Posts
- 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.
- What is MES? The Layer That Illuminates the Dark Side of Work Orders
MES captures actual time, stoppages, and scrap data in real time from the moment a work order reaches the shop floor until it closes. It illuminates the dark area that ERP cannot see.
- AI Agent Management: Role, Policy, Delegation, and Version Control Synthesis
Over six days, we explored what's needed to define, manage, and audit AI agents within an organization. Today, we bring these four tools together and show why Slack and ChatGPT fall short when managing self-hosted, Git-based systems.
- What is ERP? What It Is Not (The Gap in Make-to-Order Manufacturing)
We know ERP covers finance, sales, procurement, inventory, and accounting well. But in make-to-order manufacturing, is it sufficient for recipe changes, operation sequence adaptation, and real-time data capture?
- How Do Mixed Human + Agent Teams Work? Versioning Responsibility with Git and Config-as-Code
A real team doesn't consist only of humans or only of agents. When a marketing manager, developers, and AI agents work together, who is responsible? Whose approval is needed? Where are the rules stored? Auditable team management with Git, policy files, and config-as-code.
- Order Received, Work Order Issued — Then What?
Information fragmentation in make-to-order manufacturing: from sales order to shop floor operation, and the distributed nature of knowledge.
- Who Is Responsible If Agents Are Missing From Your Organization Chart?
When AI agents aren't included in your org chart, responsibility disappears. Learn why human and agent nodes must both be mapped in your structure, and how responsible_id creates accountability.
- 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.
- How Do Agents Hand Off Work to Each Other? Agent-to-Agent Delegation, Approval Flows, and Result Verification
One AI agent delegating work to another: approval mechanisms, responsibility chains, and operational verification. How to build accountable agent networks.
- Tool or Agent? Which Is a Defined Organizational Entity
Yesterday we saw how shadow AI becomes institutionalized without written rules. Today: What is the line between tool and agent? Why does it matter?
- Manufacturing Operations Management: MES, MOM, and ERP Integration
How MES, MOM, and ERP form an integrated whole, the challenges of integration, and how infab.cloud bridges the gap.
- 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.