PODCAST: The Shop Floor Blind Spot: Why ERP Isn’t Enough for Modern Manufacturers

For decades, manufacturers have been running complex operations with surprisingly little visibility into what’s actually happening on their shop floor.

ERP systems track orders. They track inventory. They track financials. What they’ve never been great at is telling you what your machines are actually doing right now — and why it matters.

That gap is where Datanomix was born.

Datanomix Founder and CEO, Greg McHale, sat down with Tony Gunn on The Machinists Club Podcast to talk about exactly this: why production monitoring has become one of the most important conversations in modern manufacturing, where the lines between ERP and operational intelligence are starting to blur, and what we think the next generation of shop management actually looks like.

They also talked about something we care deeply about — why the best manufacturing software gets built by people who spend time listening to machinists and operators, not just analysts and product managers.

If you’re running a shop and you’ve ever felt like you’re making decisions based on yesterday’s information, this one’s for you.