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Stop Chasing Problems.See Them Before They Stop Your Line.

See which machines are healthy, which are slowing down, and where work is piling up. Prevent the $50K/hour downtime events before they happen.

Significant downtime reduction
MES/ERP connected
Real-time OEE

The Challenge

What poor visibility actually costs you

Unplanned Downtime Blindsides You

By the time your operator radios in, you've already lost $50K. Traditional systems tell you what happened, not what's about to happen.

$50K+ per hour in lost production

Bottlenecks Are Invisible Until It's Too Late

WIP piles up at a constraint you can't see. By the time it's obvious, you've lost half a shift.

15-20% throughput loss from hidden constraints

Data Lives in 17 Different Systems

Your MES says one thing, your ERP another, your quality system a third. Getting a unified view requires a data analyst and half a day.

Hours lost to manual data reconciliation

WIP Tracking Is Guesswork

Where are those 200 units? Somewhere between machining and assembly. Probably. Your production manager is walking the floor to find out.

Lost inventory and expediting costs

The Difference

Before and after Sandhed

Before

Operator radios in about a stopped machine

With Sandhed

Sandhed alerts you 15 minutes before failure

Before

Walk the floor to find bottlenecks

With Sandhed

See constraints highlighted in real-time 3D

Before

Export from MES, import to Excel, make charts

With Sandhed

Live unified dashboard from all sources

Before

Manual cycle counts and WIP tracking

With Sandhed

Real-time location of every unit in production

Explore Solutions

Solutions Built for Manufacturing

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.

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Real-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.

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OEE 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.

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Inventory Visibility

Your WMS knows quantities. Sandhed shows you where that inventory physically sits on your floor plan, with zone-based counts and heatmaps that update as stock moves.

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Maintenance 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.

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Quality 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.

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Supplier 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.

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Floor Plan Visualization

Upload a floor plan and get an interactive 3D model of your facility in hours. Place assets, define zones, and overlay live sensor data on your actual building layout.

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AI 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.

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Custom Dashboards & KPI Views

Your factory generates thousands of data points every hour. Sandhed puts them on drag-and-drop dashboards tied to your 3D floor plan, so every role sees exactly what they need.

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Work Order Management

A broken machine gets reported verbally. A work order gets scribbled on paper. No one knows who is handling it or when it will be done. Sandhed gives every work order a location, an owner, and a timeline.

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Historical Replay & Incident Investigation

When something goes wrong on the floor, the first question is always 'what happened?' Sandhed's Timemachine lets you scrub back to any moment and see your entire facility exactly as it was.

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Universal 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.

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Analytics & Automated Reports

Your factory generates data constantly. Sandhed's analytics platform turns it into pre-built reports, trend analysis, and scheduled deliveries so the right numbers reach the right people without anyone pulling a spreadsheet.

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Proven Results

Numbers That Matter to Your P&L

0%

Less unplanned downtime

0%

Annual cost savings

0 hrs

Setup time (not months)

0%

OEE improvement

Based on platform capabilities and industry benchmarks.

Capabilities

Built for Manufacturing

Purpose-built features that address your industry's specific challenges.

Real-Time Equipment Monitoring

See which machines are running, slowing down, or about to fail. Data comes straight from your PLCs with no manual entry.

Real-time

MES Integration

See your MES data visualized alongside everything else. Works with a wide range of MES systems.

20+ MES connectors

Bottleneck Visualization

Bottlenecks light up red in your 3D model before they back up the line. WIP accumulation is visible instantly.

Instant detection

OEE Analytics

OEE calculated live for every machine, every line, and the entire plant. No spreadsheets, no waiting for month-end.

Auto-calculated

WIP Tracking

Know where every unit is in production right now. Click any item to see its complete journey through the plant.

Sub-meter precision

Predictive Alerts

Get warned before equipment fails, not after. Alerts reach the right person via email, SMS, or push notification.

15 min early warning

Real-World Scenarios

A Day in the Life with Sandhed

Here's what a typical day looks like with Sandhed running.

7:47 AM

Catching spindle wear before it stops the line

Your CNC cluster in Zone 3 is showing spindle vibration 15% above baseline. Sandhed flags it amber. Your maintenance tech is there by 8:15 with the replacement bearing. No line stoppage. The bearing gets swapped by 8:15.

2:30 PM

Spotting a backup 20 minutes early

Assembly line 4 is backing up. But you already knew that 20 minutes ago because Sandhed showed WIP accumulating on the 3D model. You shifted two operators from line 3 (which was ahead) before anyone noticed. Line 4 stays on pace.

4:00 PM

Pulling a bad batch before it reaches assembly

Sandhed flagged that CMM station 2 rejected 3 consecutive parts. You trace them to CNC-07, check the parameters, find the worn tool, and pull the affected batch before it reaches assembly. The batch gets pulled before it leaves the building.

Integrations

Works with your existing factory systems

Sandhed connects to your existing systems via industry-standard protocols.

Industrial PLCs

Allen-Bradley compatibleS7 compatibleVarious via OPC UA

MES Systems

Standard MES protocolsCustom integrations available

ERP

Standard ERP protocolsREST API connectivity

Protocols

OPC UAMQTTEtherNet/IPModbus TCP

RTLS

Major RTLS vendors supported

Don't see your system? We support 150+ industrial protocols via our gateway integrations.

Success Story

Real Results from Real Operations

We went from finding out about downtime after it happened to preventing most of it. Our OEE improved significantly in the first quarter.

Company Type

Mid-Size Discrete Manufacturer

Employees

450

Assets monitored

127 machines

Significant

downtime reduction

Substantial

annual savings

4 hours

deployment time

Related Resources

Answer

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.

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Answer

How to Monitor a Factory Floor in Real Time

Real-time factory monitoring means having sensor data from machines, environment, and process parameters available within seconds, not hours. It starts with choosing the right sensors for your top failure modes, runs through an edge-to-cloud architecture that handles the data volume, and works only if the alert design respects your operators' attention.

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Answer

How 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.

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