Industries · Manufacturing

Manufacturing, delivered in the open.

Discrete and process manufacturing run on systems that must survive the shop floor. OT meets IT, legacy machines meet modern data, and every process change touches production. Software here isn't decoration — it's the difference between a line that runs and a line that waits. We've delivered for some of Europe's largest industrial groups, and we build for the floor first: applications operators actually use, data auditors can actually follow, and changes that never gamble with production.

The reality

What actually breaks

Challenge

OT meets IT — and neither gives way

Shop-floor systems, historians and MES on one side; ERP, planning and reporting on the other. Every integration is a risk to production, so most never happen — and people bridge the gap with exports and spreadsheets.

— Production data trapped at the machine— Planning runs on yesterday's numbers— Every change window is a negotiation— Spreadsheets become the real system of record

Challenge

Quality and traceability under audit

Certifications, customer audits and recalls all ask the same question: show me the evidence. When quality lives on paper and in disconnected tools, the answer takes weeks.

— Deviations and CAPAs tracked by email— Batch and serial traceability assembled by hand— Audit preparation steals days from operations— Recall scope takes too long to establish

Challenge

Approval chains that stall the plant

Engineering changes, deviations, CAPEX requests and supplier approvals crawl through inboxes. The plant waits on decisions nobody can see.

— No one knows where an approval sits— Four-eyes rules enforced by habit, not by system— Decisions lack a recorded trail— Urgency handled by walking the corridor

Challenge

Supply-chain blindness

Supplier status, inbound risk and inventory truth live in silos. Exceptions surface when the line stops, not before.

— Inbound delays discovered at the dock— Supplier compliance status unclear— Expediting becomes permanent firefighting— Inventory buffers hide the real problem

How we deliver it

Named problems, worked answers

The situation

A multi-site industrial group runs quality on paper travelers and email CAPAs. Audit preparation regularly pulls engineers off the line.

  • Digital production & quality workflows — travelers, deviations, CAPA
  • Evidence captured at the point of work, mobile-first
  • Full audit trail by construction — every decision recorded
  • Views your auditors and customers can follow
What changes: • Audit preparation becomes retrieval, not reconstruction • Quality events surface while they're still cheap to fix • The paper trail disappears — the evidence doesn't
The situation

Engineering changes and CAPEX approvals move through email chains. Nobody can say where a decision sits or prove who took it.

  • Approval-chain applications with explicit stages and enforced four-eyes
  • Evidence attached to every decision — the same gate discipline our own method runs on
  • Escalation and delegation built in, visible to everyone involved
What changes: • Every approval has a place, an owner and a trail • Decisions are auditable years later • The corridor walk retires
The situation

Plant data lives at the machines; the board sees monthly slide decks. Between them: exports, macros and hope.

  • Plant-to-boardroom data layers — one governed path from historian to report
  • Operational dashboards with drill-down to the underlying event
  • EU-resident platforms your auditors and works councils can accept
What changes: • One version of the truth, from shift report to board pack • Reporting stops being a monthly project • Data residency and access are demonstrable, not assumed
What we build

Capabilities

  • Custom business applications: production, quality, approval and maintenance workflows built for the floor
  • Data & reporting: governed plant-to-boardroom layers, EU-resident
  • Integration: OT/IT bridges that respect production windows
  • Platform fit: Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform as components where they earn their place — never the identity
Sovereign & compliant, always

How we deliver

How we deliverWhat it means for you
Audit-ready by constructionEvery workflow records its evidence as it runs — audits become retrieval, not reconstruction
EU-sovereign infrastructureMoonbase-run platforms hosted in the EU (Germany); your data's residency is demonstrable
NIS2-minded deliverySecurity posture visible in the Moonbase Portal — compliance on the record, not on request
Fixed price, gated methodAFD Confidence Gates with evidence at every stage — procurement-safe, no surprises
Proof, not adjectives

Moonbase is new — the people aren't. 15+ years of senior delivery in sectors like this one, a method you can audit before you commit, and every product we ship tracked in the open.

Talk to the people who've delivered for Europe's largest industrial groups — and see the method, the gates and the price before you commit.

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