Notes from Raven

Where Duplicate Material Codes Come From, and How Plants Clean Them Up

The same seal, stocked under two codes, bought at two prices. Duplicates are not a discipline problem. They are what free-text descriptions do to a material master over twenty years.

Priyansh Srivastava

August 30, 2026 · 7 min read

The BOM Is Not Missing. It Is Printed in a Manual Nobody Has Read.

Walk through a typical EAM and half the equipment has no bill of materials behind it. The parts are not lost. They are sitting in spare parts lists, GA drawings, and IOM manuals, waiting to be read.

Priyansh Srivastava

August 30, 2026 · 7 min read

Fix the Plant Data Before the Migration, Not During It

A migration moves your equipment and material masters into a new system. It does not repair them. The months before the mapping workshops are the one window where cleansing is calm, funded, and evidence-based.

Priyansh Srivastava

August 30, 2026 · 7 min read

MCP Solved Agent-to-App. App-to-Agent Is Still Missing.

MCP covers agent to app. There is no standard for app to agent. The missing piece is a protocol, and a small local daemon to prove it.

Priyansh Srivastava

July 2026 · 5 min read

Why a Small Plant Change Can Trigger a Large Review

A valve, line, or instrument may change in one place. The engineering review still has to find every drawing, procedure, safeguard, and record that may be affected.

Priyansh Srivastava

June 12, 2026 · 6 min read

Why Two Software Engineers Came Back to Manufacturing

We grew up around Hazira, built software for fast-moving startups, and returned home before we understood what we wanted to build.

Priyansh Srivastava & Sriyansh Srivastava

January 13, 2025 · 5 min read