Manufacturing ERP solutions that actually talk to the shop floor.
The gap between the ERP and the line is where margin quietly disappears. We build manufacturing ERP solutions, MES integrations and OEE platforms that connect finance, planning, production and maintenance in one operating picture. No more reconciling the plant in Excel on Friday.
What actually breaks in this space.
Shop floor data that never reaches finance
Production reports arrive a week late. Cost accounting works on estimates. Variances show up in the close, not in real time.
OEE reports built in Excel
Plant managers copy CSVs from four systems every Monday. By the time they ship the deck, the numbers are already stale.
Legacy ERP that blocks Industry 4.0
Every IoT or MES initiative hits the same wall: the ERP cannot ingest event data and the vendor wants two years to add it.
Multi-plant rollouts that stall at plant three
Plant one went fine. Plant two was painful. Plant three exposed the fact that the template was never really a template.
Capabilities we bring to this industry.
Modular manufacturing ERP
Custom ERP modules for cost accounting, production planning, inventory, quality and maintenance wired into your general ledger.
MES and ERP integration
Event-driven integration between MES, historian and ERP so production data and finance data are the same data, not reconciled copies.
OEE and operational analytics
Real-time OEE, availability and quality dashboards with drill-down to asset, shift and SKU.
Industry 4.0 connectivity
OPC-UA, Modbus, MQTT and Sparkplug B pipelines from the line to the lakehouse. Secure by design.
Predictive maintenance
Anomaly detection and condition-based maintenance for machines, wired into CMMS work orders.
Multi-plant rollout platform
A genuine template plant model with localization, regulatory and language variants so plant five goes live faster than plant two.
Measured, not modeled.
Shapes these engagements usually take.
Greenfield manufacturing ERP across 7 plants
Embedded MES integration, OEE analytics and statutory reporting across three countries. 11% OEE lift and 60% less manual reporting.
SAP ECC to modular ERP strangler migration
Decomposed a 14-year monolith into modular services across 12 entities. Month-end close 4 times faster.
Aftermarket IoT pipeline from customer plants
320M events per second telemetry pipeline with anomaly detection. +22% MTBF on critical assets.
Tools and technologies we reach for here.
Common questions
- What manufacturing software does FictiveBox build?
- Modular manufacturing ERP, MES and ERP integration, OEE and operational analytics, Industry 4.0 connectivity, predictive maintenance, and multi-plant rollout platforms.
- What usually goes wrong between the shop floor and the ERP?
- Shop floor data does not reach finance, so OEE reporting ends up rebuilt in spreadsheets; legacy ERP blocks Industry 4.0 work; and multi-plant rollouts stall part-way through because each plant was treated as a bespoke project. The fix is integration that is designed once and a rollout platform rather than repeated one-off deployments.
- When should a manufacturer modernise rather than upgrade?
- When the current system cannot absorb change without a long upgrade cycle, and when planning, production, maintenance and finance cannot be reconciled without manual work. At that point a modular platform you can replace piece by piece is usually cheaper over time than another monolithic upgrade.
- Which technologies are used for manufacturing platforms?
- Postgres, Kafka, OPC-UA, TimescaleDB, React, Node.js, dbt, Snowflake and Kubernetes.
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