If you run more than one system to make things (ERP, PLM, MES, quality, planning), your numbers live in pieces that never quite agree. i3volve uses AI to read across all of them and build one trusted picture: true cost, real margin, yield and traceability. Whatever you make, whatever you run.
Engineering and manufacturing reporting is slow and contested because the systems disagree. The engineering BOM sits in one tool, the production BOM in another, the actuals on the shop floor in a third, quality and planning somewhere else again. Whatever combination you run, i3volve closes the gap with two things working together: agents that do the reconciling, and a connector fabric that feeds them.
Agents that read across your systems and answer the questions a dashboard can't. They run on OData and the Model Context Protocol, not screen-scraping.
The connectors that make the agents possible: maintained integrations into whatever systems you run, including the ones generalist partners won't follow you into.
Not another dashboard. The reporting layer answers the operational questions that today take a controller two days and three exports to assemble, and it shows its working.
Standard versus actual, materials, labour and scrap rolled up by part and by job, so margin is a number you trust, not an estimate.
Engineering BOM in PLM against the production BOM in ERP against as-built, with the cost of every engineering change made visible.
Scrap and yield by line, work centre and shift, measured against standard and pulled straight from the shop floor, not typed up after.
Availability, performance and quality from MES, tied back to the cost and order impact in ERP: one story, not two systems.
Forward and backward genealogy across lot and serial for recall, audit and customer compliance, answered in seconds.
Period close, consolidation and a board-ready pack that ties back to source, with the lineage attached for the auditor.
Establish a trusted system of record: work with the ERP you have, or implement Dynamics 365 where you need one.
Wire in PLM and MES through maintained connectors, so engineering, production and the shop floor feed one model.
Build the shared data model where BOMs, costs and actuals finally agree, and disagreements become visible, not buried.
Deploy the agents against agreed outcomes (margin, variance, yield, traceability, close), each one a defined deliverable.
Add questions as you go. Every new agent reuses the same reconciled foundation, so the layer gets more valuable over time.
Built on a decade of shipping Dynamics 365 and AI-driven software, i3volve is now pointed at one thing: reporting for engineering and manufacturing businesses. We go deep on a narrow domain instead of wide on everything, which is exactly why we can answer the questions a horizontal partner can't.
Engineering and manufacturing is the only world we work in: BOMs, routings, work centres, lots, traceability. Whatever you make, we know the shape of the data and where it hides.
Working agents built on OData and the Model Context Protocol, not a Copilot demo on a slide. Engineering you can inspect, with the lineage shown.
The hard part of engineering and manufacturing reporting lives outside ERP, in PLM, MES, quality and planning. We build and maintain the connectors most partners quote around and never deliver.
We price against defined deliverables like a reconciled close or a working traceability answer, so you pay for results, and the risk of "it didn't work" sits with us.
Bring us the report that takes too long or never quite ties out: a margin, a yield, a traceability answer. We'll scope what it takes to reconcile it, and what it's worth. No retainer to start the conversation.