Every manufacturer running an ERP has the same experience. The system has the production plan. It knows what should be happening. What it cannot tell you is what is actually happening — right now, on the floor, machine by machine, shift by shift.
Downtime happens and gets recorded at the end of the shift — if it gets recorded accurately at all. A quality issue surfaces at final inspection when it should have been caught inline at the operation where it originated. OEE numbers are calculated from data that was manually entered by someone who was also trying to run a production line. Inventory figures show what the system was last updated to reflect, not what is physically in the warehouse today.
The decisions that manufacturing managers make every day — scheduling, maintenance prioritisation, quality intervention, procurement — are made on information that is already outdated. The cost of that gap compounds across every shift, every week, every quarter.
Micraft is built to close it.