Stop Downtime. Improve OEE.
Real-time machine monitoring and predictive maintenance that keeps your production running at peak efficiency - deployed in days, not months.
Common challenges
Unplanned downtime costing thousands per hour
No visibility into actual OEE metrics
Legacy equipment without connectivity
Manual data collection is unreliable
Reactive maintenance instead of predictive
Worker safety blind spots on the factory floor
Downtime is only the visible loss
Most plants already know when a line has stopped. The sales opportunity is catching the smaller losses that happen before a stoppage becomes obvious.
Map My Use CaseHidden idle time
Short stops, missing material, and slow changeovers rarely make it into manual reports, but they quietly reduce available capacity every shift.
Late maintenance signals
Current draw, vibration, and temperature usually change before a failure. Without live monitoring, the warning stays inside the machine.
Untrusted OEE
When availability and performance are typed in by hand, production teams debate the numbers instead of fixing the bottleneck.
Escalation delays
Operators know about problems first. CHESTER Push turns that knowledge into a timestamped alert maintenance can act on immediately.
How We Help
OEE Monitoring
Automatically calculate Overall Equipment Effectiveness with accurate availability, performance, and quality data from every machine.
Predictive Maintenance
Monitor current draw, vibration, and temperature to predict failures before they cause downtime. Alert maintenance teams while there's still time to act.
Machine State Tracking
Real-time visibility into machine states - running, idle, stopped - across the entire factory floor. Identify bottlenecks and hidden capacity.
ANDON Systems
CHESTER Push enables instant worker-initiated alerts when production issues occur, reducing response time from minutes to seconds.
OEE Monitoring
Automatically calculate Overall Equipment Effectiveness with accurate availability, performance, and quality data from every machine.
Predictive Maintenance
Monitor current draw, vibration, and temperature to predict failures before they cause downtime. Alert maintenance teams while there's still time to act.
Machine State Tracking
Real-time visibility into machine states - running, idle, stopped - across the entire factory floor. Identify bottlenecks and hidden capacity.
ANDON Systems
CHESTER Push enables instant worker-initiated alerts when production issues occur, reducing response time from minutes to seconds.
A practical path from one line to plant-wide visibility
Start with the signals that prove machine availability, then add predictive maintenance inputs and connect the data to dashboards, alerts, and existing MES or BI tools.
Capture machine state
Read PLC data over Modbus or RS-485, or count pulses on older equipment to separate running, idle, stopped, and fault states.
Detect load and anomalies
Measure current draw to confirm utilization and spot abnormal behavior before it becomes a maintenance event.
Escalate from the line
Give operators a rugged one-button ANDON trigger with automatic event logging for faster response and cleaner root-cause analysis.
Deliver usable data
Send alerts, feed dashboards, and integrate through REST API, MQTT, and webhooks without replacing existing production systems.
"Deploying CHESTER Push has enabled us to respond quickly to the needs of individual sites, eliminate unnecessary downtime, and streamline the entire logistics process."
Built for pilots that become standards
The right first deployment should answer a production question quickly, prove the economics, and become repeatable across machines, lines, and sites.
less unplanned downtime
Typical reduction target when machine state, alerts, and predictive inputs are deployed together.
OEE improvement
A realistic gain when teams can see true availability and act on bottlenecks during the shift.
typical payback
Focused pilots are designed around a measurable line problem rather than a broad platform rollout.
Results buyers can verify
Machine data without a production-line rebuild
- Before
- The team needed OEE and downtime visibility from existing equipment without replacing PLCs or stopping the line for a long integration.
- Deployment
- CHESTER Current and worker-initiated alerts captured machine state, idle time, and escalation events from a focused production cell.
- Result
- The buyer could compare planned production with actual machine behavior and package the same bill of materials for the next machines.
Products for Manufacturing
GAUGER
GAUGER reads utility meters optically - no wiring, no meter replacement, instant deployment.
CHESTER
CHESTER is our ruggedized IoT gateway field-proven down to -40°C in Canadian winters.
CLOUD
HARDWARIO Cloud provides secure data infrastructure with REST API, MQTT, and ready-made integrations.
A first production line can be live in days
Keep the first deployment narrow enough to prove value, then repeat the same architecture across similar machines.
Define the production question
Choose the line, machine states, alert rules, and KPI that will make the pilot commercially obvious.
Install and validate signals
Attach sensors or connect to PLC signals, verify data quality, and configure dashboards and alerts.
Run with operators
Use real production shifts to validate downtime reasons, response time, and maintenance triggers.
Decide the rollout
Review the baseline, quantify savings, and package the bill of materials for the next machines or sites.
Buyer questions
Do we need to replace existing PLCs or MES systems?
No. HARDWARIO is designed to retrofit existing equipment and send usable data into the tools you already use.
Can this work on legacy machines with no data interface?
Yes. Machine state can be inferred from current draw, pulse counting, external contacts, vibration, temperature, and operator input.
What should the first pilot measure?
Start with one commercial problem: unplanned downtime, hidden idle time, slow response to line issues, or a critical machine with rising maintenance risk.
Build Your Next Solution for Manufacturing
Tell us about your customers and use case. We will help you pick the right configuration and get your first deployment running.
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