How long does the Factory Flow Assessment take?

Typically two to three weeks end to end, including one to two days on site. You get the full findings package and roadmap at the end — whether or not you engage us for the work that follows.

Are we too small for this?

Small and mid-size manufacturers are exactly who this is built for. If you have 25 to 500 people, more systems than you have people to maintain them, and a leadership team that spends its meetings assembling data, you are the right fit.

What happens after the assessment?

You own the roadmap either way. Most clients pick the top one or two items and have us implement them; some take it in house. There is no obligation to continue, and the assessment is priced so it stands on its own.

For aerospace & industrial manufacturers

Quit Spreadsheets.
Start Machining.

Q: Who from our team needs to be involved?

Operations leadership, plus whoever actually touches the data day to day — a production planner, a quality lead, and your ERP administrator. Roughly four to six hours of their time across the engagement.

The Flow Forge connects your ERP, quality, engineering, and production systems into one operating rhythm — so you can see what is actually happening on the floor, in real time.

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Aerospace & industrial focus
Works with your existing systems
Fixed-fee first engagement

The symptoms

Does any of this sound familiar?

Production status lives in spreadsheets.
Leadership meetings are spent gathering information instead of solving problems.
Engineering, quality, and production all have different versions of reality.
Operators spend more time updating systems than building products.
Critical metrics are manually assembled every week.
Problems are discovered days after they occur.

If so, your factory doesn’t have a production problem.

It has a flow problem.

What we do

We build factory operating systems.

We combine manufacturing expertise, lean management systems, and software integration to create a single source of truth for your operation.

Operational Visibility

Know what is happening across production, quality, engineering, and delivery in real time — not at the end of the week.

Process Automation

Eliminate manual updates, duplicate data entry, and the spreadsheet-driven workflows holding your operation together.

Daily Management Systems

Create a structured operating cadence that turns data into decisions and decisions into action on the floor.

Digital Integration

Connect ERP, MES, QMS, PDM, spreadsheets, and custom systems — without replacing the software you already run.

Who we work with

Built for regulated, high-mix, low-volume production.

Aerospace
Defense
Precision Machining
Contract Manufacturing
Industrial Equipment
Build-to-Print Fabrication

Why we’re different

Most consultants understand manufacturing.Most developers understand software.Very few understand both.

That gap is where factory improvement projects go to die — the process work stalls because nobody can build the system, or the software ships and nobody changes how they run the floor.

We don’t just build dashboards. We change how your factory operates, and then we build the system that keeps it that way.

Aerospace manufacturing experience
Lean manufacturing systems
Quality systems expertise
Software development
Data integration

How it works

Four steps from guesswork to a running system.

Every engagement starts the same way: we find out how information actually moves through your factory before we change anything.

Assess
We walk the floor, sit in your meetings, and trace how information actually moves — not how the org chart says it should.
Map
Current-state process and information flow, with every handoff, spreadsheet, and re-keyed field made visible in one picture.
Integrate
We connect the systems you already own so data flows once, automatically, into a single source of truth.
Operate
A daily management cadence built on live data, so your team runs the system instead of assembling it.

Start here

The Factory Flow Assessment

Don't start with a project. Start with a diagnosis. A fixed-fee, fixed-scope engagement that tells you exactly where flow breaks down — and what to do about it first.

$3,000–$5,000

Fixed fee

What you’ll receive

Current-state process map
Information flow analysis
Bottleneck identification
Spreadsheet dependency assessment
Leadership system review
Prioritized improvement roadmap

The outcome

A clear understanding of where flow breaks down, and a prioritized plan to improve visibility, throughput, and execution. You keep the roadmap whether or not we build it with you.

Two to three weeks. One to two days on site. No software purchase required.

We ask for four to six hours from your operations lead, a production planner, a quality lead, and your ERP administrator. That’s the whole commitment.

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What good looks like

Three meetings a week, replaced by one screen.

Illustrative example — not a client engagement

Problem

Production status required three separate meetings and half a dozen spreadsheets every week. By the time leadership saw a number, it was already four days old.

Solution

Connected ERP, quality, and production data into a single real-time operations dashboard, and rebuilt the weekly review around it as a 15-minute daily standup.

Result

Status meeting time dropped by 75%, and production risks surfaced days earlier — while the team was still able to do something about them.

Less time spent in status meetings: 75%
Earlier visibility into at-risk jobs: 4 days

Questions

What manufacturers ask us first.

No. Replacing an ERP is expensive, slow, and rarely the actual problem. We integrate the systems you already own — ERP, MES, QMS, PDM, and yes, the spreadsheets — so information moves between them automatically.

Find out where your flow breaks down.

One conversation is usually enough to tell whether we can help. If we can’t, we’ll say so.