Metal Stamping & Fabrication
Keep the Press Running. Maintain the Shipping Date. Send Everyone Home Safe.
Production monitoring, maintenance, quality and safety on one operating system. Built for press shops and fabricators.
Nulogy Smart Factory reads counts and stops straight off your presses, brakes and welding cells (old and new), and runs on the same Manufacturing Operating System as Maintenance and Quality & Compliance. Book a demo and we'll show you how Smart Factory runs on lines like yours.
The Problem With the End-of-Shift Sheet
In a Press Shop, the Micro-Stops Cost the Most
Big breakdowns warrant a work order and a meeting. A three-minute stop for a coil change, a misfeed or a die adjustment gets nothing, because nobody writes it down. Add those up across every press and every shift, and you accumulate the overtime you keep paying for.
Each stop is too short for anyone to log. By the end of the week the job is a shift behind, and the only fix anyone can see is an extra Saturday.
Nobody knows whether that was the die, the setup crew or a missing coil, because the changeover was one line on a whiteboard. The next changeover runs long for the same reason.
The maintenance team finds out from a phone call, and the shipping team finds out at the dock. If the machine had been showing trouble for days, nobody was keeping an eye on it.
They want the inspection records, the root cause and proof the fix worked, by part number. If the checks are on paper and the CAPA is in a spreadsheet, that answer takes a week.
Press shops and fabricators do not lose the week in one breakdown. They lose the week in hundreds of stops nobody counted. You can't fix what the clipboard never saw.
What We Cover
Six Moments. One System.
Every one of these steps runs on the same machines, the same part numbers and the same shifts. That's what separates an operating system from a whiteboard, a clipboard and a spreadsheet.
The Press Is Running
Smart Factory reads cycle counts straight off your equipment through a PLC connection, a Banner wireless sensor or an Advantech gateway, so an older mechanical press gets counted alongside the new servo line. OEE, downtime and scrap show up by line and by shift while the shift is still running, and Smart Factory alerts the team the moment a press stops. H&T Waterbury, a precision metal components manufacturer, found its micro-stoppage problem was bigger than the team anticipated, then cut micro-stoppages by 71%.
The Die Has To Change
Changeovers are planned downtime, and planned downtime still has a number. Operators code every stop with a reason on the scoreboard at the press, so die changes, coil changes and first-piece waits stop hiding inside one long gap. You can see which presses, which parts and which shifts run long on changeover, and whether the fix you tried last month is holding.
The Press Has To Stay Up
Nulogy Maintenance triggers work from machine condition and usage signals, using the same machine data Smart Factory already collects. Downtime history and work orders sit in one system, and work is prioritized by what it does to production, so the press holding up a ship date gets the technician first. Ice Industries, a metal stamper with five plants in the US and Mexico, uses Maintenance to see what its machines need and when they need it.
In a press shop, the micro-stop, the late order and the overtime bill are usually the same event. Only the paperwork splits them up.
The Part Has To Pass
First-piece checks, in-process inspections and final inspections run on any device, with photos and timestamps, against the part number and the shift. Quality & Compliance controls specs and documents in one workspace, sends a failed check to CAPA or 8D linked to the product and batch, and tracks FPY, PPM and closures. When a customer or an ISO 9001 auditor asks for evidence, the records are already there.
The Crew Has To Go Home Safe
Presses, brakes, lasers and welding cells carry real hazards, and safety paperwork tends to live in a binder nobody opens until something happens. Nulogy handles incident reporting, safety audits, asset checks and hazard management on the same operating system as production and quality. McCloskey International, a crushing and screening equipment manufacturer, replaced paper audits with Nulogy and cut stock count time by 60%.
The Ship Date Has To Hold
When counts come off the machine instead of a clipboard, the schedule is built on what the presses actually produce, not what they produced on a good day. Planners see real capacity by line, so the overtime decision is made on Tuesday instead of Friday night. Ice Industries reached 100% accuracy on its physical count, down to the part and the pound of steel, and eliminated $100K of inventory write-offs in a single cycle.
Six moments, one record. The press that stopped, the die that changed, the check that passed and the order that shipped are the same data, not four reports somebody compiles on Monday.
