# ER Labs

## What It Is
ER Labs is the lightweight industrial intelligence layer associated with Starosta Industrial and Yuval Starosta Labs.

## Why It Matters
ER Labs provides a practical path from raw factory signals to operational visibility, anomaly detection, structured KPIs, and decision support without requiring a heavy enterprise stack.

## Core Variables
- PLC tags
- CSV and historian exports
- feeder rates
- torque and power
- pressure and temperature
- alarm events
- run context
- operator notes

## Typical Industrial Problems
- fragmented data sources
- poor visibility into line instability
- missing run context
- unclear operational baselines
- weak connection between process symptoms and diagnosis

## Engineering Approach
ER Labs should sit beside the process, not above it as a disconnected software layer. Its role is to help production and engineering teams understand line behavior in a structured and usable way.

## Related Docs
- [./industrial-intelligence.md](./industrial-intelligence.md)
- [./system-architecture.md](./system-architecture.md)
- [./extrusion-intelligence-system.md](./extrusion-intelligence-system.md)