Cognitive Manufacturing
factory.online is a cloud manufacturing platform where AI agents assist planning, costing and shop-floor decisions — sales, production and inventory in one real-time system.
- AI agents that recommend — your team stays in control
- No chaos, no Excel traps
- Works instantly after connection, no complex setup
Why factory.online
Why you need factory.online
Clear processes, full control, and profit without unnecessary hassle.
Without factory.online
- Data in Excel, accessible only to a few people
- Manual calculations lead to errors and losses
- Job orders get lost, changes get mixed up
- Inventory runs out at the critical moment, or dead money sits in the warehouse
- Planning takes days instead of minutes
- Customers wait while managers can't say when the order will be ready
With factory.online
- All orders, warehouses and manufacturing in one system
- Automatic planning of material and resource demand
- Transparent management of manufacturing schedules
- Forecasting risks of shortages and disruptions
- Integration with ERP, CRM and accounting systems
- Real-time dashboards for managers
- Complete transparency and rapid scalability
The platform
Everything you need for modern manufacturing
Eight modules on one data backbone. Turn on what you need, add the rest as you grow.
Sales
Quote, confirm, dispatch and invoice from one order book that production can actually see.
- Sales Orders
- Quotes
- Invoices
- Products Dispatch
- Customer Returns
- Customer Management
Production
Manufacturing orders, work orders and WIP tracking from release to finished-goods receipt.
- Manufacturing Orders (MOs)
- Material and Resource Requirements Planning (MRPII)
- Production Tasks / Work Orders
- Work in Progress (WIP) tracking
- Finished Goods Receipt to Warehouse
Supply Chain
Requisitions, purchase orders and supplier performance driven by real demand, not guesswork.
- Purchase Orders
- Goods Receipt
- Purchase Requisitions
- Supplier Management
- Materials Demand Forecasting
Inventory Management
Batch-level stock accuracy across every location, with transfers and stock-taking.
- Stocks
- Batches
- Stock-taking
- Transfer Requests
- Stock Transfers
Planning
Rough-cut capacity planning that answers whether the plan is even possible.
- Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP)
- Material requirements planning
- Demand and supply balancing
Scheduling
Advanced planning and scheduling down to the work centre and the shift.
- Scheduling (APS)
- Work calendars, shifts and holidays
- Alternative work centres
- Finite capacity sequencing
Product Costing
Know the real cost of every order — standard, actual, and the gap between them.
- Standard Costing
- Actual Costing
- Standard vs Actual comparison
Master and Product Data
One clean backbone of items, BOMs and routings that every module reads from.
- Items
- Item classes and characteristics
- Bill of Materials
- Routings
- Packaging types and BOMs
- Process and Dispatch Containers
- Locations
- Work Centers
Implementation results
What changes after go-live
Measured across factory.online implementations.
-20%
Operating costs
-23%
Inventory
95+%
Data accuracy
97%
Production on-time
days → minutes
Order processing time
+15%
Equipment utilization
Trusted by manufacturers
Results from the shop floor
+20% increase in production throughput
Process automation and convenient order tracking improved shop floor efficiency. Production became faster and more stable, without sacrificing quality.
Liam B. — Planner
Shortages caught weeks earlier
We finally see material demand before it becomes a shortage. Purchasing plans against the real schedule instead of a spreadsheet.
Marta K. — Supply Chain Manager
One source of truth across the plant
Managers stopped asking where an order is. The dashboard answers it, and the answer is the same for everyone.
Andrii S. — Operations Director
Industries
Built for discrete and process manufacturing
Security
Bank-level security
Microsoft Azure
Data hosted on secure Microsoft Azure servers that meet global security standards.
256-bit encryption
The same level of encryption used by banks.
GDPR-compliant
Data processed under EU privacy regulations.
ISO certifications
Proving reliability and top-level system security.
Unify business processes and the shop floor in one digital ecosystem
Together with BEEDIGIT you get full production control.
- Real-time equipment monitoring
- Performance, energy use and efficiency loss tracking
- Plug & play connection of any sensors or machines
- One digital loop: from planning to machine-level execution
- Integration with no extra costs
Who we are
Manufacturing expertise that works across borders
- 13+ years of experience in manufacturing consulting
- English and Arabic-speaking support team
- Modern, accessible cloud services for manufacturers that just work
- Transparency, speed and real-time control
- We help businesses grow faster and make fewer mistakes
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