Our Story

Our Story

Two sides of the same industry. One story, finally whole.

We're the vendor side and the factory-floor side, taught by the two people who actually live on each end.

Kunal Wagh
 
The factory-floor side
Kunal Wagh
IT Shopfloor Expert
MES consultant across automotive & EV battery plants.
Matt Barber
 
The vendor side
Matt Barber
VP & GM, MES
Engineer to global GM. Writes MES Matters.
 
How This Started

Not a business plan. A conversation that kept happening.

 
01
Two sides

One career in the product. One career in the plant.

Matt: global MES strategy, vendor side. Kunal: MES implementation, real shopfloors.

02
Already teaching, separately

Both already teaching this, separately

Matt at MES Matters. Kunal building a community for MES pros. Neither knew the other yet.

03
Same complaint

Same wall, hit from opposite sides

What sells and what survives a real factory floor are rarely the same thing.

04
The decision

So we built it together

One course. Both sides. No platform to sell. Smart Factory Core.

Why This Exists

What gets built and what gets used are rarely taught by the same person.

 

What gets built.

Product strategy, platform capability, the pitch — shaped by what sells and what scales across customers.

 
The Gap
 

What gets used.

Shift patterns, legacy equipment, operators who need it to just work — shaped by the plant, not the pitch.

Smart Factory Core

This is why we're building the course.

Everything we're putting into Smart Factory Core comes from that gap — taught by two people who've each spent their careers on opposite sides of it.

Free to join. No platform to sell you.