Process automation at ralwo means: values that are retyped today between PLC, MES, ERP and Excel travel through an interface. Reports assembled by hand every Friday are produced by a scheduled job. Your team checks and decides – the software handles the routine. We start with one process.
In many industrial companies the same manual steps repeat every day: the shift supervisor copies piece counts from the MES into an Excel sheet, maintenance types meter readings from the plant into the ERP, sales keys order lines from PDF purchase orders into the inventory system. Process automation replaces these transfers with software that connects the systems directly, validates the data and runs tasks at a defined time. The result is fewer transcription errors, figures you can rely on and staff who have their time back for the work they were hired to do.
Automating business processes with software does not mean rebuilding your operation. We start with the process that costs the most time or fails most often and digitise it step by step: connect the data source first, then define the rules, then let the workflow run without manual work. Decisions stay with your people – the software prepares, checks and notifies. What proves itself is carried over to the next process. ralwo is a young company based in Schwerin, Germany, and works in small, traceable steps with clear acceptance criteria.
Four outcomes you can verify process by process – without a platform and without rebuilding your operation.
Three steps, as in every ralwo project – applied here to a single workflow you want to automate.
In a free conversation of around 30 minutes you describe the workflow that is done by hand today: who transfers what from where to where, how often, and what goes wrong along the way. We tell you plainly whether automation is worthwhile and what it would take.
We map the workflow, name data sources and targets, define validation rules and responsibilities and clarify which interfaces your systems offer. You receive a concept with an effort estimate and a quotation – at a fixed price where the scope is clear.
We implement the first process, run it in parallel with the existing way of working for a while and compare the results. Only then do we switch over. After that we operate the automation for you if you wish, and turn to the next workflow.
From the ralwo blog – background, worked examples and checklists, each with its sources.
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Five integration patterns between MES and ERP compared — and then the part almost nobody writes about: confirmation logic, duplicate protection and what happens when one system goes down.
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Automated workflows often need an application of their own, an evaluation or a model that reads documents. These three services interlock with automation.
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