ANT Solutions · Ho Chi Minh City
We automate anddigitise your business —from the hardware on the ground to the dashboard in your pocket.
ANT Solutions provides digital transformation solutions from Ho Chi Minh City for mid-size and large businesses — manufacturers among them, but far from only. We build the automation, the hardware and the software: we survey on site, design and install what the work needs, connect the systems and machines you already run, then bring the numbers onto a single screen — in real time, not at month end.
On-site assessment
We spend time on site before proposing anything
Automation & robotics
Automated lines, robot arms, inspection stations
Hardware & machine integration
PLCs, scales, scanners, sensors, QC cameras
Software & data
Production, warehouse, and a real-time dashboard
The first meeting is a walk through your operation and thirty minutes of listening. No sales deck, no quote at the table.
Overview
· Binh Duong plant
Search orders, SKUs…
Today
Live
Updated just now
Revenue today
$73.9K
+12.4%
Output today
12,480 pcs
+4.1%
Orders confirmed
148
+9
Revenue · Cost · Net profit (12 months)
Revenue
$3.7M
Cost
$2.44M
Net profit
$1.26M
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Equipment effectiveness (OEE)
87%
Line A
92%
Line B
78%
Line C
95%
We work with
Manufacturing plants
Precision engineering
Food processing
Textiles & footwear
Plastics & packaging
Construction materials
Logistics & distribution
How we work with you
Your business has run wellfor twenty years.Going digital is not an argument with that.
The process you built over twenty years is usually where the advantage lives. Our job is not to replace it but to understand it properly and then remove the parts that are costing you time. The three principles below are how we hold ourselves to that — and you will see each of them again in the rest of this page.
01
We start from where you are
We study how you work today before proposing anything. What already works is kept and connected to, not replaced for the sake of it.
02
There is no cut-over day
Old and new run side by side, delivered in pieces that are usable immediately. Stop at any phase and you keep everything already delivered.
03
You own what we build
The source code, the data and the operating documentation are yours from the first contract. Your team is trained alongside us so you can carry on without calling us.
Chapter 01
Before and after
The same plant, run two different ways
On the left is what we usually find on a first assessment visit. On the right is the same plant once its numbers live in one place.
Today
Paper, spreadsheets, chat and memory
After transformation
One source of numbers
The monthly report reaches you 14 days late, after the decision is made
Figures update the moment an order is confirmed
Output per shift is known only once a supervisor totals it by hand
Machines report their own output while the shift is still running
Four hours a day retyping numbers from paper, from chat, from email
One scan, and the data enters the system where the work happens
Knowing real stock still means phoning down to the warehouse
Live stock levels, with a warning when an item drops below minimum
Tracing one batch takes two days of searching through shift books
Finished item back to its raw material batch in a single lookup
Three departments, three spreadsheets, three different numbers
Every department reads the same source
Someone resigns, and part of the process leaves with them
How the work is done lives in the system; a successor can pick it up
“Your plant is not short of data. The data is scattered in places you cannot reach at the moment you need it.”
Chapter 02
Plainly
And the things nobody says out loud in a first meeting
We have sat through enough of these to know these questions are always in the room, even when no one asks them. So we answer first.
“What if the new system fails in the middle of peak season?”
Run in parallel; there is no cut-over day
We run in parallel. The old system and the old way of working are not switched off until you say they can be. There is no single cut-over day — that day is the riskiest one there is.
“I have paid a lot for software before and it went unused.”
Delivered in pieces; stop whenever you like
We hand over in pieces that are usable immediately, not one large block a year from now. If the first phase does not produce value you can see, you are free to stop there — and you keep everything already delivered.
“My floor staff and my older accountants — can they actually use this?”
Making it easy is our job, not theirs
If someone needs three days of training to enter one order, that is our design failure, not their shortcoming. We sit next to real users through the first week of operation and keep adjusting until it feels natural in their hands.
“Am I going to be locked in to you?”
The code and the data are yours
The source code, the data and the operating documentation are yours, written into the first contract. We train your internal team alongside us. The goal is that you can carry on without us, not that you must keep calling.
“I am not technical. How do I know I am being advised honestly?”
Always priced against the do-nothing option
Every proposal we make comes with the do-nothing option and its real cost beside it. You do not need to understand the technology to compare two numbers and a date. You decide; we execute.
“Is my customer data, my formulas, my cost base safe?”
