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ManufacturingProduct Engineering2023

Atlas Manufacturing

Replacing brittle legacy software on the factory floor

Atlas cut production incidents by two-thirds and stopped fearing every software change.

Reduction in production incidents
−68%
Reduction in production incidents
Faster delivery of new features
2.0x
Faster delivery of new features
Test coverage on business-critical paths
100%
Test coverage on business-critical paths

The challenge

Atlas ran on undocumented, decade-old software that only one engineer fully understood. Every change risked halting the line, new hires took months to ramp, and the technical debt was quietly capping the company's growth.

Our approach

We stabilized the existing system first, documented its real behavior, then rebuilt it in scalable increments — never a risky big-bang cutover. Senior engineers owned the architecture and handed it back fully documented.

The solution

A modern production-tracking platform now gives the floor real-time visibility, absorbs growth without a rewrite, and ships changes safely through automated testing and CI/CD — so releases are routine instead of white-knuckle.

What we delivered

  • Incremental rebuild with zero unplanned line downtime
  • Real-time production and inventory visibility
  • Automated testing and CI/CD for safe, routine releases
  • Architecture documented and handed to the in-house team
  • Scalable data model built to absorb 10x volume
We used to hold our breath every deploy. Now we ship weekly without drama, and onboarding a new engineer takes days, not months.
Rebecca ChoDirector of Engineering, Atlas Manufacturing

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