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Case 02 · Machine Monitor

IN PILOT

Half your machines are idle. Which half?

A CNC job shop runs on gut feel: the owner finds out about a stopped machine at seven in the evening, from a register filled in from memory. We put a sensor node on every machine — even the 20-year-old ones — and the truth on one screen.

Site · Peenya, BengaluruFloor · CNC job shopStatus · Pilot running

01

The situation · As found

Blind between 6am and the evening register.

A typical job shop in Peenya runs ten to twenty machines across two shifts. Ask the owner which machine made money yesterday and the honest answer is a guess.

Utilization lives in a notebook, filled in at the end of the shift, from memory. Stoppages get rounded down. Idle hours disappear. The machines that look busy and the machines that are busy are not the same list — and quoting, scheduling and hiring all run on the wrong one.

The monitoring products that exist assume a new machine with a modern controller and a factory IT team. A Peenya floor has a 2004 lathe, a retrofitted VMC, no two controllers alike and a Jio hotspot for internet. So nothing gets monitored at all.

02

What we deployed

A sensor node on every machine. The truth on one screen.

No controller integration. No machine modification. A node clamps on, the floor shows up live, and the owner can finally see it — from the shop or from home.

What the owner sees — live, on any phone

  • S-01

    Sense

    A small node clamps onto the machine's power line or taps the stack light. No controller integration, no modification to the machine. If it was installed in 2004, we can still read it.

  • S-02

    See

    Running, idle, off — live, for every machine, on one screen. Green means cutting. Amber means waiting. Grey means off. No interpretation needed.

  • S-03

    Tap

    When a machine stops, the operator taps a reason — no material, tool change, no operator. Reject counts work the same way. One tap, at the machine, while it's fresh.

  • S-04

    Buffer

    Offline-first. The node stores readings locally and syncs when the network comes back. A power cut or a dropped hotspot never loses a minute of data.

  • S-05

    Read

    The dashboard is built for a cheap Android over Jio, not a control-room wall. Big numbers, fast load, readable at arm's length in workshop light.

03

Where it stands

In pilot. Numbers being measured.

Machine Monitor is running as a pilot at a CNC job shop in Peenya. When the eight-week numbers exist, they'll be here — real, not projected.

  • Done

    Sensor node on machine

  • Running

    Live dashboard

  • In use

    Stop-reason logging

  • Measuring

    Utilization baseline

04

The offer

Try it on the machine you trust least.

Seeing one week of one machine's real day is usually enough. So that's the deal — and it costs you nothing.

Case 02 · Offer

Pilot terms

Free

One sensor, one machine, one week — free.

Pick the machine you trust least. We clamp one sensor node on it, you get the live screen, and for seven days you watch what it actually does — from the floor or from home. No wiring into the controller, no commitment, no paperwork.

We bring
The sensor node, the mounting, the dashboard, and the engineer who sets it up.
You give
One machine, one power point, and seven days of running it like any other week.
It costs
Nothing. If the week's data tells you nothing you didn't already know, we unclamp it and leave.
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Put it on a machine

Your floor · Open

Two doors. The same engineer on your floor.

Come with a blueprint or come with a problem you've lived with for years. Either way, the first week costs you nothing but a power point.

Tell us what you want built Tell us what's broken