# Manufacturing

> TechFabric builds manufacturing catalogue search and procurement interfaces, traceable quality documentation exchange, and order management for industrial and automotive operations, working in the software and data layer above plant-floor control.

Canonical: https://www.techfabric.com/industries/manufacturing

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Findability is the whole job. An engineer searching a catalogue of hundreds of thousands of parts either locates the right one in seconds or calls someone, and every downstream process inherits that decision. We design the search, the procurement path and the interfaces around them, we make quality documents traceable instead of emailed, and we build the order management that industrial and automotive operations run on. Our depth is the software and data layer: catalogues, procurement, systems of record and the analytics above them.

## How much of this is manufacturing-specific?

Less than you would expect. The NMBT work at /case-studies/nmbt was UX research into how engineers search an enormous electro-magnetic parts catalogue, and findability under that kind of volume behaves the same way in distribution, retail and lending. The domain shapes the vocabulary and the compliance surface; the engineering underneath transfers.

## We need traceability for audits. Where does that come from?

From treating lineage as a product feature rather than a logging setting. SmartCert at /case-studies/smart-cert replaced emailed certificate attachments with a traceable exchange between manufacturers, distributors and their customers. On Databricks, Unity Catalog gives you the substrate and someone still has to ship the workflow people will use.

## Do you do plant-floor or industrial systems?

No. Our depth is the software and data layer above it: catalogues, procurement, systems of record, analytics and the applications people use every day. Industrial control and telemetry is a separate discipline.