Manufacturing PlatformConceptPlantwise
Live production, OEE, quality and maintenance for the factory floor.
A manufacturing execution platform: live line status and OEE, work orders, downtime reasons, quality non-conformances with corrective actions, and maintenance.
- Category
- Manufacturing · MES
- Designed for
- Web
Why Plantwise exists
The problem
Factories learn about output shortfalls, downtime and quality issues at the end of the shift, when the scrap is already made.
The product
Plantwise streams line data into live OEE, captures downtime reasons at the machine and turns quality issues into tracked corrective actions.
Built for: Discrete manufacturers, plant managers, supervisors and quality teams.
- Live line status and OEE by shift
- Work orders with progress against plan
- Downtime capture with reason codes
- Non-conformance and 8D corrective actions
- Control charts for critical dimensions
- Maintenance requests and preventive schedules
Walkthrough
The Factory, Live
Wall screens for supervisors, simple tablets for operators and analysis for engineers.
- 01
Plant Overview
Shift OEE, good parts against plan, scrap and live status of every line.
- 02
OEE Analysis
Downtime reasons, stop log and insights on what to fix first.
- 03
Work Orders
Orders by line with progress, due dates and risk.
- 04
Non-Conformance
Containment, root cause, corrective and preventive actions with a control chart.
Every screen
The full experience.
What makes it different
Machines In, Insight Out
Read-only connections to PLCs and data historians over OPC UA or MQTT, with production data modelled per line and shift.
Live OEE
Availability, performance and quality per line.
Downtime Capture
Reason codes logged at the machine.
Quality
Non-conformances with 8D actions.
Maintenance
Preventive schedules and breakdowns.
How it’s built
The technology stack.
The architecture we would build this on today, and why each piece earns its place.
- Web app
Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Fast, accessible interfaces with server rendering where it helps
- API
NestJS on Node.js · REST + WebSockets
Typed modules, clear boundaries and live updates for busy screens
- Database
PostgreSQL with row-level security
Relational integrity for money and stock, with tenant isolation in the database itself
- Background jobs
Redis + BullMQ
Imports, emails, reports and integrations run reliably off the request path
- Machine data
OPC UA and MQTT gateway · TimescaleDB
High-frequency signals stored efficiently next to business data
- Live screens
WebSockets with per-line channels
Wall displays that update within a second
- Infrastructure
AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS), Terraform, GitHub Actions
Reproducible environments and automated deploys from day one
- Observability
OpenTelemetry, Sentry, structured audit logs
Every error traced and every sensitive change attributable
More inside
From Order To Output.
What supervisors, planners and quality engineers look at every shift.
Maintenance
Breakdown requests, preventive schedules and spare parts.
Materials
Coil, component and finished-goods stock synced with the ERP.
What comes next
On the roadmap.
What a second release would add once the first one is in real users’ hands.
- 01Operator tablet app
- 02Predictive maintenance alerts
- 03Energy use per part
- 04Supplier quality portal
- 05Digital work instructions
Concept project
Need Something Like This?
This is concept work: the product design, screens and architecture we would start from. If your business needs manufacturing or production software, we can scope a first release with you, usually within a week.
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