Has your lean manufacturing programme stalled or have you just implemented the basics? Then LiveFactory may be perfect for you. 

We’ve distilled years of lean manufacturing experience into an easy-to-use product to jump-start your lean manufacturing journey. 

LiveFactory provides the essential data monitoring and analysis tools to enable your team to implement focused improvement projects that directly benefit your bottom line.

What is it?

LiveFactory makes up-to-the-minute production and stoppage analysis available to your team, on any device, at any time.

This requires the installation of one IR sensor unit per production line, with mains power and an ethernet cable. Using the latest cloud technology, LiveFactory delivers a high performance, fault-tolerant and secure user experience.  By always having accurate production data, your team can make data-driven decisions about where to focus limited resources for the highest leverage improvements in manufacturing. 

Empower your production team with the live, visual production feed.  Make lasting performance improvements by performing deep dives leveraging our built-in analysis.  Encourage transparency, ownership and accountability at every level of your organisation.

Features

Easy-to-Install and Easy-to-Use

No on-site server, no PLC cabinet and no machine interlocks.

We’ll have your team up and running in a day

Accessible Anywhere

Keep an eye on production any time whether working from home, at night or on weekends

Shop Floor Accountability

Your team can see their performance in real time and react!

Optimize

Pre-configured reports give your production team deep insights on where to improve

Focus your project spend and effort on where it matters most

Main Modules

  • Production Overview

    A summary view of the performance of all your production lines at a glance

  • Live Shift Monitor

    Graph showing production units against target with all the key KPIs at your fingertips and a summary pareto of stoppages.

  • Analysis

    Quick generation of commonly used graphs so that performance improvement areas can be pinpointed for continuous improvement. It is simple but powerful!

  • Production Planner

    Easily load SKU data and weekly shift plans for each production line. Also provides a snapshot of actual production units against targeted units for the week.

Benefits

  • Cost-effective . OpEx instead of CapEx

  • Rapid, low-risk deployment

  • Easy for your whole team to start using

  • Practical lean manufacturing insights available out-of-the-box to improve your bottom line

“We created LiveFactory from the ground up as an easy but powerful production monitoring solution.  It’s not that there aren’t systems for this already, however we used our consulting experience to integrate the lean programme directly into the product. We proactively promote efficient behaviour. ”
— Salim Essack, Founder

Case Study

  • A manufacturer of over-the-counter medicines deployed LiveFactory in order to kick-start a lean manufacturing programme.

  • In order to minimise impact on the production team the deployment and training was staggered over a month, as the year end shut-down was approaching.

  • Immediate benefits included greater visibility of planned and actual volumes, leading to greater accountability among operators and more focused production meetings.  Line Supervisors now have to account for their stoppages creating a culture of accountability and Maintenance has to prioritize fixes based on actual quantifiable production pain points.

  • Better understanding of the production environment and its constraints is leading to a more motivated and better aligned management team.

  • LiveFactory provided a reliable, complete data-set that provided a clear business-case to reconfigure a batch processing line to a single piece workflow process. After a few production runs on the new process, LiveFactory established the new achievable demonstrated capacity. As a result the planners were able to significantly increase sustainable production output levels.

  • Over a two month period LiveFactory was deployed, staff trained, and analysis generated that has improved operator accountability, supported a concrete step change in demonstrated capacity on one line, and built the team’s confidence to drive further improvements.  Decisions are now backed up by data that is visible to everyone.

SkyView and LiveFactory software fill the gap when you don’t have the staff maturity or skills.

— Peter Kreft, CoMED CEO, 27 May 2022 —

Pricing

LiveFactory has a fundamentally different business model to other monitoring software

  • Pricing is per production line, with no limit on the number of users

  • Being cloud based, hardware and installations costs are substantially lower than competing platforms

  • Simple, clear pricing with a simple monthly service fee

FAQ

Will it work for my factory?

Yes.  LiveFactory will work for any production environment where an IR sensor can be mounted to count items as they pass by.

Who owns the data?

You own your data and it is downloadable at any point as a CSV file.

Is it secure?

Yes. We follow industry best practice to protect your data.

Am I locked in?

No. We are confident in the quality our product and service, however you may cancel the service at any time with one months notice.

What countries is the LiveFactory service available in?

LiveFactory has been developed and deployed in factories in Johannesburg, South Africa.  We are able to provide on-site installation, support and training in South Africa and the UK at present.  For other countries, we courier monitoring units to you and provide web-based configuration, support and training.

Is there a way to try out LiveFactory before signing up?

Please enquire about a risk-free pilot deployment at no cost for a month.  This allows you to evaluate the LiveFactory system on a single production line.  At the end you can either return the device we provided or extend the service.

Do you provide Lean Manufacturing consulting?

Yes.  This is available on-site in South Africa at present from an experienced black belt consultant who can mentor your teams to embed the LiveFactory culture and ensure you get the most value out of the system.