Historical Replay

See What Actually HappenedNot What Someone Remembers

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.

The Problem

Where Things Break Down

When an incident happens on the floor, the investigation starts with questions and ends with guesswork. Operators remember things differently. Log files are scattered across systems. By the time someone pulls the data together, the details are fuzzy and the timeline has gaps. Shift handoffs lose context because there is no record of what actually happened, only what someone thought to write down. Compliance audits are worse. Auditors ask for proof of conditions at a specific time, and your team spends days collecting screenshots, exporting CSVs, and stitching together a timeline from fragmented sources.

Incident investigations rely on memory

When something goes wrong, the first step is asking people what they saw. Different operators give different accounts. The actual sequence of events gets lost because nobody can replay what the equipment was doing at that exact moment.

Days to reconstruct a single incident timeline

Compliance audits require manual evidence collection

Auditors want proof that conditions were within spec at a specific time. Your team exports data from PLCs, pulls logs from SCADA, and screenshots from HMIs. Assembling a complete picture for one audit finding can take a full day.

8+ hours per audit finding for evidence collection

Shift handoffs lose critical context

The outgoing shift tries to communicate what happened in 5 minutes at the board. Equipment issues that developed slowly get summarized or forgotten. The incoming shift starts without knowing what to watch.

Repeated issues across shifts due to lost context

Our Approach

What Sandhed Does Differently

Sandhed records every machine state change, sensor reading, alert, asset position, door event, and work order status continuously. The Timemachine lets you scrub back to any point in time and see your 3D floor plan exactly as it was at that moment. Machines show their actual status. Assets appear where they were. Alerts that were active are visible. You can play events forward at 2x, 5x, or 10x speed to watch how a situation developed. Event markers on the timeline highlight state changes and alerts so you can jump directly to the moments that matter. For longer time ranges, data is automatically aggregated so you can review a full week or month without waiting for raw data to load.

Full State Reconstruction

Scrub to any timestamp and see every machine's operational status, sensor readings, and position exactly as they were. The 3D floor plan rebuilds the complete state including active alerts, door positions, and work order status.

Timeline with Event Markers

A visual timeline bar shows colored markers for alerts and state changes within your selected time range. Hover to see event details, click to jump directly to that moment and zoom to the affected asset.

Variable-Speed Playback

Play events forward at 0.5x to 10x speed to watch how a situation developed over time. See machines transition between states, alerts trigger and resolve, and assets move through your facility in accelerated replay.

Smart Data Aggregation

For short time ranges you get raw sensor data. For longer periods the system automatically switches to 15-minute, hourly, or daily aggregates. You can review a full month of operations without waiting for millions of raw data points to load.

Quick Assessment

How Exposed Is Your Facility?

Incident Investigation Readiness Assessment

Answer 5 questions to get a personalized score and recommendations.

How do you currently investigate production incidents or equipment failures?
How long does it take to reconstruct a timeline of events after an incident?
How do you handle shift handoffs for ongoing equipment issues?

Industry Applications

Built for Your Industry

Historical Replay for Manufacturing

Replay production incidents, investigate quality deviations, and review shift performance on your 3D floor plan. See machine states, cycle times, and alerts exactly as they were at any past moment.

Manufacturing

Historical Replay for Food & Beverage

Reconstruct batch conditions, temperature histories, and equipment states for food safety investigations and compliance documentation.

Food & Beverage

Historical Replay for Pharmaceutical

Provide complete environmental and equipment state histories for GMP compliance. Replay cleanroom conditions, equipment parameters, and deviation events with full audit traceability.

Pharmaceutical

Expected Outcomes

Results You Can Measure

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Faster incident investigation

Reduction in time to reconstruct events

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Days of history available

Full year of operational history

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Playback speed

Maximum accelerated replay speed

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Setup time

From floor plan to historical replay

Based on platform capabilities and industry benchmarks. Results vary by facility.

FAQ

Common Questions

By default, the Timemachine stores a full year of historical data. Your organization can configure a custom start date if you want to restrict how far back users can browse. The system stores all machine states, sensor readings, alerts, asset positions, door events, and work orders continuously.

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Related Resources

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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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See Your Facility's History in Action

We will load your floor plan and show you how the Timemachine replays events on your actual layout. Bring a past incident and we will walk through it together.