Services · Brevard County, FL

See Your Whole Floor in Real Time

Custom production dashboards for small and mid-size manufacturers on the Space Coast. Machine status, OEE, cycle times, and downtime — live on a TV on your floor and on your phone — built for your operation instead of a six-figure MES license.

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Sound familiar?

No idea what utilization actually is

Shops that feel busy often measure spindle utilization for the first time and find machines cutting far less than anyone believed. You can't fix what you can't see.

Paper travelers and whiteboards

Production status lives on clipboards and in the lead's head. Answering 'where is job 4471?' means walking the floor.

MES quotes start at six figures

The big monitoring platforms are priced for plants with hundreds of machines. A 10-machine shop needs the visibility, not the enterprise license.

How it works

The dashboard demo on this site shows the pattern with 10 simulated machines. A real install connects to your actual equipment:

  1. 1

    Connect the machines

    Modern CNCs connect through their controller protocols. Older iron gets simple retrofit sensors — spindle load, part counters, stack lights. No machine is too old to monitor.

  2. 2

    Data pipeline and storage

    Cycle counts, run/idle/down states, and alarms flow into a database you own — on-premises if your work requires it.

  3. 3

    The dashboard

    OEE gauges, machine tiles, shift summaries, and downtime reasons — designed around how your floor actually runs, not a generic template.

  4. 4

    Alerts that matter

    Machine down 10+ minutes, cycle time drifting, job behind schedule — pushed to the right person instead of discovered at the end of the shift.

What visibility is worth

A machine billed at $150/hr that gains just 5% utilization adds roughly $15,000/year of capacity — per machine, with no new equipment. Expect the first dashboard week to be uncomfortable: the measured data is usually worse than the gut feel. That gap is the ROI.

Built on your floor, not from a screen share

Most dashboard projects fail in the last ten feet. The data exists, but nobody mounted the TV where the crew actually looks, nobody tuned the layout to how the shift really runs, and after two weeks the dashboard is a browser tab nobody opens. Working locally fixes the last ten feet. I'm based in Cocoa; a floor in Rockledge, Melbourne, or Titusville is a short drive, so layouts get adjusted standing next to the machines with your lead — moved, resized, and re-prioritized based on what people actually glance at mid-shift.

For Brevard County shops feeding the aerospace supply chain, visibility also feeds customer confidence. When a prime's buyer asks where their parts are, 'checking the dashboard now' is a different conversation than 'let me walk the floor and call you back.' The same data that runs the shop-floor TV becomes on-time-delivery evidence at contract review, and the downtime history becomes the business case for the next machine purchase. None of that requires an MES — it requires honest data and a screen everyone trusts.

Try the live dashboard demo

Ten machines, live OEE gauges, and a detail panel per machine — the same layout pattern a real install uses:

  • ✓Machine status tiles with run/idle/down states
  • ✓OEE gauges updating in real time
  • ✓Click any machine for cycle and downtime detail
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Business AI Pilot

$2,500 – $5,000

A dashboard for an existing data source is a Business AI Pilot. Connecting machines that have never been monitored usually pairs it with light Factory Floor work — the audit determines which.

  • ✓Custom dashboard OR AI agent OR workflow automation
  • ✓Integration with your existing business tools
  • ✓Complete documentation and runbook
  • ✓Staff training session
  • ✓30-day post-launch support

Timeline: 2-4 weeks

Guarantee: 3 automated workflows live within 30 days — or up to 15 additional days of buildout at no charge.

Every engagement starts with the free Automation Audit — on-site in Brevard County, written report in 48 hours, no cost and no obligation.

Common questions

Our machines are 20+ years old. Can they be monitored?+
Yes. Pre-network machines get retrofit sensors — current clamps on the spindle, part-count sensors, stack-light taps. It's less data than a modern controller gives, but utilization and downtime tracking work fine.
Does our production data leave the building?+
Only if you want it to. The stack runs fully on-premises for ITAR-regulated and security-conscious shops — dashboard included. Remote access is optional, not required.
How is this different from MachineMetrics or an MES?+
Those are excellent platforms priced and designed for bigger plants. This is a custom build sized to a 5-50 person shop: you own the system outright, pay no per-machine monthly license, and it shows exactly what your floor needs — nothing else.
What happens to the dashboard if you disappear?+
You keep a complete, documented system. The dashboard is standard web technology backed by a database in your building, with the schema and code documented and handed over. Any competent developer can maintain it — there is no proprietary platform in the middle. That's a deliberate design constraint of every build, and it's also why the monthly retainer is optional rather than required.

Related

Based in Cocoa. On-site across the Space Coast.

The free audit walks your floor, maps your processes, and prices the opportunities — 3+ actionable findings, no cost, no obligation.