Confidentiality signed before we see a record
The confidentiality agreement is signed before we see the first record. The system can sit entirely on your own infrastructure if you prefer. Access is role-based, and every access leaves a trace.
If there is a question we have not answered here, that is precisely the one worth bringing to the table.
Chapter 03
How we work
Four steps, taken in this order
These are not four separate products. They are four stages of one journey — and most clients begin with the first, which takes only a few weeks.
Understand
01
Consulting and a transformation roadmap
We come to you, walk a shift, sit with the accountants and the floor supervisors. What comes out is not a sales proposal but a map of how your business actually runs — with an order of operations, and an honest note about what is best left alone.
On-site assessment, not a questionnaire
Process map and bottlenecks, written in your language
A phased roadmap with cost and timing for each phase
The do-nothing option and what it costs you
You get: a document you can read and use, even if you never hire us.
Build
02
Software shaped around how you operate
Your business has processes that are unlike anyone else's, and that is usually where the advantage lives. We do not ask you to bend to a packaged product. We build what your company actually does — production, warehouse, orders, receivables, portals for customers and suppliers.
Internal operations: production, warehouse, orders, receivables
Portals for customers, distributors and suppliers
Field applications that keep working when the connection drops
Delivered in usable pieces, not held back for one final release
You get: the first piece running for real in one department, usually within 8–12 weeks.
Connect
03
Legacy migration and integration
Most plants do not start from zero — they start from twenty years of data in spreadsheets and shift books, an accounting package nobody supports any more, and a floor full of machines that cannot yet talk to each other. The hard part is not building the new thing. It is crossing over to it while the line keeps running.
Connecting the PLCs, scales, readers and sensors already on the floor
Historical data cleaned and migrated, reconciled at every step
Integration with accounting, e-invoicing, banks and marketplaces
Old and new running side by side until the numbers agree
You get: not one day of stopped production, and a safe stopping point at every step.
See
04
Real-time data, automatic reporting, and AI that earns its place
Once the data is clean and flowing to the right places, what you need is simple: one screen showing revenue, inventory, receivables and asset value as they stand right now. Not last month's figures. This minute's. After that — and only after that — AI becomes meaningful: demand forecasting, receivables alerts, documents read automatically.
A real-time dashboard: revenue, inventory, receivables and cash flow on one screen
Inventory updated in real time from warehouse scans, not from an end-of-period count
Total company value — assets, inventory, receivables, payables — recalculated on every movement
Automatic reports delivered each morning, replacing manual monthly reporting
Instant alerts: receivables about to fall due, stock below reorder point, orders running late
AI for document reading, demand forecasting, and questions asked of your own data
You get: the answer before you can go and ask for it — updated by the minute, not by the month.
Connecting the plant
A factory's transformation starts on the floor, not in the accounts office
Most software vendors stop at the data-entry screen. We go down to the machine: reading signals from the PLCs, scales, readers and sensors you already run, and carrying them up into the system. Numbers nobody had to retype are the only ones that are both true and timely.
Layer 01
Layer 01
Machines and devices on the floor
We work with the equipment you already have before proposing anything new. Where an older machine has no data port, we add a sensor or a counter.
PLCs & CNC machines
Platform and truck scales
Temperature · pressure · flow sensors
Electricity & water meters
Quality-inspection cameras
Layer 02
Layer 02
Collection and transport
A collector on the plant floor reads the signals over industrial protocols and forwards them. If the network drops it keeps recording locally and syncs when the link returns.
IoT gateway
OPC UA · Modbus · MQTT
Barcode & QR scanners
RFID readers
Label printers
Layer 03
Layer 03
Operating systems
Work orders, inventory, quality and sales sit in one place, connected onward to the accounting package you already use.
Production control (MES)
Warehouse management (WMS)
Batch traceability
Equipment maintenance
Accounting integration
Layer 04
Layer 04
The person deciding
Finally, the part you actually needed: open your phone in the morning and know how the plant ran overnight.
An owner's dashboard
Downtime and late-order alerts
Automatic per-shift reporting
OEE by production line
Devices we commonly connect
Barcode & QR scanners
Goods in, goods out, stage tracking
RFID readers
Fast stock counts, pallet and mould tracking
Platform & truck scales
Weights recorded automatically, never copied
IoT sensors
Temperature, humidity, pressure, cycle counts
Quality-inspection cameras
Surface defects caught on the line
Label printers
Batch and pallet labels printed at the station
PLC & SCADA
Machine state, downtime, output
Shop-floor terminals
Rugged screens and scanners for operators
We do not replace machinery that works. We connect first, and only propose new equipment when there is genuinely no cheaper route.
