Manufacturing
The work is on the floor. The data is on the machines. Most floors never join the two.
For Australian manufacturers running production lines where unplanned downtime is the difference between a profitable quarter and an awkward call to the customer. We have shipped sensor-driven maintenance prediction on real factory equipment.
What we hear on the floor
- -Calendar-based preventative maintenance replaces parts with useful life left and still misses the failures that matter
- -Vibration, temperature, and motor-current data lives on the PLC and never reaches the maintenance team
- -A single floor engineer holds all the institutional knowledge about which machines drift first
- -Internet on the factory floor is unreliable - anything cloud-only is a single outage away from useless
- -The MES vendor wants six figures a year for a module that does not understand your equipment