Digital Performance Monitoring for real factories
Visual Factories exists for a simple reason: most plants cannot see what their machines are doing right now. We make that visible without new machinery, new operators' paperwork or a multi-year IT programme.
DESIGNED BY MANUFACTURERS FOR MANUFACTURERS
Visual Factories was founded by people who lived on the shop floor. The platform is built around the realities of real production, mixed fleets, ageing equipment, shift changes and the pressure to ship today, not an idealised view of a connected factory.
Production data, collected automatically
The platform continuously captures machine activity and turns it into real-time monitoring, analysis and reporting: machine state, production pace, capacity per part and per machine, downtime and overall performance, per line, per machine and per product.
Operators see whether they are on target. Production managers see where the line is losing time. Executives compare plants on the same measurements. Everyone works from the same numbers, generated by the machines rather than assembled by hand.
The principles behind the product
Out of the box
Quick to install on any machine, plug and play, and usable within hours rather than quarters.
No manual data entry
Data comes from machine activity itself, so operators are not asked to report on their own work.
Works with what you have
Mixed fleets, older equipment and machines without a usable PLC API are all in scope.
Start at any scale
One machine or one hundred, the package is built around the plant, and rollout can be gradual.
Cloud-based
Compare lines, machines, products and shifts from any workstation, anywhere.
Supported end to end
From the first machine connection through to factory-wide visibility.
In the words of the people running the floor.
“Visual Factories simplicity and compatibility enabled us to connect all our machines on our own, and start monitor & analyze our performance in a matter of days.”
“We wanted a more trustworthy and real-time method to follow up on a production in our plant. With the Visual Factories solution, we are now able to identify weak links in our production which allows us to solve problems and increase productivity.”
“VF is the best investment I did in my 25 years in manufacturing.”
“Spent the afternoon with my team at FabTech. One of the biggest issues I see across suppliers is inability to address O.E.E. To get the data in a factory is pretty challenging unless you have expensive software, and even using the data to drive out waste is tough. Visual Factories has got it figured out. Blown away by the no nonsense solution. Aerospace friends, look these guys up.”
“We were amazed by Visual Factories… from saying 'Yes' to a working POC in <1 week!”
