Engineering Research

    Technical research from MileSoft Engineering

    Peer-reviewed working papers on the software architectures, computational methods, and field evidence behind MileSoft's four domain solutions — written for engineers, procurement teams, and technical evaluators.

    Papers

    Research by domain

    One technical paper per domain — architecture, methods, and measurable field results.

    Industry 4.0 Published

    A Governed Event Spine for Discrete Manufacturing: Traceability, Visual Management, and Enterprise Integration

    Architecture, Computational Methods, and Field Evidence from the MileSoft Industry 4.0 Suite

    Discrete manufacturers are asked to prove, after the fact, what happened to a single unit on a single shift months earlier. The evidence needed to answer that question is generated continuously by torque controllers, programmable logic controllers, barcode and RFID readers, and human buyoff stations — and is then scattered across vendor-specific log formats, spreadsheets, and paper escalation sheets. The result is a traceability gap: the data exists, but it cannot be assembled into an answer within the time an audit, a containment action, or a warranty dispute allows.

    98%Reduction in critical-fastener warranty rework
    <15sAndon mean time to first response
    +11ppLine-average OEE improvement
    Industry 4.0Manufacturing traceabilityTorque traceabilityAndon systemsMaterial genealogy
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    Manufacturing Pokayoke Published

    Making the Wrong Action Impossible: Software-Enforced Poka-Yoke in Automotive Assembly

    Architecture, Computational Methods, and Field Evidence from the MileSoft Pokayoke Suite

    Shigeo Shingo drew a distinction that most quality programmes still blur: between a device that warns an operator of a deviation and a device that makes the deviating action impossible. Only the second is poka-yoke in his sense. The first is instrumentation, and its effectiveness is bounded by operator attention — which is exactly the variable that fails under time pressure, on night shifts, and on the sixth close-cousin variant of a part.

    0Wrong-part picks since rollout
    92%Drop in OEM containment incidents
    5 daysOperator ramp-up, from 4-6 weeks
    Poka-yokeError proofingSource inspectionPick-to-lightADAS radar alignment
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    Warehouse Management Published

    One State Store from Gate to Shelf: Unifying Yard, Warehouse, and Fleet Operations

    Architecture, Computational Methods, and Field Evidence from the MileSoft Warehouse Suite

    A distribution centre is a queueing system whose servers are dock doors and whose customers are vehicles, wrapped around an inventory system whose accuracy determines whether the queue can be served at all. In most operations these two systems are managed by different tools, or by no tool: yard scheduling lives in messaging apps and paper trip sheets, while the warehouse management system holds a book position that diverges from the shelf. The consequence is not merely inefficiency. It is that neither system can answer the operational question that matters — where is this object right now, and what is it waiting for.

    38%Reduction in dock idle time
    1h 20mAverage truck dwell, from 3h 10m
    99.4%Inventory accuracy, from 91%
    Warehouse management systemYard managementTruck turnaround timeDock schedulingOrder picking
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    Per-product research

    A technical paper for every software solution

    Beyond the four domain papers, each individual MileSoft solution is documented in its own working paper — architecture, computational methods, the standards it answers to, and measured results from production deployments.

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