Solution
Production Monitoring
Track real-time production activity across every line and machine by connecting live machine states, shift context, job assignments, production counts, and downtime events — giving operators, supervisors, and plant managers a single, accurate view of what is happening on the shopfloor right now.
Business challenge
Production visibility in most factories depends on manual logs, end-of-shift reports, and delayed data entry — all of which arrive too late to change outcomes in the current shift. Operators record production counts on paper or in spreadsheets after the fact. Supervisors walk the floor to understand line status rather than having structured data available. Plant managers review yesterday's performance while today's problems compound undetected. When a line slows or stops, the time between the event and the informed response is too long — because no structured system connects the machine event to the right person with the right context. Jobs, batches, operators, and machine states exist in separate systems with no unified operational view.
Factobrain solution pattern
Factobrain captures live machine states — RUN, PREPARATION, STOP, OFFLINE — from connected assets in real time, and presents them through structured dashboards organized around your actual production hierarchy: Unit, Department, Line, Machine. Every machine's current status is always visible, with context attached — which shift is running, which operator is active, which job and batch are in progress, and how production count compares to the expected output for this point in the shift. Downtime events are logged the moment a machine stops, with reason categorization available directly from the interface. Production count data is entered against the current job and shift, creating a structured record of output that feeds into OEE, shift reports, and job completion tracking. Drilldowns from the line-level view to individual machines and events make root-cause investigation fast and focused.
ROI signals to monitor
- Real-time visibility into line performance, machine status, and shift output — without manual data collection
- Faster response to stoppages because supervisors see machine state changes the moment they occur
- Production count, downtime, and job context captured together — creating a complete record for each shift
- Improved shift handover quality because outgoing supervisors pass structured data, not verbal summaries
- Plant managers can monitor multiple lines simultaneously without physically walking the shopfloor
- Consistent reporting across shifts and lines because data is captured in a standardized system, not on paper
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