JIT Production Withoutthe JIT Panic.
Real-time supplier visibility, quality gate monitoring, and live OEE so you catch supply gaps and quality issues before they stop the line.
The Challenge
What happens when a supplier truck is 45 minutes late
JIT Surprises Kill Your Schedule
Your supplier's truck is late. Or early. Either way, your production schedule just became a suggestion. By the time you know, it's too late to adjust.
Quality Gates Are Black Boxes
How many units passed Station 47 in the last hour? Nobody knows without walking the floor. Quality issues propagate downstream before detection.
OEE Is a Monthly Report, Not Reality
You calculate OEE after the fact. By then, the performance losses, micro-stoppages, and quality issues that caused it are ancient history.
Supplier Coordination Is Chaotic
12 suppliers, 47 components, 3 shifts. Coordinating incoming materials with production schedules requires a war room and constant phone calls.
The Difference
Before and after Sandhed
Before
Supplier late = line down
With Sandhed
See supplier status before arrival
Before
Walk the floor to check quality gates
With Sandhed
Real-time quality gate visualization
Before
Monthly OEE reports
With Sandhed
Live OEE per station and line
Before
Phone calls to coordinate suppliers
With Sandhed
Visual supplier dock scheduling
Solutions Built for Automotive
Explore the specific solutions most relevant to your operations.
Unplanned Downtime Prevention
Most manufacturers discover downtime after it costs them. Sandhed gives you the visibility to catch equipment issues before they shut down production.
View SolutionReal-Time Asset Tracking
Most factories lose hours every week searching for tools, parts, and mobile equipment. Sandhed connects to your existing RTLS tags and shows every tracked asset on your 3D floor plan in real time.
View SolutionOEE Improvement
Most manufacturers know their OEE score. Few can point to the exact machine, shift, or station dragging it down. Sandhed maps availability, performance, and quality data onto your floor plan so you can see where OEE drops and why.
View SolutionMaintenance Management
Maintenance teams lose hours tracking down service records, chasing overdue tasks, and figuring out what was done last time. Sandhed puts every work order, service record, and maintenance schedule on your 3D floor plan where you can see it.
View SolutionQuality Gate Monitoring
Quality gates catch bad parts, but they do not tell you why a station started failing. Sandhed maps pass/fail rates and SPC data to your 3D floor plan so you can trace defect patterns back to the source station in minutes, not days.
View SolutionSupplier Delivery Visibility
Late supplier deliveries cascade into missed schedules, starved lines, and emergency expediting. Sandhed shows inbound material status on your floor plan so you can react before the gap hits production.
View SolutionAI Operations Assistant
Type a question about your facility and get answers grounded in real sensor data. Sandhed's AI assistant queries your equipment metrics, alerts, and maintenance records to give you plain-language answers instead of dashboards to decipher.
View SolutionUniversal Integration
Your PLCs, sensors, RTLS tags, and warehouse systems all generate data. Sandhed connects to all of them through a unified pipeline and brings everything onto one floor plan.
View SolutionProven Results
Numbers That Matter to Your P&L
OEE improvement
Annual savings potential
Fewer quality escapes
Setup time (not months)
Based on platform capabilities and industry benchmarks.
Capabilities
Built for Automotive
Purpose-built features that address your industry's specific challenges.
JIT Production Monitoring
See takt times, buffer levels, and line balance in real time. Know when production is drifting off pace before it becomes a problem.
Quality Gate Visualization
Spot quality issues the moment they appear. Pass/fail rates and defect patterns shown per station so problems don't travel downstream.
Supplier Dock Visibility
See what's arriving, when, and at which dock. No more surprises when a truck shows up early or late.
Real-Time OEE
OEE calculated live for every station, line, and plant. Act on performance gaps today, not in next month's report.
Andon Integration
See andon calls the moment they happen, right on your 3D floor plan. Track response times and escalate when needed.
Line Balance Optimization
Find where work is piling up and where capacity is going to waste. Visual cycle time data makes rebalancing straightforward.
Real-World Scenarios
A Day in the Life with Sandhed
Here's what a typical day looks like with Sandhed running.
Adjusting the build sequence before a late truck arrives
“Supplier truck delayed by 45 minutes. But you knew at 5:30 because Sandhed showed the truck status. You adjusted the build sequence, pulled from safety stock for 3 part numbers, and kept the line running.”
Catching a fail-rate spike at Station 12
“Station 12 fail rate jumps from 2% to 8% in 15 minutes. Sandhed flags it immediately. Root cause: tool wear on the previous station. You swap the tool before it becomes a batch problem. 200 units saved from rework.”
Finding micro-stoppages hiding in the shift change
“Your shift supervisor spots that Line 3's OEE dropped 5% this week. He drills into Sandhed, sees micro-stoppages clustering at Station 7 between 10-11 AM. Turns out, that's when material handlers rotate shifts. Quick process change, OEE back up.”
Integrations
Connects to Your Automotive Ecosystem
Sandhed connects to your existing systems via industry-standard protocols.
MES Systems
ERP
Industrial PLCs
Quality
Protocols
Don't see your system? We support 150+ industrial protocols via our gateway integrations.
Success Story
Real Results from Real Operations
“We went from firefighting daily JIT crises to preventing them entirely. Our OEM scorecard improved significantly in one quarter.”
Company Type
Tier 1 Automotive Supplier
Employees
1,200
Lines monitored
12 assembly lines
Improved
OEE performance
Reduced
quality escapes
Fewer
JIT-related line stoppages
Related Resources
Why Does My Production Line Keep Stopping?
Most unplanned stops come from a short list of causes that compound each other. Sensor blind spots, delayed maintenance response, equipment running past rated cycles, power quality events, raw material drift, PLC faults, and shift-change errors account for the majority of lost production time. Fixing them requires data correlation, not more dashboards.
Read answerHow to Reduce Equipment Downtime: 8 Strategies Ranked by Impact
Reducing equipment downtime starts with knowing where you're losing time, not with buying technology. The eight strategies below are ranked by how much downtime they typically eliminate in the first year. The top three are organizational fixes that cost almost nothing. The rest require incremental investment but build on each other.
Read answerHow to Improve OEE: The 5 Levers That Actually Move the Number
OEE is the product of availability, performance, and quality. Most plants know their OEE number but can't pinpoint which of the three factors is dragging it down or why. Improving OEE requires decomposing the score, finding hidden losses in each category, and connecting production data to spatial context so you can see where on the floor the problems actually live.
Read answerSee how Sandhed works with your assembly lines
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