See your supply chain
the way you see
your own plants.
Supplier KPI Automation reads OEE, MTBF, MTTR and days on hand from each supplier's MES / ERP and delivers them to you live. When a number needs a reason, the same platform connects the supplier's critical cells in days — and tracks the molds you own at their sites. No spreadsheets. No hardware. Nothing the supplier has to build.
A ramp is only as fast as its least visible supplier.
You audit suppliers, score suppliers, visit suppliers. What you cannot do today is see a supplier's site running — until the parts are late. The KPIs you ask for arrive as hundreds of spreadsheets, weeks old, each computed its own way.
Five KPIs, hundreds of spreadsheets
Every supplier re-types OEE, MTBF, MTTR and days on hand from its MES / ERP into Excel. You consolidate, chase and question. By the time a number is read, it is weeks old.
300 ways to calculate one KPI
Every supplier computes OEE its own way. The numbers sit in one table but do not compare — ranking and trends are guesswork dressed as data.
The risk signal comes too late
Days on hand is the early warning for a line stop at your plant. Read monthly, it warns after the fact; a spreadsheet cell cannot be opened to see why.
KPI automation first. Visibility when a number needs a reason.
Two layers on one platform. Start with the KPIs every supplier already owes you; go to the machine level only where the KPI says so.
Supplier KPI Automation
The supplier installs a read-only VF Client on its own server. The platform reads the agreed views of its MES / ERP and computes the five KPIs with one definition for every supplier, delivered live through the VF Dashboard, reports, alerts and the Unified View API.
- OEE and finished-goods / raw-materials days on hand at site level
- MTBF and MTTR per end-of-line, rolled up to the site
- Secured: read-only, supplier-installed, outbound only, revocable by the supplier
- A site is live about ten days after the supplier's approval; sites connect in parallel
Supply-chain visibility at machine level
Where a KPI flags a site — or where a supplier has no MES to read — the critical cells that make your parts connect in days through the electrical signals every machine already has. The supplier's electrician installs the device; no IT project on either side.
- Live uptime, downtime and throughput of the nominated cells
- The reason behind each loss, from the floor, not composed afterwards
- The supplier runs the Floor-to-Profit Method on the same connection — you watch the constraint move
Your molds at their sites.
Molds — Tracking & Monitoring
Every mold located. Every shot counted. OEM-owned tooling moves between suppliers, warehouses and repair; its tool life lives in spreadsheets. Each mold reports its own location and the machine counts update its tool life — across plants and suppliers.
Read more +One unified view of your own plants
Because Visual Factories is self-installed and machine-agnostic, a multinational gets the same live view across all its plants worldwide — the sister proposition to supply-chain visibility, on the same platform.
Industries · multi-plantTen sites, ten days each, in parallel.
Nominate the suppliers and obtain each one's approval for read-only access. Confirm the KPI definitions once, for everyone. A pilot wave of 10 to 20 sites is live in less than a month from the approvals — no development, no hardware, no site visit.
Retire the spreadsheet.
A 30-minute briefing: your supplier list, your KPI definitions, and how fast a pilot wave of 10 to 20 sites goes live.