Your production data exists.
Your systems just do not share it with each other.
Manufacturing companies generate more operational data than almost any other industry. Production output, quality results, equipment status, labour hours, material consumption, and supplier lead times, all being captured somewhere. The problem is that somewhere is usually a collection of disconnected systems, manual logs, and spreadsheets that require human effort to reconcile.
When your production team is spending time on reporting instead of production, and your leadership is making decisions on last week's numbers, the operational drag compounds. LVRGWRKS builds the integration and automation layer that connects your manufacturing systems and eliminates the manual work in between.
Where manufacturing companies lose capacity they cannot get back
The most common pattern we see in mid-market manufacturing is this: the production floor is running, the quality system is capturing data, the ERP is tracking inventory and orders, and none of them are talking to each other in real time. The integration layer between systems is a person. Usually several people.
When you add headcount to growing operations but the processes stay manual, you scale complexity rather than capacity. Revenue grows. Headcount grows faster. Margin compresses. The answer is not more people to manage the coordination. It is systems that eliminate the coordination overhead entirely.
Production data that arrives too late to act on
When production output, downtime events, and quality results have to be manually entered into the ERP, the data arrives hours after the events occurred. Supervisors make shift decisions on yesterday's numbers. Planners schedule tomorrow's production on incomplete information. The lag between what is happening on the floor and what the system knows about it has real operational costs.
Quality and production systems that do not connect
Quality results live in the quality management system. Production data lives in the MES or ERP. When these systems do not share data automatically, correlating quality issues with production conditions requires manual analysis that takes time and expertise. By the time the root cause is understood, the condition has repeated itself.
Reporting that consumes production management time
Shift reports, daily production summaries, quality scorecards, and KPI dashboards are assembled manually from multiple data sources. The people doing the assembling, supervisors, production managers, quality leads, are the same people whose job is to run the operation. Every hour spent on reporting is an hour not spent managing.
Systems that connect your production floor to your business systems, without manual entry.
LVRGWRKS builds custom automation and integration systems for manufacturing companies across Alberta and Western Canada. We connect your existing tools, your ERP, your MES or production management system, your quality system, your maintenance management platform, into a unified operating layer. No rip-and-replace. We build around what you have and eliminate the manual work between systems.
Production-to-ERP integration
Production output, material consumption, labour hours, and downtime events flow automatically from the production floor into your ERP and planning systems. No manual entry at shift end. Your inventory, costing, and scheduling data reflects what is actually happening in real time, not what someone recorded this morning.
Quality and production data integration
Quality results automatically correlated with production conditions: shift, line, operator, material lot, equipment settings. When a quality issue emerges, the relevant production context is already attached. Root cause analysis that used to take days takes hours. Corrections happen before the condition repeats.
Automated production reporting
Shift reports, daily production summaries, OEE calculations, and KPI dashboards generated automatically from data already flowing through your systems. No manual assembly. No waiting for someone to compile numbers. Leadership and supervisors see current operational performance without anyone building a report.
AI at production constraint points
We identify the specific points in your production system where AI can materially improve throughput, scheduling optimization, predictive quality, demand-driven material replenishment, maintenance prediction, and build targeted AI systems at those specific constraints. Not AI for the sake of it. AI where it changes the economics of your operation.
Alberta manufacturing faces pressures that demand operational precision
Labour availability, input cost volatility, and the demands of customers in resource-intensive industries mean Alberta manufacturers operate with tighter margins and less tolerance for operational waste than manufacturers in other markets. Getting more out of your current capacity is not a nice-to-have. It is a competitive requirement.
LVRGWRKS was founded in Calgary and works with manufacturing companies across Alberta and Western Canada. We understand the operational constraints of this market, the labour pressure, the input cost exposure, the customer requirements, because it is the context our clients navigate every day.
We work with discrete manufacturers, process manufacturers, and industrial fabricators ranging from 20 to 250 employees. If your team is running hard but the operation is not performing at the level the business needs, that gap is where we work.
Discrete Manufacturing
Job shop and batch production with complex routing, multi-level BOM management, and job cost tracking integrated to ERP.
Process Manufacturing
Continuous production monitoring, recipe management, quality integration, and yield tracking for process and chemical manufacturing operations.
Industrial Fabrication
Project-based fabrication with shop floor tracking, material traceability, inspection documentation, and client reporting automation.
Manufacturing Operations Questions, Answered
Why does our ERP not do what we bought it for?
Because an ERP records what happened. It rarely reaches the place the data starts. Production output, quality results, equipment status and labour hours are captured on the floor across terminals, paper logs and spreadsheets, then re-entered by someone into the system of record. The gap between the floor and the ERP is where the manual work lives, and it is usually invisible in the business case because nobody counted it. Adding modules to the ERP does not close that gap. Connecting the systems on either side of it does.
Should we replace our ERP or integrate what we already have?
Integrate first, and prove the constraint before you spend. The question is usually framed as replace or upgrade, which quietly assumes the ERP is the problem. Often it is not. Whether you run Business Central, SYSPRO, Epicor or something older and heavily customised, the real question is whether information moving between that system and the plant floor still requires a person. A replacement that does not close that gap moves the same problem into a newer system, on a longer timeline and a larger budget.
What does it cost to connect our ERP to the plant floor?
Engagements run $4,500 to $8,500 per month, capped at $8,500, with no upfront fee and no hardware cost. The retainer is set at roughly a third of the annual value the work creates rather than against a licence count or an implementation estimate, which is what makes the number predictable. Most integration quotes you will see are scoped against the number of connections. Ours is scoped against what the manual work between those systems is costing you now, and the Leverage Audit produces that figure before anything is committed.
How do we know the automation actually paid for itself?
You get a report every 30 days documenting labour hours recovered, how the automation is performing, and rolling return against what you are paying. That is a deliberate choice rather than a courtesy. Most automation return is argued after the fact from a model built before the work started, which is why so few of these projects can prove anything at renewal. Measuring monthly from month one means the number is either there or it is not, and you see it either way.
More questions answered on the LVRGWRKS FAQ, including what happens to your team when the work is rebuilt, where your data goes, and why the first build is scoped to 60 days.
How much capacity is your manual reporting overhead consuming?
The Leverage Audit maps your current workflows, identifies where data is moving manually between systems, and quantifies what that overhead is costing you in real dollars.
60 minutes. No cost. No commitment.
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