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Client: ROMAY AG
Industry: Industrial Manufacturing / Industry 4.0
Industrial Manufacturing / Industry 4.0
We build custom systems for manufacturers and automation integrators. We connect data from the shop floor, machines and ERP systems, and build production dashboards, reporting and tools that make everyday work in production, the warehouse and maintenance easier. We also design product catalogs and B2B websites for manufacturers who want to bring order to their communication with customers and distributors.
Our clients in manufacturing
Shop floor data in the hands of the whole company
In many plants, the data already exists — in machines, the ERP, spreadsheets and operator reports. The problem starts when it's scattered and hard to use for decision-making. We build IT systems for manufacturing that bring this information together in one place. Operators see current orders, production managers can respond to downtime faster, and management gets up-to-date reports without manually combining data from several sources.
A catalog customers use on their own
Industrial manufacturers sell through sales reps and distributors, but customers still start with the website: they look for datasheets, certificates and technical data. A website that organizes all this takes work off the sales team — provided the company's own team, not an outside contractor, manages the content behind it. For the Swiss manufacturer Romay AG, we built a platform where four language versions — including Chinese — are run from a single panel. Adding a fifth market then becomes a job for a translator, not an IT project.
Maintenance without the notebook
Fault reports, inspections and repair history usually live in a notebook or in emails — so nobody knows which machine breaks down every month. A simple system where operators report faults from the shop floor and the maintenance team sees the queue and each machine's history cuts downtime more than many equipment investments. The problem is rarely a lack of people — more often it's a lack of information about what's down and where.
Case studies in manufacturing
„We got real attention from the team and a level of flexibility we wouldn't have had with a bigger vendor, and the system they built is starting to pay for itself.”
Michał Molicki — Co-Owner, Grow Creator
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What does Industry 4.0 mean in practice?
Industry 4.0 is above all about data flowing freely between machines, production, the warehouse and business systems. It can start with simple changes: digital production orders, automated reporting, downtime logging or integrating machine data with an ERP or MES.
You don't always need to invest straight away in new sensors and an extensive IoT infrastructure. First, we look at what data the company already has and which processes are worth digitizing first.
How we work
How we approach manufacturing implementations
We start with the real process — not with a list of system features. Together with the people working in production, we look at where information is retyped by hand, where delays occur and which decisions could be based on better data. Then we choose the area where it makes sense to start. That could be production reporting, order handling, downtime logging, quality control or ERP integration.
On your side are access to the shop floor and the people, machine documentation and deciding who reports what and when. On our side are analysis, development, integrations and a rollout that runs in parallel with existing work.
We develop the system in stages, so there's no need to replace the entire IT environment at once.
Decisions
Decisions worth making before investing in sensors
What exactly you want to see. "Machine data" is not a goal. The goal is an answer to a question: how long does a changeover take, where is an order right now, why did the line stand still for forty minutes yesterday. That determines what to measure and where — and whether you need to measure at all.
Who enters the data if not the machine. An operator at a terminal or a shift supervisor at the end of the shift. The first gives you accuracy; the second is more realistic to keep up. That choice determines how reliable the whole system is.
Should scheduling be automatic? Automatic scheduling requires reliable operation times. Without them, the system will produce a plan the shop floor can't deliver — and trust in it will be gone within a week.
What not to do. Don't start by buying sensors. Don't roll out during a large order. And don't leave the shop floor without a paper fallback in case the network goes down — production can't wait for IT.
Scope
Digitization where Excel stops being enough
Not every company needs to replace its ERP or roll out a large MES. Often a better option is a custom module that complements the existing tools and automates the most problematic part of the process. We connect production, the warehouse, sales and administration with the systems already running in the company.
What we build
Production dashboards, ERP integrations, document workflows
Depending on your needs, we can build:
- production and operator dashboards,
- production reporting systems,
- MES modules tailored to a specific process,
- integrations with ERP, WMS and other systems,
- downtime and failure logs,
- maintenance solutions,
- electronic document workflows,
- quality control modules,
- product catalogs and B2B platforms.
We don't add yet another system without a good reason. Wherever possible, we integrate the new solution with your existing IT environment.
Integrations
Data from the shop floor to the office without retyping
Most problems tend to appear where different systems and departments meet. Production data goes into a spreadsheet, then into the ERP, and finally into a report put together by hand. We design integrations that let information recorded once be passed on automatically — with the right validation, change history and access control.
FAQ
Questions we hear from manufacturing
- It can be a comprehensive system supporting production execution, or a smaller module solving a specific problem. We build operator panels, production reporting, ERP and MES integrations, maintenance systems, quality modules and B2B solutions, among others.
- Usually not. If the current ERP handles finance, inventory or sales well, we can integrate it with a custom production system or add the missing features.
- ERP primarily supports enterprise resource planning and management. A MES focuses on production execution and shop floor data: job order progress, machine performance, downtime, quality and operator reporting. In practice, the two systems often work together.
- It depends on the specific machine park and available interfaces. Not every machine requires additional instrumentation, though — that's why before investing we check what data is already available and how it can be used.
- With a specific problem that can be measured. It might be a lack of up-to-date information on job order progress, manual reporting, downtime, document workflows or a lack of integration between production and the ERP. Only then is it worth extending the solution to further processes.
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