Every supplier.
Every KPI.
No spreadsheets.
OEE, MTBF, MTTR, finished-goods and raw-materials days on hand, read directly from each supplier's MES / ERP and delivered to you live through unified dashboards, reports, alerts and API. No hardware. No site visit. Nobody types anything.
Five KPIs. Hundreds of spreadsheets.
Every supplier already reports OEE, MTBF, MTTR, finished-goods and raw-material days on hand. The data exists in their MES and ERP. Then it is re-typed into Excel and consolidated by hand. Visual Factories removes the spreadsheet: the platform reads the supplier's database directly and delivers the KPIs to you, live and unified.
Each supplier pulls numbers from its MES / ERP, builds an Excel file and sends it. You consolidate hundreds of files, chase the late ones and question the odd ones. By the time a number is read, it is weeks old.
The VF Client reads the supplier's database locally. The platform generates the five KPIs with one definition for every supplier and delivers them to you through the VF Dashboard, reports, alerts and the Unified View API. Nobody types anything.
What the manual method costs
Extracting, reconciling and formatting the report, plus the back-and-forth when a number is challenged.
A monthly snapshot arrives after the month is over. Problems are discovered when they can no longer be prevented.
Every supplier computes OEE, MTBF and MTTR its own way. The numbers sit in one table but do not compare.
A spreadsheet cell cannot be opened. Which end-of-line failed, how often and why stays at the supplier.
Copy-paste, unit mix-ups, wrong periods. Each one costs an e-mail thread and erodes trust in the report.
Days on hand is the early warning for a line stop at your plant. Read monthly, it warns after the fact.
Visual Factories removes that labor entirely and delivers the same KPIs live.
Indicative · 1 to 2 days per supplier per monthConnect. Extract. Compute. Deliver.
The supplier installs one lightweight service on its own server. Everything else happens in the Visual Factories Cloud — and lands on your screen.
The supplier installs the VF Client on its own server, with read-only access to its MES / ERP database. No hardware, no site visit.
The VF Client reads only the agreed views and streams them to the Visual Factories Cloud.
One definition for every supplier. OEE and days on hand at site level; MTBF and MTTR per end-of-line, rolled up to the site.
You see every supplier in the VF Dashboard, get scheduled reports and alerts, and pull the same KPIs into your own systems via the Unified View API.
Secured. Read-only. Supplier-installed.
Nothing from outside ever touches the supplier's database. The supplier installs the VF Client, a lightweight Windows service, on its own server; it is the only component that reads the database, through a read-only connection string the supplier creates and scopes. The VF Client talks outbound to the Visual Factories Cloud on a single port. No inbound connection, no VPN, no open port.
- Supplier-installed. The supplier downloads the VF Client and installs it on its own Windows server. No technician visit.
- Read-only. The supplier creates the connection string with view-only rights. The VF Client issues SELECT queries only; it cannot write, alter or delete.
- Scoped. Access is limited to dedicated views the supplier creates for this purpose, exposing only the fields the KPIs need.
- Outbound-only. Encrypted connection from the VF Client to the Visual Factories Cloud on a single outbound port. No inbound port, no VPN, no remote desktop.
- Local and revocable. The connection string lives on the supplier's server; the supplier can revoke it or stop the VF Client at any time.
- A Windows 11 / Windows Server machine with network access to the MES / ERP database
- A read-only connection string, scoped to the agreed views
- One outbound TCP port to the Visual Factories Cloud
- 1 to 2 hours of a database administrator to set the connection string and install the VF Client
Unifying heterogeneous manufacturing floors.
Every supplier runs a different MES, a different ERP, a different schema. The Universal Adapter Engine reads any supplier's data model and generates the five KPIs the same way, every time.
- Models and algorithms developed over 10 years in the most complex and diversified components-manufacturing environments.
- Categorization and configuration, activity parsing, timeline and data alignment — raw records in, actual-versus-target KPIs out.
- Rapid connectivity: MES / ERP data via the VF Client, with decades of accumulated manufacturing data behind the models.
- One data automation layer — monitor and optimize — on top of the unified view, for you and for the supplier.
Three parties. One small job each.
Nominate the suppliers and obtain each supplier's approval for read-only access to its MES / ERP data for your KPI reporting. Confirm the KPI definitions once, for everyone.
Creates the read-only connection string and views, installs the VF Client on its server (1 to 2 hours) and validates the first week of KPIs against its own numbers.
Verifies the cloud inputs configuration, runs the cloud, delivers the VF Dashboard, reports, alerts and API, and supports suppliers and the OEM.
Timeline per supplier site
You nominate the site and secure the supplier's approval for read-only data access. Visual Factories sends the VF Client and the IT checklist.
The supplier creates the read-only connection string and views and installs the VF Client (1 to 2 hours). Visual Factories verifies the cloud inputs configuration.
One week of KPIs runs in parallel with the supplier's own report. Differences resolved, definitions frozen.
The site appears in the VF Dashboard. Reports, alerts and API switched on. The spreadsheet is retired.
Everything the KPIs need. Nothing the supplier has to build.
- VF Client for the supplier's MES / ERP
- OEE at site level
- Finished goods and raw materials days on hand at site level
- MTBF and MTTR per end-of-line, rolled up to the site
- VF Dashboard, scheduled reports, alerts and the Unified View API
- Supplier-side access to its own KPIs
- Cloud hosting, monitoring and support for suppliers and the OEM
The supplier keeps control — and gets its own KPIs.
The connection string lives on the supplier's server and can be revoked at any time. The supplier sees the same five KPIs for its own site, validated against its own report in the first week.
One service, installed in an hour or two by its own database administrator. No hardware on the floor, no technician on site.
A supplier that later wants to improve the numbers it reports adds the Floor-to-Profit Method on the same connection.
The Supplier KPI Automation brief
The cost of the manual method, the four-step flow, the read-only architecture, the supplier IT checklist and the per-site timeline — written for OEM supply-chain and supplier-quality executives.
PDF · 5 pages · includes the supplier IT checklist
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.