the maintenance workflow so predictions become work orders.
- Quality and traceability. Per-unit traceability for regulated products (pharmaceutical, automotive, food), with immutable lineage from raw material lot through finished-goods shipment.
- OT/IT identity unification. Identity flows that span operator HMI access, engineering workstations, and corporate IT — without creating a flat-network attack surface.
- ERP and SAP modernization. Replatforming SAP estates, S/4HANA migrations, ERP-adjacent custom development on container platforms.
What makes manufacturing engagements distinct
Compared with services-sector workloads, manufacturing platforms have physical-system adjacency: a software change can affect a plant in operation. Change windows are measured in maintenance cycles, not sprints. Documentation has to be usable by maintenance engineers as well as platform engineers, and DR drills are about line-restart-time, not just RPO/RTO.
Our manufacturing experience includes work with large industrial groups (Unilever, BAT) and adjacent process-industry operators.