Built by someone who has actually run factories — and now builds the systems behind them.
Sentinel Manufacturing Core Suite™ exists because too many plants are stuck between paper, spreadsheets, and heavyweight systems that never quite match what happens on the floor.
The goal is simple: give operators, technicians, and leaders one live picture of the plant — EM, production, quality, safety, and parts — without a multi-year “digital transformation” project.
Our mission
Help manufacturing teams reduce downtime, standardize operations, and grow into full smart-factory capability with tools that work on day one — not year three.
- Put the right information in front of the right people mid-shift.
- Bridge the gap between EM, production, quality, safety, and parts.
- Make AI practical, safe, and grounded in real plant data.
Why Sentinel Manufacturing Core Suite™ exists
If you walk a typical factory, you’ll see the same patterns: radios lighting up with EM calls, downtime reasons scribbled on paper, spreadsheets trying to glue systems together, and leaders asking for a simple view of “How are we actually running today?”.
Sentinel is designed as the operational layer that sits between your people and the systems you already have — CMMS, ERP, MES, historians — giving everyone a shared, live view of what’s happening right now.
Pain points we see in almost every plant
- EM / breakdowns are tracked in radios and inboxes, not one queue.
- Downtime coding is incomplete or inconsistent across lines.
- Parts information is spread across ERP, spreadsheets, and memory.
- Quality and safety events live in isolated logs, not tied to assets.
- Leadership relies on backward-looking reports instead of live data.
- AI feels abstract, risky, or bolted-on instead of practical.
How we build Sentinel
Every feature in Sentinel is shaped by a few simple principles. They’re guardrails to keep the platform practical for real plants, not just slide decks.
Fast to deploy
Start with a single line or area, prove value quickly, then scale. No nine-month implementation cycles required to see the first result.
Operator-first
Interfaces are designed for the people using them mid-shift, on mobile, with gloves, radios, and ten other things demanding attention.
Plays well with others
Sentinel doesn’t try to replace your CMMS, ERP, or MES. It connects and extends them, giving you one operational view.
AI, but practical
AI is focused on pattern recognition, recommendations, and questions grounded in your plant’s actual data — not generic models detached from reality.
Built for uptime
Environment separation, audit logging, backups, and connectivity options are treated as first-class features, not afterthoughts.
Transparent and opinionated
Sentinel brings a point of view on how to run EM, downtime, and operations — but always with configuration options to match your plant’s reality.
Where Sentinel is headed
The core suite focuses on EM, production, quality, safety, and parts. From there, the roadmap extends toward richer predictive insights, multi-site rollups, and deeper integrations with the systems you already use.
The long-term vision is simple: a single operational intelligence layer that helps factories of any size run more reliably, learn from their own data, and make better decisions at every level.
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