Manufacturing.
Know what the plant floor is actually doing.
Drema builds manufacturing software that starts from the machines and works upward: production tracking, OEE, quality capture, maintenance and the data pipelines that make any of it possible. The recurring gap is between what the ERP believes is happening and what is actually happening on the floor.
What this sector
actually deals with.
Production is recorded on paper and typed up per shift, so the numbers are hours old and rounded. Downtime causes are attributed from memory. Maintenance is calendar-based, meaning machines are serviced too early or fail unexpectedly.
Systems this sector
keeps needing.
The parts of a manufacturing platform that carry the weight. Not everything at once — we build the one that unblocks you first.
Machine data acquisition
Pulling from PLCs, SCADA and sensors into a usable time-series store.
Production tracking and OEE
Availability, performance and quality measured rather than estimated.
Quality management
In-line inspection capture, non-conformance handling and traceability.
Predictive maintenance
Condition-based alerting from sensor patterns instead of a fixed calendar.
Shop-floor interfaces
Terminals designed for gloved hands, poor light and no keyboard.
Where the work
pays for itself.
The problems manufacturing teams bring us most often. If one of these is costing you money today, it is worth a conversation.
Downtime reduction
Attributing lost minutes to real causes so the top three can be fixed.
Traceability
Component genealogy from raw material to finished unit for recalls and warranty.
Energy and yield optimisation
Correlating process parameters with consumption and scrap.
Paperless shop floor
Replacing shift registers with capture at the point of work.
Not on this list? Sector problems rarely fit a template — tell us yours.
What shapes a build
in this sector.
These are the things a generalist team discovers late and prices badly. We design around them from the first week.
- OT and IT network separation, with strict rules on plant-network access
- Legacy PLCs and proprietary protocols
- Harsh physical environment for any device on the floor
- Zero tolerance for interrupting production during rollout
How we usually
engage here.
The services manufacturing clients most often start with.
Manufacturing
questions.
Straight answers, including where we are not the right team.
Can you get data out of old machines?
Usually. Options range from PLC protocols and OPC UA to retrofitted sensors where a machine offers no digital output at all. Assessing this per machine is the first piece of work, because it determines what is achievable.
Will this disrupt production?
It should not, and we plan for that explicitly. Data acquisition is read-only wherever possible, rollout happens line by line, and anything touching plant control is scheduled into planned maintenance windows with your engineers.
Does predictive maintenance actually work?
It works where there is enough sensor history and enough recorded failures to learn from. Where that history does not exist, condition-based rules deliver most of the value immediately while the data accumulates. We are honest about which situation you are in.
Do you integrate with SAP or our ERP?
Yes. The usual pattern is that the ERP stays the system of record while we build the plant-floor layer that feeds it accurate, timely data instead of manual entries.
Building for manufacturing?
Bring the problem as it actually is, constraints included.
You will get a straight answer on whether we are the right team.