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The plant exists twice: on the floor and on screen

The system you run a plant with, built like the plant: every machine, every work order and every scrap piece has its place and its record. It isn't a dashboard watching from outside; it's where the work happens. Scroll down and drag a whole shift.

The shift runs well and records badly

On the floor everyone knows what happened: the press was down forty minutes, that batch came out needing rework, nine pieces went to the scale. By the time any of it reaches a system —if it does— it's a round number typed by someone who wasn't there.

So you end up with two truths: the floor's and the report's. When they disagree, the written one wins, and next month's decisions rest on it. Nobody bought bad software. They bought software that found out late.

Planta Norte · demo

This shift already happened. Drag it.

Eight hours of a metalworking plant, compressed. Drag the shift line to any moment, click a machine to see what it had in hand, and watch the two counters: what stock on hand says it holds, and what it really holds.

Planta Norte demo · fictional data

07:008 h shift

Bringing the plant up…

in stock, per the entries
per the count
0both figures come from the same record

The plant

Click a machine to see what it answers for

Delivered
Scrap
In stock
Work orders
3

Latest entries

    None of this was keyed in by hand. Every figure —the OEE, the scrap, the pieces, what's left in stock— comes from the entries the shift left behind, which is why you can rewind it and everything still adds up. A video can't rewind like this; you only skip its frames. Here it recalculates.

    What ends up on the record

    • Every work orderits progress, its station and the part that came off it
    • Every stoppagewith its time, its length and its cause, not as a gap in a chart
    • Every scrap and every reworkat the station where it happened, not at month end
    • OEE per machinecomputed from its three factors, not typed in by hand
    • Inventory from entriesit follows from what happened; there are no two figures to reconcile
    • Part genealogywhich heat it came from and who it shipped to: that's the next layer, and it goes in once the record is there

    What we can build

    What a plant gets built

    On the floor

    Shop floor
    Work orders, stations and where every part stands. Downtime with its hour and its cause, not as a gap in a chart. OEE calculated, not typed in.
    Maintenance
    Preventive by machine hours instead of by calendar, corrective with its history, and spare parts with a minimum that trips before you run out.
    Quality
    Inspection plans, non-conformities with their corrective action, and the certificate your customer asks for pulled from the record instead of written by hand.

    In the numbers

    Inventory from entries
    What you have is deduced from what happened: every issue, every receipt, every piece of scrap. No two figures to reconcile, no Sunday count.
    Cost per part
    Material, machine hours and real scrap. So you quote with the plant's numbers instead of whatever the estimator remembers.
    Purchasing
    Requisition, order, receipt against that order. And every supplier with a delivery record, which is what decides the next order.

    Facing out

    Part traceability
    Which heat it came from, which stations it passed, who it shipped to. The day a claim arrives, the answer is already there.
    Shipping
    Dock, packing list, waybill and proof of delivery, out of the same record that made the part.
    Customer portal
    Let them see their order's progress, their certificates and their shipments without calling anyone.

    And what almost always goes around it: connecting to what's already there — ERP, scales, scanners, tax stamping —, screens on the floor for the operator, and reports that write themselves.

    None of this is a catalog module

    Off-the-shelf systems serve an average company that doesn't exist: you pay for modules nobody opens and you bend the operation to the software instead of the other way around.

    A plant has its own way of counting inventory, its own way of moving a part, and its own reports. Custom work starts there, not from a feature list.

    7 to 14 weeks
    From scope to delivery, on committed dates.

    How we work

    All of this comes
    from one place.

    A plant doesn't need six vendors blaming each other. The system, the model of the building, the server, the reports and everything you see above come from the same team, and there's one person to call when something breaks.

    1. DesignIdentity, grid, type.
    2. EngineeringThe system on the inside.
    3. 3D and motionWhat you touch and what moves.
    4. InfrastructureWhere it lives and how it holds.
    5. DataReports that write themselves.
    6. OperationsAfter delivery.

    One system, one owner.

    Tell us what doesn't add up at shift close

    The form builds a live brief: what you type is, word for word, what reaches us.