Smarter systems for the people who make things.
Vantage Pro Analytics builds modern, connected software for small and mid-sized manufacturers, and works alongside the teams adopting it. Your documents, your data, your processes. Working systems, not science projects.
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Describe your plant, pick the modules it uses, and build it in a click.
ERP, MES, QC and maintenance, generated around your plant.
Software that runs on your knowledge.
Ask questions across every binder, batch record and spec you keep, cited to the page. Then let those documents become the system you run on.
RetortHQ
The operating system for your plant
A full ERP, MES, QC and maintenance system, generated around how your plant actually runs. Build your own apps, BI dashboards and agent workflows on the same records, and ask questions across all of it, the binder from 1998 included, cited to the page.
Try it on your own file: see what RetortHQ would build from it
Your file is read once to write this preview. We don't store it.
SDS Sentinel
Safety data sheets, always current
Hands-off monitoring that keeps your SDS library up to date and audit-ready, so compliance stops being a quarterly scramble.
SDS LIBRARY
VPA Platform
Where it started
Our original ERP, MES, QC, and analytics suite for batch manufacturers. Its lessons live on in everything we build.
Enterprise Resource Planning
Items, BOMs, purchasing, inventory, orders and shipping, all connected.
One system, built around your plant.
Describe the operation and RetortHQ generates a full ERP, MES, QC and maintenance system. Then bring in your data, scan inventory on the floor, build your own apps and dashboards, put agents to work, and connect your own systems, all on the same records. Ask is one feature on top.
RetortHQ · Build your systemTell us about your operation
✦ Describe your plant and we'll recommend
Illustrative playback of RetortHQ, sample data. See it on your own data →
WHAT WE BELIEVE
The plants that made everything deserve software built this decade.
Decades of batch records, formulas, specs, and tribal know-how are worth more than any software license. The job of good software is to make that knowledge searchable, citable, and usable, not to replace it.
Hands-on help, fixed scope, no bench.
We take one engagement at a time, manufacturing only, and everything we do ends inside working software you keep. If your plant needs it, from a spreadsheet cleanup to an AI agent, we can help.
A structured look at your documents, data, and workflows, ending in a prioritized roadmap of where AI pays back first in your plant. You keep the roadmap either way.
A clear look at the AI tools you already run or are evaluating: where they help, where they fall short, and what they need before they belong on a plant floor.
We stand up RetortHQ on your documents, run representative work through it with your team, and measure the result against a metric agreed up front.
We design, configure, and tune AI agents for real plant work, like document answers, batch record review, and maintenance lookups, connected to the systems you already use.
Integrations, data pipelines, and internal tools shaped around how your plant already runs, delivered as working software you keep.
Fifteen years of manufacturing systems architecture on call for your integration, data, and AI decisions. Advice from someone who has run plant systems, not read about them.
Built by people who've run plant systems.
Vantage Pro Analytics was founded in Minnesota by a manufacturing systems architect with 15 years inside chemical manufacturing, building and running ERP, MES, and quality systems across multiple plants. Behind that is a team with decades of its own experience: controls and automation engineering, MES and QC rollouts across multiple sites, ERP implementation and training, logistics, and customer operations. VPA exists because the software small manufacturers deserve was never going to come from the enterprise vendors.
What we believe, in practice.
Four rules that decide what we build, and what we refuse to.
Your knowledge is the asset.
Decades of batch records, formulas, specs, and tribal know-how are worth more than any software license. The job of good software is to make that knowledge searchable, citable, and usable, not to replace it.
Systems should meet you where you are.
Your plant runs the way it does for good reasons. We start from your documents and your process, not a template. Where an industry best practice would genuinely help, we'll show you the option, and you decide.
Answers need receipts.
A system that can't cite the document and page it answered from doesn't belong on a plant floor. Every answer in our products shows its source, and says plainly when it doesn't know.
Right-sized beats enterprise-sized.
A 50-person shop should not need a seven-figure implementation and an 18-month timeline to get modern operations software. Days to value, priced like a tool, not a transformation.
One connected system.
Across ERP, QMS, MES and EAM. Turn on only what you run.
Generated from your own documents, already wired together.
A lot links to its formula, its spec, its COA and its order.
Start small, scale on proof.
Every engagement is fixed scope and ends inside working software you keep. Drag to see where you might start.
AI Readiness Assessment
Fixed fee, two weeksA structured look at your documents, data, and workflows, ending in a prioritized roadmap of where AI pays back first in your plant. You keep the roadmap either way.