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For automotive component manufacturers, Tier 1 and Tier 2

You signed the cost-down.
Now you have to pay for it.

The losses that would pay for it are in your plant, but nobody sees them. Visual Factories connects any machine in days, measures your real OEE and gives you the method that turns those losses into output. 14 Days to Visibility. More output in 4–12 weeks. We carry the risk.

Row of presses at a Tier-1 automotive supplier with Visual Factories monitoring
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The problem

Your OEM cuts the price. Your plant loses margin and nobody sees it.

A Tier-1 or Tier-2 plant lives between a price that only moves down and an operation run on end-of-shift reports and memory. The margin is decided in operations — the only part that is yours.

01

Saturdays pay for what nobody measured.

The order ships because people stayed. Micro-stops, slow cycles and changeovers are paid for in overtime.

02

Your customer finds out before you do.

A new program ramps on the weakest cell. The OEM finds out from a late delivery; you find out from the OEM.

03

The kaizen is forgotten in three months.

A kaizen week finds the losses; three months later the Pareto is back where it was, because findings never became anyone's task.

OEE optimization isn't nice-to-have for a component plant. It's survival.
The Floor-to-Profit Method

Five stages from first signal to 20% more OEE.

Visual Factories' operating discipline for turning machine data into profit. A small IoT device reads each machine's electrical signals. Your electrician installs it in under an hour, with no PLC connection and no IT project, and from day one you see your OEE live. The Method does the rest, and it asks more of your people's time only once the results are there.

01VisibilityLive uptime, downtime and throughput from day one
02EmpowerYour people see the live target and self-correct
03AnalyzeFull OEE root-cause on the top offenders
04ActFindings become assigned tasks; an executive keeps it moving
05ImproveA measured 20% OEE gain in 4–12 weeks

It's not software you watch — it's a method you run, and we're paid only when it works.

Production managers reviewing Visual Factories OEE data on a tablet
Every automotive process

One 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.

Injection moldingStamping & pressesCNC machiningAssembly, inspection & end-of-lineProgram launches & rampsMaintenance
Measured results

Three cells at one Tier-1 automotive supplier in Mexico. Same method.

Three different processes. Baseline measured Nov 2025 – Jan 2026; improvement measured April 2026; verified on production data.

49% →
62% OEE

13-machine cell, Plant 1

48% →
83% OEE

4-machine injection cell

59% →
82% OEE

2-machine end-of-line cell

Deburring cell with Visual Factories shop-floor screen
Same machines, same people, more outputThe losses were already in your plant. The Method made them visible — and gave each one an owner.
Case study — Tier-1 automotive supplier
Case study · Tier-1 automotive supplier

+23% output, one shift fewer and 63% less overtime

  • +27%OEE
  • +23%production per day
  • −63%overtime hours
  • −68%defect parts per million
Read the case study PDF · free download
Does your OEM already use Visual Factories?

Your KPIs report themselves. 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.

How OEMs use Visual Factories →

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.

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