Akashic for manufacturing · Plants & supply lines
The line already knows. Now you will.
Your machines report every forty milliseconds. Your reports arrive every month. Akashic closes that gap: one governed record connecting the shop floor to the enterprise, so drift is caught while the shift can still act.
Machine signals
Torque · vibration · temperature
Production context
Line · shift · batch · work order
Enterprise record
Cost · quality · supplier lot
Coating temperature drifting · ST-03
Flagged before scrap · work order ready
Throughput
412/min
OEE
87.4%
Scrap
0.6%
Plant systems joined
Two clocks run your plant. They never meet.
The machine clock
08:14:02.318
Torque sample · every 40 ms
Station three starts drifting on a Tuesday morning. The machine records it instantly, in a table nobody joins.
The meeting clock
Month end
Variance review · three weeks after the drift
The scrap surfaces in Thursday’s quality report. The cost lands in month-end variance. The root cause is reconstructed from four systems that disagree about what happened.
The gap between the two clocks is where downtime, scrap, and recalls live.
ST-01
Press
ST-02
Weld
ST-03
Coat
What the floor is already saying
SENSOR
Coating cell drift
Temperature and torque move out of pattern before scrap appears in quality.
CONTEXT
Batch and shift attached
The signal carries the work order, operator shift, machine, and supplier lot.
ACTION
Work order ready
Maintenance sees the evidence while the line can still be brought back in spec.
1
The floor and the ledger don't speak
MES, SCADA, and the historian run in one world. ERP, quality, and planning run in another. Every handover between them is a spreadsheet, a delay, and a chance to disagree.
2
Genealogy assembled by hand
When a defect escapes, tracing which batch, machine, shift, and supplier lot were involved takes days of cross-referencing. The recall decision waits on the paperwork.
3
Maintenance runs on the calendar
Assets are serviced on schedule, not on condition. The signals that predict failure exist, but they sit in a historian that no planning system ever queries.
None of these are people problems. All of them are architecture problems.
You built this line. You deserve to hear what it's telling you.
Scroll through your own plant: the players you already have, and what changes when their data lands on one governed record.
- 01
The players
Every player is already on the field.
Machines, sensors, MES, warehouse, ERP, boardroom: your plant has all of them today. They just don't share a truth.
- 02
The floor speaks
The line starts streaming.
Torque, vibration, counts, states: every signal lands on the governed foundation the moment it happens, not at month end.
- 03
The enterprise joins
Floor and ledger, one record.
Warehouse movements, ERP orders and quality results resolve against the same batches and machines. One genealogy.
- 04
Answers flow back
The boardroom sees the floor. Live.
The drift on station three is flagged, the work order is raised, and leadership watches the same line the shift does.
One governed record, from sensor to boardroom.
Akashic doesn't replace your MES or ERP. It sits underneath them: streaming every signal into one governed foundation, resolving every part, machine, and batch into a single record, and answering in plain language with the lineage attached.
01 / Unify
Connect the floor to the ledger
Data Pipelines stream MES, SCADA, and ERP events the moment they happen. Master Data resolves every part, machine, batch, and supplier lot into one governed record.
02 / Govern
One traceable genealogy
The warehouse keeps raw sensor history and certified quality records apart but linked. Every batch carries its full lineage: machine, shift, inputs, and inspection results.
03 / Predict
Maintenance before failure
Models trained on your own vibration, torque, and scrap history flag drift before it becomes downtime, and forecast demand so the line runs to plan, not to guesswork.
04 / Act
Ask the line anything
Supervisors ask in plain language and get answers grounded in the batch, machine, and shift they came from. Plant leadership watches live line health, not last month's OEE.
Every module runs on the same governed foundation · every answer arrives with its lineage
What changes on the floor.
Same machines. Same people. A different relationship with the truth of the line.
BeforeDowntime discovered in the morning report
AfterDrift flagged while the shift can still act
BeforeQuality escapes traced by hand over days
AfterBatch genealogy resolved in one query
BeforeERP and MES disagree about yesterday's output
AfterOne governed record both systems draw from
BeforeOEE compiled in a spreadsheet at month end
AfterLive line health, traceable to every sensor
Let's talk about your line.
Whether it's one plant drowning in disconnected systems or a multi-site operation that can't compare lines, we'd like to show you what one governed record of your production actually looks like.