Foundry · Other assets
Melting and moulding get watched because they make the castings. The cranes, pumps, compressors and extraction that keep them running are the assets nobody reports on until one of them stops the line — and then the loss is booked against the process, not the auxiliary that actually caused it. Munshi monitors them on exactly the same footing: machine signals joined to operator reports, per asset.
Your ERP logs the breakdown against the moulding line.
It won't tell you the crane that feeds it had been drawing abnormally for a week.
Why the gap existsWhat the auxiliaries hide
EOT cranes, conveyors and hoists. A crane that stalls or slows doesn’t make scrap — it makes the furnace hold and the moulding line wait, and that time books against melting and moulding, never against the crane.
Heavy-duty cooling and transfer pumps. Abnormal current draw shows as a reading long before it shows as a seizure, and Munshi flags it while it is still a maintenance job rather than a line stoppage.
Compressors run continuously and leak quietly. Consumption that climbs for the same output is a cost that never appears on any casting’s sheet — until you look at the compressor on its own.
Cooling towers, DG sets, dust and fume extraction. Statutory and continuous, rarely watched, and a real slice of the energy bill. Munshi treats them as assets like any other.
The point is attribution. A loss caused by an auxiliary and booked against the process is a loss you will keep paying for, because you are looking in the wrong place for the cause. Monitoring the auxiliaries as first-class assets is what lets the reason land where it belongs.
Bring the asset nobody watches.
The auxiliary you suspect is quietly costing you is usually the one worth wiring first.