Industrial · 45 employees
Mid-market plant gets single-screen visibility
Spreadsheets, paper, QuickBooks, and a standalone QMS nobody loved. A 45-person industrial plant ran every operation in a different tool, with no single place to see how the day was going. Cortrova unified seven operational areas with 33 cross-module integrations, replaced the manual scramble with daily AI briefings, and gave the plant a single screen that finally tells the whole story.
The challenge
Operations were fragmented across disconnected tools - spreadsheets for production and inventory, paper for safety and quality, QuickBooks for the books, and a standalone QMS that the team avoided. Nobody could answer a simple question like 'how is today going?' without opening five systems and reconciling them by hand. There was no unified operational picture, and the manual processes that held it all together consumed hours that a 45-person plant could not spare.
The challenge
Five tools, zero shared truth.
A lean industrial plant had grown one tool at a time. Each function solved its own problem, and none of them talked to the others.
Disconnected systems
Production and inventory lived in spreadsheets, safety and quality on paper, accounting in QuickBooks, and quality in a standalone QMS - four data islands plus a database that nobody trusted.
No operational visibility
There was no single place to see the state of the plant. Answering a basic status question meant pulling reports from five tools and reconciling them by hand.
Manual everything
Safety records, quality records, maintenance logs, and job costing were maintained by hand, so the numbers were always a day or a week behind reality.
Audit prep was a scramble
Pulling evidence for an ISO 9001 audit meant chasing paper and spreadsheets across the floor, every time.
The approach
One platform, seven areas, 33 integrations.
Cortrova replaced the patchwork in a single 4-8 week implementation. Seven operational areas moved onto one data model, and 33 cross-module integrations kept them in sync without manual re-entry.
Unify the seven areas
Safety, quality, maintenance, production, inventory, purchasing, and finance were brought onto one platform, replacing the spreadsheets, paper, and standalone tools that came before.
Wire the integrations
33 cross-module integrations connect the departments, so a goods receipt, a quality result, or a maintenance event updates everywhere it matters - no double entry, no reconciliation.
Turn on daily AI briefings
A Trunnion AI agent compiles a daily briefing for plant management - what changed overnight, what needs attention, and where the day's risks sit - instead of the manual morning report.
Integrate job costing
Production, inventory, and purchasing feed finance directly, so labor and material roll into job costs automatically rather than being re-keyed from QuickBooks.
Automate audit prep
Safety and quality evidence is captured as work happens, so ISO 9001 audit packages assemble from live records instead of a paper chase.
The outcome
The whole plant on one screen.
For the first time, the team could open a single screen and see the real state of the operation. Management starts the day with an AI briefing instead of a reconciliation exercise, and the manual processes that ran the plant are now connected workflows.
Single-screen visibility
One dashboard shows production, quality, safety, maintenance, inventory, and the financial picture together - the unified view the plant never had across five tools.
Seven areas unified
Operations that lived in spreadsheets, on paper, and in QuickBooks now run on one platform with one source of truth.
33 integrations active
Cross-module integrations keep every department in sync automatically, ending the manual re-entry and reconciliation that ate the team's hours.
Daily AI briefings
Plant management gets a concrete morning briefing on what changed and what needs attention, instead of opening five systems to find out.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
What were the seven operational areas that got unified?
The plant brought safety, quality, maintenance, production, inventory, purchasing, and finance onto one platform. Those functions previously lived in a mix of spreadsheets, paper, QuickBooks, and a standalone QMS, with no shared data between them. On Cortrova they share a single data model, so each area can see and react to what the others are doing.
What does 'single-screen visibility' actually mean here?
It means one dashboard shows the true state of the plant - production status, open quality and safety items, maintenance, inventory, and the financial picture - in one place. Before Cortrova, answering a simple 'how is today going?' meant pulling reports from five separate tools and reconciling them by hand. Now it is one screen.
What are the daily AI briefings?
A Trunnion AI agent reads across the unified data and compiles a short daily briefing for plant management: what changed overnight, what needs attention today, and where the day's risks are concentrated. It replaces the manual morning report that someone used to assemble by hand from multiple systems.
Is a 45-person plant big enough to justify a full ERP?
That was exactly the doubt. With a flat annual rate and unlimited users, Cortrova does not penalize a lean team for putting everyone on the platform, and the 4-8 week implementation kept the rollout proportional to the plant's size. The payoff was ending the manual reconciliation and audit-prep work that a small team could least afford to spend hours on.
Are these results typical?
These are representative outcomes for a small industrial manufacturer consolidating disconnected tools onto Cortrova; the client is anonymized and the figures describe this engagement. Specific results depend on how many systems a plant is replacing and how its current processes are structured, but the unification, integration, and daily-briefing pattern is consistent across lean industrial deployments.
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