Project VERUS
Inside VERUS
What the screens look like, with the demonstration’s real numbers. Two made-up companies: Alpha Fabrication in the United States, with plants HB and KC, and Beta Extrusions in Canada. These are pictures, not the live product. To see it run, ask for a demonstration.
1The owner: every company on one definition
A holding company, an investor or a board sees both companies side by side, read from their systems. Sales stay in each company’s own currency. On-time delivery carries the warning VERUS found in the data: promise dates moved after shipping. People are counts, never names.
Owner: the companies
Amounts are in more than one currency, so they are shown by currency, not added together.
The first promise VERUS saw is used, and before it was connected some promises were already set to the ship date after shipping. 1,252 order lines had their promise date set to the ship date after shipping.
Amounts are in more than one currency, so they are shown by currency, not added together.
2What the agents found
Agents watch the data and raise what needs a person. The first is the owner’s own: Alpha’s largest customer, untouched for months. The rest come from the plants’ agents, each within what the owner may see.
What the agents found
- OpenKey accounts gone quietconfidence 85%
No customer activity in 107 days: Northern Doors 50 (company code A1, customer number C00050)
Number 1 of the 10 largest by Sales entered, at $807,396 from 2025-09-29 to 2026-09-28. Its last customer activity was on 2026-06-14, and the limit is 45 days.
- OpenCustomers below 85% on timeconfidence 90%
On-time delivery (line level) below its limit, customer number C00036
50% from 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27; the limit is 85%.
- OpenCustomers below 85% on timeconfidence 90%
On-time delivery (line level) below its limit, customer number C00002
75% from 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27; the limit is 85%.
- OpenCustomers below 85% on timeconfidence 90%
On-time delivery (line level) below its limit, customer number C00060
33.3% from 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27; the limit is 85%.
- OpenCustomers below 85% on timeconfidence 90%
On-time delivery (line level) below its limit, customer number C00014
75% from 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27; the limit is 85%.
- OpenMaintenance falling behind before breakdownsconfidence 71%
PM completion fell, work center code KC01: expect downtime minutes to follow
PM completion was 0% in the month starting 2026-08-01, against a usual 100%. It moves before downtime minutes by 1 month: expect downtime minutes work center code KC01 to worsen from 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-30.
3A plant manager's morning
The HB plant manager sees HB and nothing else: yesterday by line and department, last week’s maintenance and overtime. Where a number carries a caveat, the tile says so.
Morning: the plant
This adds quantities in more than one unit of measure (EA, FT); break it down by unit of measure to see each.
A breakdown by cause is only as good as the coding behind it, and one code covers most entries. One value, 99, is 56% of the reason code on downtime events from DWNLOG.
4The morning brief
What the plant manager reads at six: what matters most, yesterday against the same day a week before, the findings waiting for a decision, and the outside world where it touches the plant’s costs.
Your brief for Tuesday 29 September 2026
- On-time delivery dropped to 86% with four customers below the 85% limit (C00060 at 33%, C00036 at 50%, C00002 and C00014 at 75%); only C00002 has a plan.
- Overtime hours jumped from 7 to 62 hours, labor efficiency fell to 86% from 88%, and scrap nearly doubled from 9 to 17 units.
- Sales shipped rose 181% to $61,826 and downtime improved from 283 to 165 minutes.
- Steel producer prices up 2% and iron-steel up 1% in August; plastic resins down 1%.
Monday 28 September, against the same day a week before
| Measure | That day | A week before | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build completion | 85.7% | 77.8% | better |
| Labor efficiency | 86.2% | 87.6% | worse |
| Overtime hours | 61.9 h | 6.7 h | worse |
| Scrap quantity | 17 | 9 | worse |
| Downtime minutes | 165 min | 283 min | better |
| PM completion | 100.0% | 100.0% | steady |
| On-time delivery against the original promise | 85.7% | 100.0% | worse |
| Sales shipped | $61,826 | $22,027 | better |
| Orders entered | 1 | 1 | steady |
| Parts below their safety stock | 1 | none | steady |
Findings waiting for a decision
- On-time delivery (line level) below its limit, customer number C00002plan accepted
- On-time delivery (line level) below its limit, customer number C00014no plan
- On-time delivery (line level) below its limit, customer number C00036no plan
- On-time delivery (line level) below its limit, customer number C00060no plan
The outside world
- Producer price index: steel mill products. Mentions steel, a key materialup 1.7% in August
- Producer price index: plastic resins and materials. Mentions resin, a key materialdown 1.0% in August
- Producer price index: iron and steel. Mentions steel, a key materialup 0.9% in August