Industry22 Apr 2026· 6 min read
The decision layer above the dashboard
Dashboards report. Decisions act. The gap between them is where Tier-1 and Tier-2 plants quietly burn their best engineering hours.
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- Field notes8 Apr 2026· 8 min read
What we learned in three Tier-2 stamping plants
Three plants. Three different MES vendors. The same Monday meeting. Here's what an agentic decision layer actually changes when it lands on the floor.
Aesthon Labs·Customer success - Opinion19 Mar 2026· 4 min read
OEE meetings shouldn't be the bottleneck
Every plant we visit runs OEE meetings. Almost no plant we visit thinks they're effective. Here's why we're betting agents will eat them.
Aesthon Labs·Founding team - Engineering2 Mar 2026· 12 min read
How Foreman agents reason about root cause
A working note on how we ground LLM reasoning in MES events, historian signals, and SOPs, without hallucinating actions onto your line.
Aesthon Labs·Product team - Company14 Feb 2026· 5 min read
Why Malaysia first
Why a deep-tech startup chose Tier-1/Tier-2 Malaysian automotive plants as the first customers, and what we believe that lets us build that a Bay Area founder couldn't.
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