Smart Factory Calculators for Manufacturing Plants
Four free tools to put numbers on your plant: cycle time, OEE, the return on production monitoring, and how far along your operation is today. To move those numbers on the plant floor, you need real-time visibility into OEE, downtime, and plant performance. Nulogy Smart Factory, along with Nora, our built-in AI assistant, keeps you up to speed, so issues reach you before they cost a shift.
- Track OEE, downtime, and performance in real time
- Replace spreadsheets and manual production reports
- Give every team visibility across the plant
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Each tool takes a few minutes and uses numbers you already have from a shift report or schedule. Start with the question you’re trying to answer.
Cycle Time & OEE Software for the Factory Floor
Stop waiting until the end of a shift — or the end of the week — to understand what happened on your shop floor. Nulogy Smart Factory gives manufacturers a live production monitoring system to track OEE, downtime, scrap, throughput, and line performance from a single connected dashboard.
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manufacturing leaders
If we could save fifteen minutes on machine time per operator, just by eliminating paperwork to be more efficient — we calculated we could save over $75,000. We have easily saved over $100,000 just in efficiency and paperwork alone.
Cycle Time & OEE Monitoring Software For Real-Time Visibility
Get the real-time visibility you need to understand what is happening across every line, shift, and site, without waiting for spreadsheets, manual updates, or Monday morning reports.
Part of Nulogy Intelligence
Ask Nora. She Answers, Charts It, and Acts.
Nora is the manufacturing AI assistant built into Smart Factory and Maintenance. No dashboards to dig through. Ask in plain English and watch what comes back.
Tap a question to see Nora work
Your data stays yours. Nora never fabricates an answer, learns your line names and part numbers, and is never used to train external models.
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You Don't Open Nora. Nora Comes to You.
Every other AI assistant on the plant floor waits to be asked. Nora is built to flip that.
You notice the problem, then go ask. By then the line was already down.
Net weights are drifting toward the low limit. Nothing has failed yet. Want me to flag it?
“What gets tracked, gets improved.”
“Reduction in overtime was exactly what we were looking to do… and that’s exactly what we have achieved.”
“The real-time reporting at the manufacturing level is the biggest benefit.”
“Now that we have the transparency into the process, our OEE availability has increased significantly.”
Production Monitoring Customer Success Story Oral Biotech used Nulogy Smart Factory to replace manual production reporting with real-time production monitoring. By capturing live shop floor data - including previously missed short stops - the team gained better visibility into performance issues, improved line efficiency, increased OEE from around 60% to close to 80%, and significantly reduced scrap and rework.
Finding The Right Cycle Time & OEE Monitoring System
Nulogy Smart Factory connects to your existing equipment — no rip-and-replace — and starts capturing live production data in days, not months. Track OEE, downtime, scrap, throughput, and line performance from a single connected dashboard across every shift, line, and site.
Implementing Production Monitoring Software
Connect Your Machines
Nulogy Smart Factory connects to your existing equipment and shop floor systems. No rip-and-replace required. Start capturing live production data from your lines in days, not months.
Capture Live Production Data
Operators log production events, downtime reasons, and job progress directly from the shop floor. Data flows automatically into a single connected platform — no spreadsheets, no manual entry.
See and Improve Performance
Supervisors and managers get instant visibility into OEE, downtime, throughput, and line performance across every shift, line, and site — so they can spot issues and act before they impact output.
Frequently Asked Questions
Start with the question you need answered. If you want to know how fast a line makes parts, use the cycle time calculator. If you want to know where a shift lost time, use the OEE calculator. If you are building a business case for production monitoring, use the ROI calculator. If you are not sure where your plant stands, take the digital assessment.
Mostly what is already on a shift report. Cycle time needs parts produced and run time. OEE needs planned production time, downtime, total count, good count, and ideal cycle time. The ROI calculator needs days per week, shifts per day, hours per shift, machine count, and the hourly cost to run a machine, line, or cell.
The cycle time and OEE calculators run in your browser and update as you type, so nothing is submitted. The ROI calculator asks for an email address so it can show your estimate and send you a copy.
They are only as good as the numbers you enter. Manual counts and paper downtime logs tend to miss short stops and slow running, which makes OEE look better than it is. Nulogy Smart Factory pulls counts and downtime straight from the machine, through a PLC connection, a Banner wireless sensor, or an Advantech gateway, so the numbers reflect what actually happened on the shift.
Use the results to pick where to dig in: the line with the lowest OEE, the biggest downtime reasons, or the products that run slower than they should. If you want to see those numbers live for every line and shift, book a Smart Factory demo. Most customers see a 10 to 20% OEE increase in their first year once these losses become visible.
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