Watch every machine on one live board and get an alert before the line stops.
Somebody walks the floor to find out which machine is down, and the owner refreshes a report to see today's orders. A live board on your operational data shows every machine on the floor, orders today, late deliveries and the cash position, on a screen in the office and on a phone, with a message to your inbox or chat the moment a number crosses the line you set.
- Live boards on the operational data, refreshed every few seconds
- Alerts to chat, email or SMS, with the reading in them
- The same board watches the systems themselves
Know which machine is running, which is idle and which is about to scrap a part, without walking the floor.
When a press runs hot, the first sign is usually the scrapped part. On one board each machine shows running, idle or down along a timeline, parts per hour against the plan, downtime for the day and the equipment effectiveness for the shift, with a gauge on the spindle temperature. The board refreshes itself every few seconds, and when the gauge climbs into the red the alert fires with the reading in it, while there is still time to act.
- Machine states and parts per hour, straight from the floor
- Downtime and effectiveness per machine for the shift
- A gauge that goes red before the part does
- History kept, so a bad hour can be looked at the next day
Set the line once, and the right person hears about it the moment a number crosses it.
A report nobody has opened cannot warn anyone. An alert rule sits on any number on the board: a machine down for more than ten minutes, a queue of blocked work orders, a delivery past its date, cash under a floor. When it crosses the line, a message goes to the team chat, an inbox, a text message or the on-call phone, with the figure and a link to the board, and goes again when it recovers. Quiet hours, who is on call and how long a reading must stay bad before anyone is woken are all yours to set.
- An alert on any number: machines, orders, deliveries, cash
- Delivered to chat, email, SMS or the on-call phone
- How long a reading must stay bad before it fires
- Marked on the chart, so the history shows when it happened
Readings come off the machine and into the record on their own, so the board shows what the floor is doing rather than what someone typed.
A counter on a clipboard is an hour old by the time it is typed in. A small collector on the floor reads the counters, the temperatures and the machine states, a device bridge reads the caliper, the scale and the scanner, and the readings land in the inspection or the work order as well as on the board. Output and orders sit on the same chart, so a slow hour can be matched to the job that was running.
- Counters, temperatures and states read from the machine
- A caliper or a scale filling in the inspection
- Output and orders on the same chart
- Readings kept with the record they belong to
Feed the board straight from the systems you already run, with no exports in between.
A live board is only as good as what feeds it. Orders, deliveries, work orders and bank lines come straight from the system of record, entered once on the tablet at the work centre or the phone at the dock; machine data comes through the collector; the rest comes through webhooks and scheduled jobs. Every feed is monitored, so a feed that goes quiet is itself an alert rather than a board that quietly shows yesterday.
- Business data read directly, nothing exported
- Records entered once, where the work happens
- Webhooks and scheduled jobs for everything else
- A feed that goes quiet raises its own alert
What it is for
The questions that cannot wait for the report.
The operations board
Open orders, late shipments, blocked work orders, stock at risk and cash position, on a screen where the team can see it.
Alerts
A delivery late, a queue growing, cash under a floor, a machine stopped: a message to the right person, with the figure in it.
Machines and sensors
Sensor and counter data from the floor beside the business data, so output and orders are on the same chart.
The systems themselves
Uptime, errors, backups and queues for the business system and the apps around it. We watch the same board for you.
The owner's phone
The board that is on the wall is on the owner's phone too, with the same alerts.
Business intelligence
The live board answers the hour and the dashboards answer the month, and both read the same data.
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Business intelligence
Dashboards on one set of numbers everyone agrees on.
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Calipers, scales and scanners writing straight into the record.
See connected devicesManufacturing
The bill of materials knows the lead time; the ship date is calculated.
See manufacturingBusiness intelligence
Live views for the floor, weekly summaries for the owner, from the same numbers.
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