IoT and shop floor
See what your machines and your stock are doing, live.
Most production managers find out about a problem when someone walks over and tells them. By then it has been happening for two hours.
Connecting the shop floor changes that. Sensors on machines, scanners at goods-in, and screens in the office showing what is actually running right now rather than what the plan said this morning.
How we approach it
We start with one question that has a cost attached to it. How much did that line run yesterday? Where is that pallet? Which job is late? Then we instrument the smallest thing that answers it, put the answer on a screen people already look at, and expand only once it is earning.
We handle the whole chain: the sensors and controllers, the software that collects the readings, and the link back into your ERP so that the shop floor and the order book finally agree with each other.
What you get
Live visibility of production and stock, alerts before a problem becomes a shortage, and numbers you can plan with.
Questions we get asked
- Our machines are old. Can they be monitored?
- Usually yes. Plenty of machines with no network port at all can be monitored by watching their outputs with external sensors. We have done this on equipment older than some of the people operating it.
- Do we need to put anything in the cloud?
- Not necessarily. Where a site has poor connectivity or a strict security policy, we keep the data on site and send out only summaries.