The Operating System for your Integrated Line

Our SmartLine platform provides the foundation you need to transform your machines into a fully integrated production line. It delivers the Productivity Boost that food processing and packaging plants need through centralized control, real-time monitoring, ERP integration, and performance data collection. Moreover, it enables AI applications (agents), such as predictive maintenance and process optimization.

Reduce Downtime

Do your customers struggle with overdependence on operator availability, skill, and motivation? Manual order entry (if at all), per-machine setups, and a lack of central oversight lead to repetitive stoppages and errors.

These "small" problems add up to significant hidden downtime, killing OEE and putting daily production targets at risk. When the line isn't running, it's the reputation of the equipment—your machines—that suffers.

Our platform allows you to deliver a unified line experience.

Order Management & Processing
Eliminate manual errors by pulling order data directly from the customer's ERP. The platform coordinates every machine to ensure the right product is run with the right configuration, every time.
Intuitive 3D Visualization
Give operators and production managers a real-time digital twin of the entire line. Clear status indicators and alerts allow them to anticipate problems and react instantly to stoppages, minimizing downtime.

Pinpoint and resolve Bottlenecks

Production facilities have the need to be "data-driven," but the majority are operating in the dark. They have no easy way to track performance, identify bottlenecks, or understand why one shift performs better than another.

Without actionable data, continuous improvement is impossible. They miss opportunities to increase throughput and reduce costs. This gives a major edge to equipment suppliers who can provide these insights.

Our platform creates a new, recurring revenue opportunity for you.

Performance Tracking
The platform automatically logs critical production data and calculates key performance indicators (KPIs) like OEE. No more manual data collection or spreadsheets.
Operational Intelligence
Empower your customers with clear, data-driven reports to identify the root causes of lost productivity and establish yourself as a long-term, indispensable performance partner, not just an equipment vendor.

Flexible Architecture

We recognise that many end-customers (processing & packaging facilities) have reservations about cloud-native solutions, asking for on-premises/edge deployments. On the other hand, solution providers want to leverage their existing systems/platforms, support their customers remotely, and develop Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products.

Our flexible architecture natively enables all of the above, and helps prevent costly, foundational design mistakes — the biggest risk in any Smart Factory project. We develop the blueprint for long-term success, not just the short-term focused pieces.

Our SmartLine platform is built on a resilient 'System of Systems' architecture, using a layered approach to ensure scalability, ranging from a single production line to a multi-facility enterprise. This design provides a clear separation between machine control, line supervision, and factory-level management, which is key to ensuring reliability and long-term extensibility.

SmartLine leverages industry standards, including the PackML (ISA-TR88) state model and Alarms & Conditions (ISA-18.2), to create a common understanding among operators, managers, maintenance staff, and software agents. Combined with (but not limited to) the industry-leading Machine communication protocols like OPC UA, integration efforts are minimized.

Modular Platform

Two decades of experience with best practices in Systems of Systems Engineering (SoSE), the Internet of Things (IoT), and embedded software engineering have led to the development of our modular, fault-tolerant, scalable, and easily extensible SmartLine platform. The software is cross-platform, enabling the deployment on existing machine hardware in many cases.

Still, handling the complexity of the many different components in a distributed cyber-physical system can be a daunting task. Our platform enables developers to view the line as a single system, rather than a collection of disparate components. Consequently, developers work on the same system using the same tools, resulting in a stronger team cohesion, fewer unexpected issues, and therefore shorter development times.

ColosSoS
Our 4th-generation integration framework simplifies the most complex challenges of Systems of Systems. It dramatically reduces development complexity and enables quick, scalable and resilient deployments by 'automagically' transforming a collection of disparate components into a single Smart Factory system. This allows development to focus on end-user functionality instead of network communication technicalities.

SmartLine Core
The semantic datamodel defines the system's entities, relationships, data attributes, and commands, ensuring humans and AI agents can interact with a common understanding of the system.
SmartLine Agents
The "brain" consists of Intelligent Agents that perform the business logic. Think of coordinating machines when running production orders, analysing and optimizing performance, and predicting maintenance.
SmartLine Graphical User Interface
The UI provides operators with complete control and a real-time view of the entire line/cell. It enables Production Managers to monitor and prepare work remotely, e.g., from the control room or office.
Integration SDK
This toolkit simplifies the integration of machines into the SmartLine platform while minimizing changes to and disruptions of the overarching system.

Ready to Supercharge Your Equipment?

Discover how the SmartLine platform can reduce your time-to-market, mitigate technical risk, and provide a competitive advantage. Contact us to schedule an explorative conversation.

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