[niklearnstodev]

Context: worked in the space a bit (~4 years, cumulatively), mech eng with a comp-sci minor, track the space from the outside now.

As others have pointed out, this is, as far as I've seen in the last decade, a very conservative industry in terms of taking risks and trying new things. Some companies build an excessive amount of infrastructure for these operations internally, some go entirely with legacy off-the-shelf stuff (think SAP, NetSuite/Oracle, etc), and some go with a blend of the above. I've seen little traction with modern software, but this is likely a byproduct of my only having seen some small number of companies' operations.

There are a number of companies trying to innovate in the space in a variety of ways, but here are some modern manufacturing ERP companies: - https://fulcrumpro.com/ - https://tulip.co/ - https://oden.io/ - https://www.machinemetrics.com/