Know what every machine is doing — right now, from anywhere
Live status, downtime, and OEE for every machine on your floor — CNC and PLC-driven alike, from milling and turning to die casting. See it on the office screen, the shop-floor TV, or your phone.
The invisible leak
Forty-five minutes a machine, every day — and nobody writes it down.
₹45 lakh
That’s what a 15-machine floor leaks in a year at ₹1,200 an hour. It never shows up on a report, because nothing recorded it — the stops were too short to log and too frequent to remember.
Illustrative calculation, not a customer result: 15 machines × 45 unplanned min/day × ₹1,200/machine-hour × 330 working days.
Why nothing has worked yet
You have probably tried to fix this twice already
The monitor that came with the machine
Covers one brand, and usually only the machines bought new. Your 1996 lathe and your 2019 machining centre never appear on the same screen.
Clipboards and Excel
Depends on someone writing down the stop that just cost you twenty minutes. It survives a week after the audit, then quietly dies.
An imported platform
Priced in dollars, sold in modules, and installed by nobody within a thousand kilometres. The pilot stalls at the network survey.
One screen for the whole floor — every brand, every age.
What you get
One screen for the whole floor
The whole floor, live
Every machine, running or stopped, on one screen — office, shop-floor TV, or your phone.
9/15
- 9 Running
- 3 Needs attention
- 2 Down
- 1 Offline
Why machines stop
Stops detected automatically and named by your operators in two taps. The losses rank themselves.
Top losses · last 30 days
- Tool change41h
- No operator28h
- Material wait19h
- Setup12h
Reports supervisors use
Shift summaries and OEE delivered to WhatsApp at shift end — no logins to chase.
79.4%
OEE, last 8 shifts
Every brand, every age
A 1996 lathe and a 2019 machining centre on the same screen, reading the same way.
- LATHE-01199674%
- VMC-04200881%
- HMC-02201988%
Product simulation · illustrative figures, not customer data
See the whole floor
Quiet when it runs, loud when it doesn’t
Healthy machines stay calm and the one that needs you becomes impossible to miss — with the full shift timeline behind every tile. You stop walking the floor to find out what is happening on it.
Know why
Every stop named, and ranked by what it costs you
Stops are detected automatically — operators add the reason in two taps on the shop-floor tablet, and the loss Pareto updates live. By Monday you know which half-hour to attack, not just that the week was bad. When a machine stays down, the alert lands on WhatsApp.
Deployment
Live in a day. We connect the machines; you just log in.
You don’t install anything. Our engineers survey the site, fit a gateway on your plant network, connect every machine, and train your team — dashboards are live in the cloud before we leave. Plants with larger fleets or strict data policies can have the full system deployed on-premise instead.
- 1
Site survey
We map your machines, controllers, and network — and confirm connectivity for every unit.
- 2
Install day
Gateway fitted, machines connected, cloud dashboards live on the shop floor.
- 3
Operators trained
Your team runs it from day one — supervisors on the dashboard, operators on the tablet.
No sensors to retrofit, no rewiring, no production stopped to install anything. A compact gateway goes on your plant network and reads each machine directly — which is why a floor of mixed makes and vintages can go live in a single visit.
Book a demoEvery brand, every age
The old machines are the ones losing you money
They are also the ones every other system skips. ThingConnect reads each machine in its own language, so the 1996 lathe and the 2019 machining centre appear on one screen, in one format, with the same depth behind them.
74%
OEE · Running
81%
OEE · Running
88%
OEE · Running
Not just “stopped”
Run, idle, alarm, and offline read from the machine itself — not guessed from a current clamp that only knows the power is on.
Alarms in plain language
Alarm codes captured live and explained, so a supervisor doesn’t need the manual — or the one engineer who remembers what 414 means.
Counts nobody types in
Part counts, programs, and cycle data come off the machine directly. No register at the end of the shift, nothing to dispute the next morning.
Tell us what your floor runs when you book a demo — we confirm every machine, by name, in the site survey before you commit to anything.
The math
Recover four minutes a machine a day and it has paid for itself
ThingConnect is ₹79 per machine per day — everything included, no modules, no per-user licences. That is 8.8% of what one unwatched machine leaks in a day, and less than half an OEE point.
Over a year, ThingConnect costs 9.7% of what the same floor loses to stops nobody recorded.
Start with one line
You don’t have to commit the plant to find out. Run a pilot on a single line and judge it on criteria we agree in writing before anyone installs anything.
- 60 days, one line, up to 10 machines
- ₹50,000 fixed — fully creditable against your subscription
- Success criteria agreed in writing before install
- Local engineers, same-day support visits
Illustrative calculation, not a customer result: 15 machines × 45 unplanned min/day × ₹1,200/machine-hour × 330 working days, against list pricing. Your figures will differ — the calculator uses your own.
Hardware
Already have RS485 or Modbus devices on the floor?
Our RS485 gateways bridge legacy serial devices — meters, drives, sensors — onto Ethernet or WiFi, so they show up as Modbus TCP or MQTT anywhere on your network. Made in India, sold direct.
RS485 to Ethernet Converter
Modbus RTU ⇄ TCP over 10 Mbps Ethernet. ₹2,500.
RS485 to WiFi Converter
Wireless, with native MQTT for cloud platforms. ₹3,000.
Questions plants ask us
Who installs ThingConnect?
Our engineers do — site survey, server deployment, machine connections, and operator training. You don't install anything yourself; that's the point of a guided deployment.
Does our production data leave the plant?
Machine data flows encrypted from the gateway in your plant to your ThingConnect cloud workspace, visible only to your accounts and exportable anytime. The gateway keeps collecting during internet outages and syncs when the connection returns. If policy requires everything inside your firewall, an on-premise enterprise deployment is available for larger fleets.
Which machines and controllers can it monitor?
CNC machines across the major controller brands found on Indian shop floors, plus PLC-driven machines such as die casting cells and presses. Tell us what your floor runs when you book a demo and we confirm connectivity machine-by-machine during the site survey.
How long until dashboards are live?
For most plants, dashboards are live on install day — the site survey beforehand is what makes that possible. From first call to a running pilot is typically a few weeks, driven mostly by your schedule.
How is it priced?
₹79 per machine per day on an annual subscription, plus a one-time deployment fee. Everything is included at that price — every dashboard and report, the gateway, and local support. There are no per-user licences, so operators, supervisors, TVs, and tablets cost nothing extra, and larger fleets step down from there.
What happens if the pilot doesn't deliver?
We agree the success criteria in writing before anyone installs anything — typically that at least 90% of stops on the pilot line get classified. The ₹50,000 pilot fee is fully creditable against your subscription if you continue. If we miss the criteria, you keep a written report of exactly what your floor is losing and you are under no obligation to go ahead.
Find out what your floor is actually losing
Thirty minutes on a call is enough to see ThingConnect running on machines like yours and get an indicative number for your plant. If it looks right, we survey your site before you commit to anything.
No obligation, and nothing to install before you decide.