Manufacturing generates an enormous amount of data—most of which are either never measured, or ditched before decision-makers get a chance to use it. Digital Manufacturing solutions effectively merge people, process, and technology by creating actionable insights at every level of the organization to enhance all aspects of your business.
Our solutions, including Live Factory® by C5MI, integrate these technologies into your manufacturing process, providing tailored data insights to maximize investments, reduce risk, and improve your overall business outcomes.
Unlock real-time visibility and gather key performance analytics by scheduling a live demo of SAP® Digital Manufacturing Cloud today.
With our expertise in production planning and control, we know MOM systems optimize production, reduce costs, and boost productivity.
Track availability, performance, and quality in real-time with C5MI’s OEE solution to ensure your operation remains productive and goals are met.
As SAP system experts, we seamlessly integrate RTLS with your SAP Digital Core. RTLS, now a standard technology in everyday devices, bridges the gap between physical and transactional data, much like Wi-Fi transformed manufacturing. Our RTLS solution goes beyond tracking movement, integrating location data with ERP/MES systems and business logic to optimize operations and minimize business risk.
Trying to take the leap but need to understand how RTLS truly works? Schedule a POC and we will demonstrate the capability on site, with your team, live.
Sometimes, your organization needs tailoring to and we are no stranger to this. We look forward to diving in with you and your team to develop the right solution for you to reach your goals.
Through a variety of off the shelf solutions, we avoid all customizations and can seamlessly plug into your existing processes.
We partner with the best to provide solutions for your needs
Sewio® is a leading player in the Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) RTLS space. As part of the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services, Sewio provides the robust capability needed to drive sub meter accuracy in RTLS solutions. As a Sewio Silver Partner, C5MI is the premier provider for Sewio SAP system integrations to ensure you get the most our of your SAP software and RTLS System. In the end, RTLS solutions create visibility and insights to reduce risk in operations.
Through their Atrius® solution, Acuity Brands® is a leading provider of Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) and is dedicated to redefining the capabilities of modern spaces. Atrius provides an innovative solution that is pushing the boundaries of RTLS and the use of BLE. At C5MI, we recognize the overarching power of RTLS and partner with the best to deliver the solutions that drive Industry 4.0 innovation.
Reduce business risk
Increase quality, throughput, and reliability
Reduce employee non-value-added (NVA) time
Maximize operational effectiveness
Increase customer satisfaction
Improve Environmental, Sustainability, and Governance
A leading Industrial Machinery and Components (IM&C) manufacturer in the US delivering reliable solutions for efficient air conditioning, air flow, and control to building owners and occupants worldwide. Their products deliver air comfort, safety, and energy efficiency.
Improves quality of process and product requiring less resources to produce products.
Drives improved labor efficiency through automation and improved visibility of operational processes.
Through improved throughput, you create more product with fewer resources while further driving process automation throughout your operations.
Real Time Location Systems improves the visibility of material and integrates transactional information to create a common operational picture.
Creates a Live Factory to provide a single version of the truth that reduces data latency to improve awareness and decisional support to increase productivity.
Stage 6
The system acts. The team manages strategy, not execution.
At full maturity, the supply chain does not wait for human decisions on routine operational matters — it makes them. Robots execute warehouse tasks. RPA handles transactional processes. AI optimizes routing, scheduling, and inventory positioning continuously. The organization’s people shift from executing operational decisions to overseeing the systems that make them.
C5MI’s Automation Center of Excellence, AI practice, and Industry 4.0 capabilities are built for organizations ready to take the human out of the loop — deploying robotics, RPA, and autonomous execution as a coordinated operating model, not a collection of disconnected tools.
Stage 5
Stop reacting to what happened. Start managing what is coming.
This is the shift from reactive to proactive. The organization has real-time visibility and the ability to respond — but it is still responding to events after they occur. Predictability means the system anticipates what is going to happen: demand fluctuations, supply disruptions, inventory shortfalls, production risks. Leaders stop firefighting and start managing forward.
C5MI’s Live Warehouse predictive capabilities and SCAR’s Network and Inventory Optimization module align inventory policy and supply chain planning to what is actually going to happen — shifting leadership from reactive management to forward confidence.
Stage 4
You can see what is happening. Now the operation can respond to it.
Visibility changes what you know. Adaptability changes what you do with it. At Stage 4, real-time data stops being observed and starts driving action — dynamic task reallocation, exception-triggered responses, workforce adjustments made in minutes rather than hours. The operation develops the capability to adapt to what the live data is telling it, not what a shift debrief reveals afterwards.
SCAR’s Workforce Enablement module and C5MI’s Live Warehouse event-driven capabilities give operations the governance structures and real-time response tools to act on what the data is telling them — consistently, across every site and shift.
Stage 3
The data exists. Now let the system tell you what is happening.
At this point, the integrations are in place and the data is there — but it is not being surfaced in real time. Operations are still managed from lagging reports, periodic system checks, and verbal updates. The shift this stage delivers is simple but significant: instead of finding out what happened, you see what is happening — live status across warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics.
C5MI’s Live Warehouse capability and SCAR’s Live Visibility module turn integrated data into a live operational picture — giving supervisors and leadership real-time status across every facility and function.
Stage 2
The systems exist. They are not talking to each other
This is where foundational platforms are in place but operating in isolation. IT systems hold transactional data. OT systems — sensors, equipment, production lines, warehouse automation — generate operational data. The two worlds are not connected, which means decisions are still made on incomplete information. Cross-site visibility does not exist.
C5MI bridges IT and OT through its Digital Core integration capabilities and SCAR’s EWM Transformation module — aligning systems to operational reality and connecting data across sites and functions.
Stage 1
The platform is invested in. Now it needs to perform.
C5MI implements, standardizes, and sustains SAP Digital Core systems — EWM, S/4HANA, TM, and EAM. Most organizations arrive here having made the investment but not yet seeing the performance. The technology is deployed. The gap between what the system was designed to deliver and what the operation is actually getting is where C5MI starts.
C5MI implements, standardizes, and sustains SAP Digital Core systems — delivering the performance the investment was designed to produce, and maintaining it long after go-live.
