Plant manager
“Why did we lose output this week, and will it happen again?”
- Downtime by asset and cause, not by shift note.
- Early warnings on machines drifting out of normal.
- One view of availability across lines and sites.
Manufacturing & Industry
Production stops for reasons that were visible hours earlier.
Machines, utilities and mobile plant reporting condition before they stop.
- Who we work with
- Plant, maintenance and energy teams
- Typical estate
- Production lines, utilities and mobile plant
- Where it starts
- One line or critical utility
/ The context /
Why this sector, why now.
Plants run on equipment that warns before it fails, and on maintenance schedules built around dates rather than condition. Money goes on servicing healthy machines while output is lost to the one that was drifting.
Connecting machines, utilities and mobile plant turns unplanned downtime into planned work, and gives a plant manager a defensible number for a problem now described with adjectives.
- 01Localisation raises the bar
The National Industrial Development and Logistics Program is pushing more production into the Kingdom, and new plants are expected to run reliably from the first year.
- 02Energy is no longer free
Energy pricing reform has made consumption a real line in the plant budget, so compressed air, chillers and idle running show up in the cost per unit.
- 03Skilled maintenance is scarce
Experienced technicians are hard to find and harder to keep, so their time has to go to machines that need attention rather than routine checks.
/ The challenges /
What the operation is up against.
01
Maintenance runs on the calendar
Assets are serviced on fixed dates regardless of condition, so healthy machines are opened up while the one drifting out of tolerance waits for its slot.
02
Downtime is described, not measured
Stoppages are logged by shift in notebooks or spreadsheets, so nobody can say what caused the last month of lost output.
03
PLC data stays on the floor
Controllers already hold useful signals, but they sit on isolated SCADA screens where engineering and management never see them.
04
Utilities waste goes unnoticed
Leaking air lines, oversized chillers and equipment left running overnight cost money every hour. Without metering by area, the waste has no owner.
/ Where it shows up /
The solutions that matter here.
Each one runs on the same foundation, so the second costs a fraction of the first.
/ What we connect /
The whole estate, on one record.
Whatever the brand, protocol or supplier, joined to the systems that already run the business.
On the line
- Motors and gearboxes
- Pumps and fans
- Conveyors
- Presses and moulding machines
- PLCs and drives
Plant utilities
- Compressors
- Chillers and cooling towers
- Boilers
- Sub-metering by area
- Power quality
Around the site
- Forklifts and mobile plant
- Warehouse environment
- Tools and critical spares
- Maintenance crews
Systems of record
- SCADA and historians
- ERP
- CMMS
- Quality systems
/ By role /
One platform. Four different questions answered.
Maintenance lead
“Which machines actually need my team this week?”
- Condition alerts on vibration, temperature and current.
- Work orders raised with the evidence attached.
- Fewer routine checks on equipment running well.
Energy manager
“Where is our energy going when the line is not running?”
- Consumption by area, asset and shift.
- Out-of-hours and idle running flagged automatically.
- Savings tracked against a measured baseline.
Finance director
“What is unplanned downtime costing us, in a number I can defend?”
- Lost production hours tied to specific assets.
- Maintenance spend compared against condition and outcome.
- A clear case for where capital should go next.
/ How we engage /
From first conversation to the whole estate.
- 1
Walk the plant
We walk the floor with maintenance and production, agree the critical assets, and check what PLC, SCADA and metering data exists.
- 2
Instrument one line
Sensors go in where needed, existing controllers are read where possible, and a baseline is built per critical asset.
- 3
Turn alerts into work
Alerts feed maintenance workflows so drift becomes a planned job, and stoppages and savings are reviewed against the baseline.
- 4
Extend across the site
Further lines, utilities and sites join, ERP and CMMS are connected, and the plant runs the dashboards itself.
/ Compliance /
The record the regulator asks for, produced as you operate.
Confirm the exact format your authority requires and we map the export to it.
- 01Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources
Production, energy and equipment records are structured to support the operational reporting industrial licence holders are asked to maintain.
- 02SASO product standards
Process and environmental conditions can be logged continuously, designed to support the quality records manufacturers keep against SASO product standards.
- 03NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls
Operational technology is connected through segmented, read-only paths with logged access, designed to support alignment with the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls.
/ Security & sovereignty /
Where your data lives, and who can reach it.
- In-Kingdom residency
- Built to national controls
- Isolated by tenant
- Your cloud or site
/ Built on IoT Cube /
Products already working in this sector.
TEFCO
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Gorex
On-demand car care and vehicle maintenance, booked in a few taps at a chosen time and place.
Humify
AI assisted HR for the GCC: attendance, payroll, leave, requests, recruitment and the whole employee lifecycle.
/ Questions /
Frequently asked.
No. IoT Cube sits alongside existing SCADA and historians and reads the signals you already have. Sensors go in only where the data does not exist, such as vibration on older machines.
/ Other industries /
The same foundation, a different estate.
Talk to someone who knows manufacturing & industry.
We will walk through your estate, the systems around it and where connecting it pays for itself first.