Your shop floor speaks every second. Nobody's listening.
Machines, operators and processes generate signal all day. It dies in spreadsheets, in systems that don't talk to each other, and in the heads of people who walk out at shift change. We find where your operation loses that signal, then build the systems that keep it.
Why OrbitX
No handoff, start to finish
The people who map your floor are the people who write the integration that fixes it.
Operators and engineers
Plant-floor experience and shipped production systems, sitting in the same room.
We stay until it sticks
Until supervisors run the shift from the system rather than the spreadsheet.
It was never a technology problem.
Manufacturers don't fail at transformation because the software doesn't exist. They fail because a consultancy hands over a roadmap, a vendor hands over a license, and nobody owns what happens on the floor in between. The industry has a name for where that ends: pilot purgatory.
Pilots that never scale
A dashboard works beautifully on one line, in one plant. Then the sponsor moves on, the budget closes, and it never reaches the others. The pilot wasn't wrong. Nobody planned the rollout.
Advice divorced from delivery
Strategy firms write the plan. Vendors build to spec. Neither one owns whether it holds at two in the morning when the line stops — and that seam is where the value goes.
Systems the floor won't use
Technically flawless software, rejected by the operators expected to run it. Adoption isn't training you bolt on at the end. It's a design constraint from the first sketch.
The same people who walk your floor build what comes next.
Most firms in this market are structured as a handoff. A partner sells the engagement. A delivery team you have never met executes it. By the time anything reaches the floor, the person who actually understood your operation is three projects away.
OrbitX is one senior team. The engineer who maps your data flows writes the integration. The person who spent a week on your floor is in the room at go-live. Operators and software engineers in the same conversation, not two departments passing documents across a wall.
Nobody has to be re-briefed. Context doesn't degrade through a handoff, because there isn't one. And when something doesn't work on the floor, the people who hear about it are the people who designed it — which changes what we design.
Our own solution
Where what we have already built fits your process, licensed and configured against how your plant actually runs.
A platform from the market
Where something else fits better, we implement and configure it — against your routing and shift pattern, not its demo script.
Built from scratch
Where the process is genuinely yours and no product models it, bespoke applications on a data platform we design.
No software at all
When the honest answer is that a process fix costs less than a system, that is the answer you get.
Everything from the diagnosis to the deployment.
Five connected areas. Most firms sit on one side of the line — they advise, or they build. We are structured to do both, which is why our recommendations survive contact with the shop floor.
Operations & Transformation Consulting
Operations audit, digital maturity assessment, a costed transformation roadmap, technology selection scored on your process and build-versus-buy calls.
Explore →Shop Floor Digitization
Ten operating functions digitized into one connected layer — production, quality, maintenance, safety, utilities, traceability, stores, suppliers, workforce and control tower.
Explore →Machine Connectivity & Integration
PLCs, SCADA, sensors, meters and edge gateways connected and normalized — then integrated with ERP, MES and QMS so plans and actuals finally reconcile.
Explore →Applied AI, Data & Custom Software
Predictive maintenance and quality models where the data genuinely supports them, a unified data platform underneath, and bespoke applications for the process no product covers.
Explore →Adoption, Support & Scale
Operator training, daily management redesign, benefit tracking, managed support, and the rollout playbook that gets a working pilot past the first plant.
Explore →See the full picture
How the five areas connect, which engagement fits where you are, and what we deliver that a platform vendor structurally cannot.
All capabilities →One source of truth. Every function in orbit around it.
Your plant already runs production, quality, maintenance, safety, stores and utilities. The problem is that each one keeps its own version of the truth. We put all ten in orbit around a single operational core, then connect that core to the systems your business already runs on.
Four phases. One accountable team.
We don't hand off between diagnosis and delivery, because that handoff is exactly where transformation programs die. The same team that finds the problem builds the fix and stays until the floor is using it.
Ground — see the floor as it really is
We spend time on your floor and inside your systems. We map how work actually happens versus how the SOP says it does, and identify every point where data stops moving.
Map — a roadmap with a business case
What to fix first, what to build versus configure versus buy, what it costs, and what each phase returns. Prioritized by impact on your operation, not by what is easiest to sell you.
Build — engineered for your floor
Machine connectivity, a unified data layer, and digitized workflows across every function — connected into your existing ERP and MES rather than replacing them.
Sustain — until the floor owns it
Go-live is the midpoint. We train supervisors and operators, tune against real usage, prove the numbers moved, and stay on as your operation changes.
The gaps are always in the same four places.
Every plant is different. The places where signal dies are not. These are what we look for first, and what a Connected Floor Audit hands back to you.
The number nobody can source
Every plant has an OEE figure in a monthly review deck. Ask three people how it was calculated and you get three answers. We trace it back to the machine, or establish that it was never there.
The handover that lives in a notebook
Shift-to-shift knowledge that moves verbally, in a diary, or not at all. When the supervisor who knew the line retires, it leaves the building with them.
The system that was bought and never used
An MES module, a quality package, a maintenance tool — licensed, configured, abandoned. We find out why before anyone proposes buying another.
The machines nobody asked
Equipment the vendor said couldn't be connected. Usually it can — through a retrofit sensor, a dry contact, or an output port nobody tried.
Start with the audit, not the software.
A fixed-scope engagement. We walk your floor, map where data breaks down, and hand you a costed roadmap — whether or not you build any of it with us.