Machine Data
Get the numbers straight from the machines.
Run, idle and stop signals, counts and downtime reasons captured from old and new machines as they happen.
The Leak Assessment: 30 minutes, and a written plan within 48 hours, whether or not you hire us.
- Monthly plans: Your first fix goes live on the date in your written plan, or the extra hours are on us.
- Projects: Your price is fixed in writing. If delivery runs late because of us, you don't pay a cent more.
Included
- Fixed price in writing
- Written plan in 48 h
- No setup fee
- You own everything
Industry data · downtime
What does unplanned downtime cost manufacturers?
The world’s 500 biggest companies lose almost $1.4 trillion a year to it, about 11% of revenue. A large heavy-industry plant loses about $59 million a year to unplanned downtime.
- 11% of revenue
- $1.4 trillion a year
- Siemens, 2024
Supervisor asks
Why is line 2 standing idle?
- Reason
- Waiting for material
- Flagged
- 10:22 · to stores
- Next job
- Job 4480 · 120 pcs
- Idle 18 min
- Alert sent
- Next job queued
Example screen · sample data · Cluxn Floor status
Cluxn captures machine data for manufacturers with 50–500 employees: live machine status, production counts and downtime reasons, from sensors on older machines or quick tablet entries. You see which machines run, which stand idle and why. A first group of machines typically takes 8–10 weeks, at a fixed price in writing after a 30-minute Leak Assessment.
Problems Machine Data fixes
What it's costing you.
Machine status is known only by walking the floor.
An idle machine nobody notices loses output every hour it stands still.
Supervisor asks
Why is line 2 standing idle?
- Reason
- Waiting for material
- Flagged
- 10:22 · to stores
- Next job
- Job 4480 · 120 pcs
- Idle 18 min
- Alert sent
- Next job queued
Example screen · sample data · Cluxn Floor status
Output is written on paper shift sheets.
Counts written by hand drift from reality, so planning runs on wrong figures.
Accounts asks
Where is job 4471 right now?
- Stage
- Bending · op 2 of 3
- Machine
- Press brake 2
- Last update
- 11:48 · by operator
- Promised
- Thu 14:00
- Job 4471
- Op 2 of 3
- No call to the floor
Example screen · sample data · Cluxn Job tracker
Stops are not recorded with a reason.
Without reasons, the biggest cause of downtime never gets fixed.
Industry data · maintenance
How much capacity do poor maintenance habits cost a plant?
Between 5% and 20% of its productive capacity, and unplanned downtime costs industrial manufacturers about $50 billion a year.
- 5–20% of capacity
- $50 billion a year
- Deloitte
Supervisor asks
Why is line 2 standing idle?
- Reason
- Waiting for material
- Flagged
- 10:22 · to stores
- Next job
- Job 4480 · 120 pcs
- Idle 18 min
- Alert sent
- Next job queued
Example screen · sample data · Cluxn Floor status
What's included in Machine Data
What you get.
Live Machine Status
Running, idle or stopped, visible from a desk or phone.
Production Counts
Output captured from the machine or a quick tablet entry.
Downtime Reasons
Operators pick why a machine stopped in one tap.
Feeds Your Dashboards
The captured data flows into your ERP, dashboards and alerts.
How we design Machine Data
Designed with the people who will use it.
Design starts in week one, before any code. Software people avoid is the most expensive kind.
Watch the work first
We sit with the operators, sales staff or dealers who will use it, and time how the job is done today.
Design around the job
Each screen follows one person’s real task, in the order they do it, with fewer fields and fewer clicks.
Test a prototype before code
A clickable prototype goes in front of real users. What confuses them is fixed before any code is written.
One consistent look
Every screen uses the same components, so new features ship fast and nobody relearns the system.
Machine Data timeline
The Leak-First Method for machine data
A typical timeline to a working result. Yours is set in the written plan for your problem, so it can run shorter or longer.
01
Floor Research & Design
Weeks 1–2
02
Capture Setup
Weeks 3–5
03
Dashboards & Alerts
Weeks 6–8
04
Rollout & Refine
Weeks 9–10
Machine Data: Cluxn vs the alternatives
Not the usual choice.
Manual Spreadsheets Reports compiled by hand, always at least a day behind reality. | Enterprise BI platforms Built for large enterprise data teams, not a single plant. | Cluxn RecommendedPurpose-built automation and dashboards connected directly to your real data. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for your operation | |||
| Support after go-live | |||
| Fixed, predictable timeline | |||
| No lock-in — you keep ownership |
Who Machine Data is for
Good fit?
Industries We Serve
Company Size
Manufacturers running machines on shifts
Good Fit If
- —You learn about idle machines from a floor walk or a phone call
- —Output is counted on paper shift sheets
- —The same breakdowns keep coming back with no record of why
Before you decide
Four worries, answered.
“We tried software before and nobody used it.”
Built around your floor, with operators trained on their own screens before go-live.
“Projects run late and cost more.”
Fixed scope and price in writing, and weekly demos.
“The vendor disappears or holds our data.”
You own the code, logins and data, and there is a written exit clause.
“We can't manage developers.”
One named engineer and a weekly call.
Machine Data FAQs
Common questions.
No. Older machines can be fitted with simple sensors, and where that does not make sense, operators log counts and stops on a tablet.
Step 1 of The Leak-First Method
Ready to see it on your floor?
We will show you the first fix and what it costs. No pitch.
The Leak Assessment: 30 minutes, and a written plan within 48 hours, whether or not you hire us.
Find the leak
30-minute Leak Assessment
Get the plan
Tasks and a fixed price in writing within 48 hours
Fix it first
First working version in about 4 weeks
Train and hand over
Your team trained; code, docs and logins are yours
Next leak
Support, or the next fix on a monthly plan
Every project includes
- 30-minute Leak Assessment
- Written plan within 48 hours
- Fixed scope and price in writing
- Weekly demos
- Your team trained before go-live
- Code, documents and logins handed over
- Support after go-live
- Written exit clause, no license fees