Automotive Grade

JIT Production Withoutthe JIT Panic.

Real-time supplier visibility, quality gate monitoring, and OEE optimization that so you catch supply gaps and quality issues before they stop the line.

Improved OEE
JIT visibility
Quality gate integration

The Challenge

What happens when a supplier truck is 45 minutes late

JIT Surprises Kill Your Schedule

Your supplier's truck is late. Or early. Either way, your production schedule just became a suggestion. By the time you know, it's too late to adjust.

$5K+ per minute of line stoppage

Quality Gates Are Black Boxes

How many units passed Station 47 in the last hour? Nobody knows without walking the floor. Quality issues propagate downstream before detection.

Rework costs and warranty claims

OEE Is a Monthly Report, Not Reality

You calculate OEE after the fact. By then, the performance losses, micro-stoppages, and quality issues that caused it are ancient history.

Lost improvement opportunities

Supplier Coordination Is Chaotic

12 suppliers, 47 components, 3 shifts. Coordinating incoming materials with production schedules requires a war room and constant phone calls.

Inventory buffers and expediting costs

The Difference

Before and after Sandhed

Before

Supplier late = line down

With Sandhed

See supplier status before arrival

Before

Walk the floor to check quality gates

With Sandhed

Real-time quality gate visualization

Before

Monthly OEE reports

With Sandhed

Live OEE per station and line

Before

Phone calls to coordinate suppliers

With Sandhed

Visual supplier dock scheduling

Capabilities

Built for Automotive

Purpose-built features that address your industry's specific challenges.

JIT Production Monitoring

Takt time tracking, buffer levels, and line balance visualization in real-time.

Live takt status

Quality Gate Visualization

Pass/fail rates, defect patterns, and quality trends per station.

Real-time quality

Supplier Dock Visibility

Incoming material status, ETA tracking, and dock scheduling in one view.

Full inbound visibility

Real-Time OEE

Availability, performance, and quality calculated live per station, line, and plant.

Continuous OEE

Andon Integration

Andon calls visualized in 3D with response time tracking and escalation.

Instant visibility

Line Balance Optimization

Identify bottlenecks and rebalance work with visual cycle time analysis.

Bottleneck detection

Proven Results

Numbers That Matter to Your P&L

0

OEE performance

0

Annual savings

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Quality escapes

0 hrs

Setup time (not months)

Based on platform capabilities and industry benchmarks.

Real-World Scenarios

A Day in the Life with Sandhed

Here's what a typical day looks like with Sandhed running.

6:15 AM

Adjusting the build sequence before a late truck arrives

Supplier truck delayed by 45 minutes. But you knew at 5:30 because Sandhed showed the truck status. You adjusted the build sequence, pulled from safety stock for 3 part numbers, and kept the line running.

10:30 AM

Catching a fail-rate spike at Station 12

Station 12 fail rate jumps from 2% to 8% in 15 minutes. Sandhed flags it immediately. Root cause: tool wear on the previous station. You swap the tool before it becomes a batch problem. 200 units saved from rework.

2:00 PM

Finding micro-stoppages hiding in the shift change

Your shift supervisor spots that Line 3's OEE dropped 5% this week. He drills into Sandhed, sees micro-stoppages clustering at Station 7 between 10-11 AM. Turns out, that's when material handlers rotate shifts. Quick process change, OEE back up.

Integrations

Connects to Your Automotive Ecosystem

Sandhed connects to your existing systems via industry-standard protocols.

MES Systems

Standard MES protocolsCustom integrations

ERP

Standard ERP protocolsREST API connectivity

Industrial PLCs

Allen-Bradley compatibleS7 compatibleVarious via OPC UA

Quality

Quality management systems

Protocols

OPC UAMQTTREST APIEtherNet/IP

Don't see your system? We support 150+ industrial protocols via our gateway integrations.

Success Story

Real Results from Real Operations

We went from firefighting daily JIT crises to preventing them entirely. Our OEM scorecard improved significantly in one quarter.

Company Type

Tier 1 Automotive Supplier

Employees

1,200

Lines monitored

12 assembly lines

Improved

OEE performance

Reduced

quality escapes

Fewer

JIT-related line stoppages

See how Sandhed works with your assembly lines

See how Sandhed would work with your assembly lines, quality systems, and supplier network. We'll model your actual plant.

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