Paying for uptime,
blind to downtime?
The cost-down is signed and the losses that would pay for it are invisible. Visual Factories connects any machine in days, measures the real OEE, and runs the method that turns the losses into output. 14 days to visibility. 4–12 weeks to more output, same floor. We carry the risk.
The cost-down is signed. The losses that pay for it are invisible.
A Tier-1 or Tier-2 plant lives between an OEM price that only moves down and a floor whose real OEE nobody measures. The margin is decided in operations — the one link of the value chain that is yours — and operations is run on end-of-shift reports and memory.
Overtime and extra shifts cover hidden losses
The order ships because people stayed. Micro-stops, slow cycles and changeovers that nobody counted are paid for in Saturdays.
Launch ramps and OEM escalations
A new program ramps on the weakest cell. The OEM finds out from a late delivery; you find out from the OEM.
Improvement projects that fade
A kaizen week finds the losses; three months later the Pareto is back where it was, because findings never became anyone's task.
Five stages from first signal to 20% more output.
Visual Factories' operating discipline for turning machine data into profit. A small IoT device on each machine's electrical signals — installed by your electrician in under an hour, no PLC connection, no IT project — gives live OEE from day one. The Method does the rest, and the engagement it asks of your people grows only as the results do.
It's not software you watch — it's a method you run, and we're paid only when it works.
Four more products your floor can run — no second project.
Once the machines are connected, every other Visual Factories product runs on the same live data. Add the ones that match your processes; nothing else to install.
Scheduling & Dispatching
Replace the whiteboard. Live machine timeline, unassigned-task list, ERP gateway or CSV upload, daily PDF reports.
Read more 04CNC Programs — Upload & Download
Manage, version and transfer programs to any CNC control — including legacy machines — from one place, with a full audit trail.
Read more 05Cutting Tools — Tool Life & Cost per Part
Replace tools on time, avoid scrap, protect machine health, manage inventory — and buy on cost per part, not tool price.
Read more 07Condition-Based Maintenance
Maintenance triggered by real machine condition — MTBF/MTTR, downtime reasons, consumables — turned into tasks. Complements your CMMS.
Read moreOne connection per machine, whatever the process.
The electrical signals are the same on a 1998 press and a 2024 machining centre — running, stopped, cycle, count. What differs is the machine, the process, the product and the environment; the Universal Adapter interprets the same signals with the context of that specific machine.
Three cells at one Tier-1 automotive supplier. Same method.
Three different processes. Baseline measured Nov 2025 – Jan 2026; improvement measured April 2026; verified on production data.
13-machine cell, Plant 1
4-machine injection cell
2-machine end-of-line cell
Increasing revenue, cutting costs, and reducing overtime
- +27%OEE
- +23%production per day
- −63%overtime hours
- −68%defect parts per million
Your KPIs are already covered. The Method improves them.
OEMs that run Supplier KPI Automation with Visual Factories read your OEE, MTBF, MTTR and days on hand straight from your MES / ERP — no monthly spreadsheet. Running the Floor-to-Profit Method on the same connection is how you make the numbers you report go up.
Pick the cell that's gating your output.
We connect it, measure the real baseline, and put the losses in front of your team with a plan — or you don't pay.