Real time
Open your phone at seven in the morning and know exactly where the business stands
This is the change owners notice most. Every figure below updates at the moment it happens — from the scanner on the warehouse floor, from the order just confirmed, from the receipt just signed — rather than being assembled by hand on the fifth of the following month.
Inventory value
1,284 SKUs · 3 below reorder point
$984K
Receivables due this week
7 customers · 2 already overdue
$128K
Total company value
Assets + inventory + receivables − payables
$7.45M
Live
Updated just now
Revenue today
$73.9K
+12.4% vs. same day last week
Revenue, 12 months (USD)
Updated the moment an order is confirmed
$3.7M
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Inventory health
82%
within target
Within target
1,052 SKUs
Below minimum
3 SKUs
Slow moving
229 SKUs
Receivables by age
$504K
Not yet due
$331K
1–30 days overdue
$126K
Over 30 days overdue
$47K
The data flowing in
420 cartons received · SKU SP-1174
Binh Duong warehouse
+$7,300
Minh Phat confirmed order #48210
Order
+$3,640
Cash received against invoice HD-3391
Receipt
+$1,770
Chapter 04
The plan
What the first 90 days look like
Not a two-year programme before anything is visible. This is our actual rhythm in the first quarter.
Weeks 1–2
Weeks 1–2
We come to you
A walk through the plant or the office, time with accounting, supervisors, sales. Listening far more than talking.
Weeks 3–4
Weeks 3–4
The map and the roadmap
We hand your own operation back to you in words and diagrams, with priorities and phase costs. This is the first stopping point — and stopping here is a perfectly good outcome.
Weeks 5–10
Weeks 5–10
Build the first piece
Pick the single most painful bottleneck and solve it. You see progress weekly and can touch the product, not just read a status report.
Weeks 11–12
Weeks 11–12
One department goes live
We sit beside the users through the first days and fix things on the spot. The old system stays available until you are comfortable.
Month 4 onward
Month 4 onward
Scale at your pace
The next department, the next process. How fast is your decision, not the contract's.
Selected work
Systems we have built
Every project starts from one specific bottleneck rather than from an all-inclusive proposal. Below is how we intend to present the work once it is cleared for publication.
Manufacturing & processing
Production control and batch traceability
Shift notebooks replaced by electronic work orders, scanning at each station, and the ability to trace any finished item back to its raw material batch.
10
weeks to running for real
0
days of stopped production
Distribution & wholesale
Warehouses, orders and distributor credit
One system across three warehouses, a dedicated ordering portal for distributors, and credit warnings before the due date instead of a month-end reconciliation.
3
warehouses on one system
1
ordering portal for distributors
Construction & materials
Connecting a legacy accounting package
The accounting package that already worked was kept, with an integration layer and dashboard built on top, and twelve years of history migrated with reconciliation at every step.
12
years of data migrated
1
dashboard for the whole business
The numbers
What we hold ourselves to
8–12
weeks
until the first piece runs for real
0
days
of stopped production during migration
100%
of the source code and data is yours
2
weeks
we sit beside your users at go-live
“What I valued most was not the software. It was the first time anyone was willing to walk a full production shift with us before proposing anything at all.”
Managing Director
Manufacturing company, Binh Duong
Questions
The ones we are asked most
Yes, and it is our most common situation. In the early phases ANT carries the technical side; in parallel we help you identify one or two internal people to hand over to gradually. You do not need to hire a whole IT team just to begin.
The assessment and roadmap phase is a fixed, contained fee you know in advance. Later phases are quoted piece by piece and you approve each one. We will not give you a number before we understand your business — that number would be a guess.
No. In most cases what already works should be kept and connected to, rather than replaced. We only propose replacement when the cost of keeping the old system exceeds the cost of moving — and we will show you that arithmetic.
There is a monthly maintenance and support package with clear response commitments. But you are not obliged to sign it: the code and documentation are already yours, and your team has been trained to run it.
Yes. We are based in District 3, HCMC and regularly work at client sites in Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Long An and the northern provinces. The assessment phase is always carried out in person, where the work actually happens.
Next step
Start with a conversation, not a contract
Thirty minutes, at your office or over coffee. You tell us where it hurts most. We tell you plainly what technology can fix and what it cannot. If this is not the right moment, we will say so.
No company introduction deck
No quote at the table
No follow-up calls if you tell us not yet
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