Operations watchdog for manufacturers and industrial SMEs
A missing component, a work order stuck at a workstation, a non-conformity with no action plan: in a manufacturing SME these drifts surface at the production meeting — one or two days too late. The watchdog spots them continuously and alerts the right person while there is still time to act.
In your day-to-day
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Alert when a supplier delay puts a planned work order into shortage, before release — not at the missing-part stage.
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Detection of a work order abnormally idle at a workstation, the sign of a shop-floor blockage or machine issue.
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Flagging of open non-conformities with no action plan beyond the delay you set.
How it works
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Continuous watch over your flows
Stock, orders, deliveries, payments, queues, systems: the watchdog reads your tools continuously and learns each flow’s normal behaviour.
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Signal, not noise
A seasonal variation is not an anomaly. The watchdog qualifies each gap — normal, watch, incident — and only alerts when action is useful. That triage is what keeps alerts trusted.
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The right person, with context
The alert reaches the person who can act, with the diagnosis: what, since when, how big, and first leads. Escalation is automatic if nobody acknowledges.
Typical results
4 min
from anomaly to alert, observed in production
24/7
watching, nights and weekends included
÷10
alert volume, thanks to signal/noise triage
Orders of magnitude observed in production; your diagnostic sets your own baseline and targets.
Frequently asked questions
Can the watchdog reschedule the shop floor on its own?+
No — scheduling stays a human decision. The watchdog detects, qualifies and alerts the scheduler with context: which work order, which missing part, which client orders are affected. It wins you the hours that matter, not the decisions.
Do we need connected machines for it to work?+
No: the watchdog works first with what exists — MRP, shop-floor clocking, supplier confirmations, stock levels. If you have supervision systems or connected machines, it uses them too, but they are not a prerequisite.
How is this better than my current tools’ alerts?+
Your tools each alert in their own corner, on fixed thresholds, and often cry wolf. The watchdog crosses flows between tools, learns normal behaviour, and only interrupts when action is useful — with the diagnosis already done.
What exactly does the watchdog monitor?+
Whatever hurts you when it breaks: stock and stockouts, orders and deliveries, payments and direct debits, ticket queues, system availability. The scope is defined at the diagnostic and widens with trust.
Is this the problem eating your team’s time?
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