Independent advice and integration for metalworking companies.
Become more productive through effective digital transformation.
Is your factory running into this?
Does one sound familiar? Then it is already costing you time, margin and customers.
- Do you have too many systems and no overview?
- Do you type the same order in again and again?
- Do you only find out at month-end what went wrong?
- Are customers moving to a competitor who delivers faster?
- Does it take too long to get from request to production?
- Stuck with legacy software that costs you more every month?
It doesn't have to be this way.
Imagine
What if your factory could do all of that? It can, with one data foundation that all your systems connect to: quoting, ERP, planning, machines and the shop floor. From there you build step by step, all the way to AI agents.
Start a project →More productive with UNS, knowledge graph and AI.
At Sheet Metal Connect we train your people, draw up the blueprint and build the solution. For that we use the unified namespace, a knowledge graph and AI, so you become more productive: faster delivery, better quality and less manual work.
The factory connected and visible in real time.
Own your factory.
What we build
Unified Namespace
- Machine connectivity
- Workstations with start/stop HMI
- ERP integration
- Historian and live visibility
Knowledge graph
- Asset and order model
- Relations with meaning
- Context for agents
- Built on the namespace
AI and machine learning
- Agents for repetitive work
- Prediction on your data
- Built on the graph
We connect with the common brands in metalworking
Proven integrations between quoting, ERP, CAM and the shop floor. Each integration is matched to the company's requirements wherever possible.
Orders to the shop floor; times and usage back in Odoo.
Odoo* ↔ shop floor
The calculation becomes the quotation in Odoo, no retyping.
QuotationFactory* ↔ Odoo
Manufacturability before the quote; the order complete in Oseon.
QuotationFactory ↔ TRUMPF Oseon*Every export available to ERP, planning and the shop floor.
QuotationFactory ↔ datahubOrders, machine status and stock from Oseon on the datahub.
TRUMPF Oseon ↔ datahubMetalworking,
A metalworking company that wants to work paperless, connected and in real time? Then Sheet Metal Connect is for you.
Sheet Metal Connect
Our mission
To keep the metal industry thriving: strong factories, middle-class jobs, a more sustainable world. The metal industry is the foundation of manufacturing and keeps our world moving. Factories that waste less material, energy and time.
Who we are
Luke van Enkhuizen, independent smart factory architect, with more than ten years of experience in the digitalisation of metalworking companies. Where needed, he works with a few specialists in unified namespace, AI, machine learning and cyber security. IT/OT integration and change management on the shop floor.
What we stand for
Innovation
No stagnation, just innovation in everything we do. We stand for cutting edge and the latest solutions, not for the current sentiment or whatever marketing comes up with.
Integrity
We advise what is best for your company, do what we agree and stick to it. When something changes, we say so openly.
Inspiration
We quickly show what is possible, so you see it work for yourself. We want to inspire, explain and teach.
Transparency
We are clear about what works and what does not: we have no interest in selling you licences. Where possible, you get a fixed price up front.
Ownership
You stay in charge of your factory: with your own team, on your own site and, where possible, with your own solutions.
30+ companies and 100+ professionals went before you.
In training, advisory and integration work, from the Benelux, Germany and Austria to Australia and the USA.
Luke's knowledge of digitization helps us make decisions for our smart factory. His experience with automation in sheet metalworking and IT was decisive for our cooperation.
Three steps to get started
Book a call
You tell us where your factory stands today and where you want to go.
The plan, together
We draw up a blueprint of your factory: what first, what later, what never.
Get to work
We build, connect and train, until your team can carry on by itself.
Dear business owner,
Metalworking is a craft. Yet the market is moving: customers order online elsewhere, or bring work in-house to cut lead times. Growth stalls, while prices cannot go any lower.
Things tend to get stuck between systems. Orders, drawings and feedback from the floor get retyped, searched for and chased. That costs lead time, quality and margin.
I know this from the inside. I have worked in metalworking, from the shop floor to IT, and for more than ten years I have helped metalworking companies digitalise. Today I build smart factories on a unified namespace, with AI agents taking over the repetitive work.
With Sheet Metal Connect I work with your team to build the unified namespace under your factory, connect your systems through proven integrations and train your people to use them. You deliver faster, with less manual work, and you are ready to work with AI agents.
Book a first call. You tell me where your factory stands; I show you what the next step takes.
