To equip manufacturers with a connected, intelligent platform to plan, execute, and manage.

Manufacturing Is Returning Home

America is reshoring its industrial base after decades of outsourcing production internationally. Established companies are returning and new ones are breaking ground. Manufacturing is being treated as a national strength, not a legacy industry, for the first time in over a generation. However, production is expected to scale on the back of outdated, siloed software systems. Meric is bringing next-generation software to this new era of American manufacturing.

The Persistent Gap

Working at opposite ends of the manufacturing spectrum, we have experienced the same gap between production execution and the systems used to report, plan, and manage it. Legacy software requires constant manual updating that is inevitably executed off platform, on whiteboards or in Excel. As a result, the software implemented to support production is not reflective of reality and drags efficiency down.

Slater Is the Backbone of Your Operation

Slater is grounded in the underlying logic of all manufacturing. The logic of inventory, routings, work centers, and work orders. We have leveraged this standardization as a prime base for the deployment of frontier artificial “super” intelligence in manufacturing software.

Getting raw material to finished goods as quickly and efficiently as possible depends on a strong schedule, which is why Slater is a schedule-first platform, built on a constraint solver that weighs every order’s priority and due date against machine capacity, shifts, and material arrivals.

Slater reads your plant’s existing data and builds a working model of the operation in hours, not months. As steps start, finish, or stall, and as supplier dates and demand shift, Slater keeps that model current and re-evaluates your plan. Planners, buyers, and supervisors talk to Slater in plain words, and it answers from your plant’s own data and shows its work.

Slater keeps a record of your plant and draws on it the next time it plans, answers, or suggests. Slater brings your ERP data, the schedule, incoming material and a lightweight MES into one plant model that updates as work is reported. That same model is the foundation for purchasing, costing, maintenance, quality, demand planning and product lifecycle management. Slater is built to become the decision-making layer of the whole manufacturing operation.