Downtime Prevention

Stop Finding Out Afterthe Line Already Stopped

Most manufacturers discover downtime after it costs them. Sandhed gives you the visibility to catch equipment issues before they shut down production.

The Problem

Where Things Break Down

When a machine goes down unexpectedly, the cost goes beyond lost output. Maintenance scrambles. Downstream stations starve. Your production schedule is suddenly fiction. Traditional systems tell you after a machine fails. They can't warn you when one's about to. That gap costs you real money.

Reactive maintenance burns cash

By the time the operator radios in, you have already lost production. Emergency repairs cost 3-5x more than planned maintenance, and stall every process downstream.

3-5x higher repair costs vs. planned maintenance

Equipment data sits in silos

Your PLC data, vibration logs, and maintenance records live in separate systems. Spotting a failure pattern means pulling data from three different places and manually comparing them.

Hours of manual data correlation per incident

No early warning system exists

Temperature creeping up, vibration increasing, cycle times drifting. These signals show up days before a failure, but your team can't see them because the data lives in separate systems.

Missed signals that could prevent shutdowns

Our Approach

What Sandhed Does Differently

Sandhed connects to your existing PLCs and sensors via OPC UA and MQTT, then maps equipment health data onto your 3D floor plan in real time. You see vibration trends, temperature drift, and cycle time anomalies as color-coded overlays on actual machine locations. When readings cross your thresholds, alerts go to the right person before the line stops.

Real-Time Equipment Health

PLC and sensor data mapped to your 3D floor plan. See machine status, vibration levels, and temperature readings as color-coded overlays on actual equipment locations.

Threshold-Based Alerts

Set warning levels for any parameter. When vibration, temperature, or cycle times drift past your limits, the right person gets notified through their preferred channel.

Trend Visualization

Historical overlays show how equipment parameters change over time. Spot gradual degradation before it reaches the failure point.

Maintenance Coordination

When an alert fires, your maintenance team sees the affected equipment highlighted on the floor plan with the relevant sensor data already pulled up.

Quick Assessment

How Exposed Is Your Facility?

Downtime Risk Assessment

Answer 5 questions to get a personalized score and recommendations.

How often does your facility experience unplanned equipment shutdowns?
What is the approximate cost of one hour of unplanned downtime on your main production line?
How do you currently monitor equipment health?

Industry Applications

Built for Your Industry

Downtime Prevention for Manufacturing

Real-time equipment health monitoring mapped to your production floor. Catch spindle wear, motor stress, and cooling failures before they stop your line.

Manufacturing

Downtime Prevention for Automotive

Keep assembly lines running with real-time equipment monitoring. Catch quality gate failures and station degradation before they cascade across your takt time.

Automotive

Downtime Prevention for Food & Beverage

Protect production runs and product quality with real-time monitoring of packaging lines, mixers, and temperature-critical equipment.

Food & Beverage

Expected Outcomes

Results You Can Measure

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Less unplanned downtime

Reduction in unplanned stops

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Earlier warning time

Average advance notice before failure

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Faster root cause analysis

Reduction in diagnosis time

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Setup time

From floor plan to live monitoring

Based on platform capabilities and industry benchmarks. Results vary by facility.

FAQ

Common Questions

Sandhed connects to your PLCs and IoT sensors to monitor vibration, temperature, cycle times, and other parameters in real time. When readings start trending outside normal ranges, the system triggers alerts before the equipment actually fails. You set custom thresholds based on your equipment. More transparent and controllable than black-box AI.

Related Solutions

OEE Improvement

Most manufacturers know their OEE score. Few can point to the exact machine, shift, or station dragging it down. Sandhed maps availability, performance, and quality data onto your floor plan so you can see where OEE drops and why.

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Maintenance Management

Maintenance teams lose hours tracking down service records, chasing overdue tasks, and figuring out what was done last time. Sandhed puts every work order, service record, and maintenance schedule on your 3D floor plan where you can see it.

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Custom Dashboards & KPI Views

Your factory generates thousands of data points every hour. Sandhed puts them on drag-and-drop dashboards tied to your 3D floor plan, so every role sees exactly what they need.

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Related Resources

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Why Does My Production Line Keep Stopping?

Most unplanned stops come from a short list of causes that compound each other. Sensor blind spots, delayed maintenance response, equipment running past rated cycles, power quality events, raw material drift, PLC faults, and shift-change errors account for the majority of lost production time. Fixing them requires data correlation, not more dashboards.

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How to Reduce Equipment Downtime: 8 Strategies Ranked by Impact

Reducing equipment downtime starts with knowing where you're losing time, not with buying technology. The eight strategies below are ranked by how much downtime they typically eliminate in the first year. The top three are organizational fixes that cost almost nothing. The rest require incremental investment but build on each other.

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How to Monitor a Factory Floor in Real Time

Real-time factory monitoring means having sensor data from machines, environment, and process parameters available within seconds, not hours. It starts with choosing the right sensors for your top failure modes, runs through an edge-to-cloud architecture that handles the data volume, and works only if the alert design respects your operators' attention.

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See How It Works With Your Equipment

We will model your actual floor plan and show you how Sandhed monitors your specific equipment. No generic demo.