Enterprise Intelligence

Most manufacturing organisations still treat Enterprise Architecture as an IT exercise, which is why EA efforts don’t change throughput, yield, quality stability, inventory accuracy, supplier reliability, or cost predictability. Manufacturing EA ≠ Manufacturing IT. This Director EA FAQ explains where traditional EA breaks down and how a true enterprise anatomy reveals the structure that IT alone cannot see, align, or repair. It explains the logic of shadow anatomies, 12 manuf

Machines received IoT sensors, predictive maintenance dashboards lit up, and cycle time reporting improved — but enterprise anatomy linking production, quality, supply chain, and service was never built.

Tape-out cycles shortened, design revisions flowed faster, and release milestones were hit — yet the enterprise structure linking R&D, supply chain, fabrication, quality, and customer delivery was never modeled.

Shop-floor supervisors could see production metrics in real time, downtime alerts were faster, and throughput reporting improved — yet the enterprise structure linking design, supply chain, production, quality, and customer delivery was never modeled.

A common pattern: shipping fast and calling it architecture. Quarterly launches dazzled, but dependencies, warranty flows, and service networks weren’t modeled as an enterprise.