Notes from the agentic factory.
Essays on production intelligence, autonomous scheduling, and what high-mix manufacturing is becoming.
What an Agentic Twin Is
A digital twin watches the factory. An agentic twin runs it.
6 min readWhy Data Quality Isn't the Bottleneck It Used to Be
For thirty years, every ERP project began with the same warning: clean your master data first. That warning is starting to expire.
7 min readWhy Real-Time Rescheduling Is the New Floor for High-Mix Manufacturing
The plan you make at 6:45 a.m. is wrong by 9:30, every day. The cause is architectural, and most planning systems were built for a different era.
6 min readHow European Manufacturing Can Come Out on Top
Europe will not win on cost. It will not win on capital intensity. There is a competitive position that is genuinely Europe's, and it is wider than the current debate suggests.
8 min readThe Knowledge That Leaves When Your Senior Planner Retires
The shop floor's most valuable knowledge never made it into the ERP. It lives in the head of the person who is about to retire.
7 min readStart with a proof of value on your own data.
See the productivity potential of your operations in under 2 weeks, without any disruptions.