Production and Inventory

Why infab.cloud runs on a factory server or a server the company rents, and what that decision means for access, maintenance and ERP boundaries.

How to compare production and quality records in Grafana without losing job identity, time, units or data freshness.

A live Grafana screen only helps production when the team can read it, trust its timing, and know what to check next. A practical look at shift-facing displays.

A production plan can say a job is in progress without showing which operation is waiting. Here is how job-level MES tracking helps, and where its visibility ends.

When factory data piles up in one place, who watches it? Grafana is an open-source dashboard that connects every data source—PLC, ERP, sensors—into one live screen. But the metrics the team picks determine how strong decisions become. What improves with Grafana?

MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) brings together what MES observes on the shop floor, what ERP plans and accounts for, along with quality oversight, maintenance, and inventory coordination. In ISA-95 model, Layer 3.

MES (Manufacturing Execution System) records how long a work order truly takes on the floor, why it stops, how many pieces are defective, and captures this data in real time. It illuminates what ERP cannot see.

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.

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.

The three most common mistakes when connecting ERP, MOM, and MES layers: concurrent write conflicts, data ownership ambiguity, and uncalculated latency tolerance.

MOM transforms the data collected by MES into production, quality, maintenance, and inventory decisions. Defined as Level 3 in ISA-95.

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.