Notes From the Factory Floor
Case studies, perspectives, what we're building, and what we're learning from the shops we work with.
Case study
HighCom Armor: From One Email to a Shared Operational Brain
One email became a four-scenario delivery plan in about eight hours — and grew into the operational platform behind HighCom Armor’s planning, forecasting, and reporting, with the wider HighCom Group now evaluating the platform.
August 2026 · ProDex Team
Perspectives
The Last Migration (and how it caused a gummy bear shortage)
The S/4HANA deadline is really a bill for decades of human ETL. A career data engineer’s case that in the AI era, the system of record and the system of decision no longer have to be the same system.
Shreesham Mukherjee
Comparison
ProDex vs FlexSim: Choosing a Manufacturing Simulation Platform in 2026
FlexSim defined desktop 3D factory simulation. ProDex makes simulation an AI-native, browser-based operating capability. We compare them the way an operations team would — and put the AI-agent claims to a live test.
ProDex Team
Perspectives
You Can't Surge What You Can't See
America hasn't forgotten how to build missiles. The lesson from the last few weeks is that we need to treat defense production as an engineering problem with a verifiable, data-driven answer.
Kushan Weerakoon
External ↗
Case study
Large Defense Prime: From “Clean the Data First” to Decisions in Hours
A multi-week pilot put ProDex head-to-head with the incumbent tools across two large-defense-prime sites. ProDex won all seven use cases — and removed the months of data cleanup that usually must come first.
ProDex Team
Perspectives
The 3 S's of Industrial War: Speed, Scale, Sustainment
The wars we might have to fight — and the factories that aren't ready for them.
Rick Li
Case study
From a Full Day to Minutes: How Alimentos Prosalud Accelerated Production Planning
How one of the main seafood processors in the western hemisphere transformed daily release planning from spreadsheet chaos to structured, real-time decision-making.
ProDex Team
Perspectives
The Only Way a Market Society Wins an Industrial War
Why software, not central planning, is America's path to industrial power.
Kushan Weerakoon
Product
Truly “Advanced” Planning and Scheduling
To make factories beautiful systems, we must reinvent APS from scratch.
Kushan Weerakoon
Mission
Beautiful Systems: The Return of Operations Research
Our manifesto: factories can become the most beautifully efficient systems in the world.
Rick Li