Posts
- What Is ERP, and What Is It Not? (The Gap Between Office and Shop Floor)
ERP is a solid backbone for financial accounting, sales, procurement, and inventory. But in make-to-order production, it cannot see what happens on the shop floor. This post examines what ERP covers, where it stops, and the real consequences.
- Who Decides When Humans and Agents Work in the Same Team?
How should work division, approval responsibility, and organizational versioning work when a software developer and a code review agent work together? Rules live in config-as-code and every decision is logged in Git.
- Order Arrived, Work Order Opened — Then What?
In make-to-order manufacturing, why does information fragment across paper, Excel, supervisor memory, and WhatsApp between order entry and shop floor execution? The cost of information chaos.
- What Happens When Agents Hand Off Work? A2A Delegation, Approval Flows, and Accountability
Responsibility gaps, approval veto points, and result verification mechanisms when multiple AI agents delegate work to each other. How to build a safe A2A protocol.
- MES + MOM + ERP Synthesis: Why Running Three Layers Separately Fails
The practical challenges of deploying production software layers separately, the risks of fragmented vendor setups, and why an integrated approach is essential for shop-floor reality.
- Agent Identity Documents: policy.md and Operational States
How policy.md defines what an agent can do, which tools it can access, and when it can work. Understanding Draft, Active, and Passive states.
- Invisible Variance: Why Standard Cost Fails in Demand-Driven Production
Where standard cost formulas break down in demand-driven production: variable recipes, dynamic routings, and the gap between planned and actual cost. How real-time cost engines eliminate month-end surprises.
- Who Is Accountable When Agents Are Missing from the Org Chart?
If an agent has no place in the organization chart, the work it performs has no clear owner. Including human and agent nodes in the chart establishes responsible_id, ownership, and audit trails.
- 3 Critical Errors in ERP-MOM-MES Integration
The three most common mistakes when connecting ERP, MOM, and MES layers: concurrent write conflicts, data ownership ambiguity, and uncalculated latency tolerance.
- What Is an Agent: The Tool-to-Agent Distinction and Organizational Boundaries
What is the difference between a team using a tool and a team using an agent? A tool just does things. An agent carries responsibility. Organizational boundaries, ownership, and accountability.
- What is MOM? The Layer That Orchestrates Production
MOM transforms the data collected by MES into production, quality, maintenance, and inventory decisions. Defined as Level 3 in ISA-95.
- Unwritten Rules: The Institutionalized Shadow AI
Does your organization have AI routines that everyone knows but nobody has written down? Undocumented responsibility is the biggest source of risk.