Nulogy Intelligence
Nora Answers Questions About Your Presses
Nora is the AI assistant built into Smart Factory and Maintenance. For press shops and fabricators running Smart Factory, Nora answers in plain English from what actually happened on the floor: counts, stops, changeovers and maintenance history, not a report somebody built on Friday.
Start Where You Are
What Kind of Metal Work You Do
Some manufacturers run high-volume presses on long production runs. Others cut, bend and weld a different job every day. Plenty of plants do both. The operating system is the same; the first module isn't.
We Run Presses
Stamping plants running progressive, transfer and blanking presses on long runs, judged on uptime, scrap, PPM and on-time delivery.
- Smart Factory: OEE, micro-stops and changeover time
- Maintenance: condition and usage-based work orders
- Quality & Compliance: first-piece checks, CAPA and PPM
- EHS: press safety audits and incident reporting
We Fabricate
Fabricators cutting, forming, welding and assembling in high mix and short runs, judged on quoted lead times and getting the job out the door right the first time.
- Smart Factory: live status by cell and shift
- Smart Factory: real capacity for scheduling and quoting
- Quality & Compliance: inspections with photos, ISO 9001 records
- EHS: hazard management and safety audits
Supplying parts to automotive OEMs? Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers carry IATF 16949, PPAP and sub-tier supplier demands on top of the press work.
See Automotive →Proof
What Nulogy Has Done for Metal Plants
Fewer Micro-Stoppages
H&T Waterbury replaced manual data entry with Smart Factory, cut micro-stoppages by 71% and eliminated nine hours of downtime every week.
Smart Factory · Precision metal components
Saved in Production and Labor Costs
Lincoln Manufacturing replaced pen-and-paper downtime tracking with Smart Factory and saved more than $100K, including $75K from 15 minutes of machine time saved per operator.
Smart Factory · Metal stamping
Inventory Write-Offs Eliminated
Ice Industries runs five stamping plants on the same numbers, reached 100% accuracy on its physical count and eliminated $100K of write-offs in a single cycle.
Smart Factory · Maintenance · Metal stamping
“Smart Factory helped us realize that our small micro stoppage problem was actually a bigger problem than we anticipated.”
Matt Hill, Operations Improvement Coordinator, H&T WaterburyStandards and Machines
Smart Factory Fits the Floor You Already Have
Smart Factory connects to old and new equipment, and Quality & Compliance and EHS keep the records your customers and auditors ask for.
Questions We Get
Before You Book Anything
Our presses are decades old. Can Smart Factory still get data off them?
Yes. Smart Factory connects through a direct PLC connection where there is one, a Banner wireless sensor where there is not, or an Advantech gateway. If a press makes parts, there is a way to count them.
We already track downtime on a whiteboard. What changes?
The whiteboard catches the long stops and misses the short ones. Smart Factory counts every stop off the machine and asks the operator for a reason, which is how H&T Waterbury found its micro-stoppage problem was bigger than the team anticipated.
Can Smart Factory show us where changeover time goes?
Yes. Operators code each stop with a reason, so die changes and coil changes show up as their own downtime by press, part and shift. You can see which changeovers run long and whether an improvement is holding.
Does Quality & Compliance support ISO 9001?
Quality & Compliance runs the daily work an ISO 9001 system depends on: controlled specs and documents, inspections with evidence, and issues to CAPA or 8D with owners. FPY, PPM and closures are tracked in the same workspace, so audit evidence is ready when the auditor asks.
Do we have to buy the whole operating system at once?
No. Most press shops start with Smart Factory to see where time goes, then add Maintenance, Quality & Compliance or EHS. Because the modules share the same machines, parts and shifts, the next one is a configuration rather than an integration project.
What does a demo look like?
Bring the press or cell that costs you the most overtime. We will show you what Smart Factory would show you about it, and what Smart Factory would not.
Bring Us Your Hardest Press
Tell us what is costing you the most right now: the micro-stops nobody logs, the die change that always runs long, the Saturday shift to make the ship date. We will show you what Smart Factory does about it, and what Smart Factory does not.