Process mapping
We walk the line with your operators. Documented procedure and actual practice always differ, and the difference is the requirement.
Service 12 — Industrial software
We automate
industrial
processes.
Automating physical processes through logic and code, working directly with your hardware vendors. Plant-floor systems, protocol integration, machine data and interfaces built for gloves and noise.
What is included
- Process mapping
- Protocol integration
- Machine data collection
- Operator interfaces
- Safety and interlocks
- Commissioning support
Software with physical consequences
On a plant floor a bug does not produce a bad screen — it produces scrap, downtime or an unsafe condition. That changes everything about how the software is built: more validation, more interlocks, more explicit states, and a testing discipline that assumes the worst input will eventually arrive.
We work directly with your hardware vendors rather than around them. Their protocol documentation, their commissioning window and their engineers on the call. It is slower to arrange and dramatically faster than reverse-engineering a proprietary bus at two in the morning.
The interface matters more here, not less
An operator interface is used by someone wearing gloves, standing up, in bad light, under time pressure, possibly on their fourth consecutive shift. Large targets, unambiguous states, no hidden menus, and colour that still works when the screen is filthy. Consumer design instincts are often exactly wrong.
Deliverables
What you
actually get.
Protocol integration
Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT, serial and proprietary buses, with vendor engineers involved from the start.
Machine data collection
Reliable capture, buffering through network loss, time-series storage and dashboards people actually open.
Operator interfaces
Built for gloves, glare and urgency. Unambiguous states, confirmations on anything destructive.
Safety and interlocks
Software that respects the safety system rather than substituting for it, with fail-safe defaults everywhere.
Commissioning support
On the floor for cutover, with a rollback plan and a documented handover to your maintenance team.
Shapes of the work
Where this
usually lands.
| System | What it delivers | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
| Machine data collection | Real downtime and OEE numbers instead of estimates | 6–10 weeks |
| Operator interface | One screen instead of three and a clipboard | 8–14 weeks |
| Process automation | A manual sequence executed consistently | 3–6 months |
| Line integration | Machines from four vendors behaving as one line | 4–9 months |
Stack
What we build
this with.
We work in your stack when you have one. These are our defaults when the choice is ours.
ModbusOPC UAMQTTPythonC++C#TimescaleDBGrafanaDockerLinux
Questions
Before you
commit.
Do you replace our PLC programming?
No. We work alongside your controls engineers and vendors. We build the supervisory, data and interface layers above the PLC, and we treat the safety system as untouchable.
Our machines are twenty years old. Is that a problem?
It is normal. Older equipment usually speaks something — serial, a proprietary bus, or a signal we can capture at the panel. We survey first and tell you honestly what is reachable and what needs a vendor.
Can it run without internet?
Yes, and it should. We design for local-first operation with buffering and later sync. A plant that stops when the WAN drops is a design failure.
Do you come on site?
For process mapping and commissioning, yes. Some things cannot be understood over a video call, and cutover is not a remote activity.
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Tell us the problem, the users and the systems already in place. We will identify the right discovery or build step.