See your suppliers
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.
Your launch depends on the supplier you can't see.
You audit, score and visit your suppliers. What you cannot do is see them running — until the parts are late. The KPIs arrive as hundreds of spreadsheets, weeks old, each calculated 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 — any ranking or trend is a guess.
The warning comes after your line has stopped
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.
Automated KPIs first. Then the machine, when a number doesn't add up.
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, outbound only, and the supplier can disconnect it
- 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, captured in the moment, not pieced together afterwards
- The supplier runs the Floor-to-Profit Method on the same connection — you watch the bottleneck clear
Your molds, at your suppliers' plants.
Tools 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 +Your own plants, in one view
Because your own people install Visual Factories and it works with any machine, you see all your plants worldwide, live, on the same platform.
Industries · multi-plantTen sites, ten days, all at once.
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.
Retire the spreadsheet.
A 30-minute session: your supplier list, your KPI definitions, and how fast a pilot wave of 10 to 20 sites goes live.