BrickHouse / Manufacturing
Most plants can tell you how long a machine was stopped. Very few can tell you how much of that was waiting for someone to find out.
The gap
An operator notices, leaves the line, finds a supervisor, who radios maintenance, who is mid-job on another machine. Four handoffs, none logged, before anyone who can fix it has heard. Then the work order gets created — after all of that — so even your own records understate the delay.
Why now
Around 80% of US manufacturing facilities still run with no automation at all, while the overwhelming majority of manufacturers say smart operations will decide competitiveness over the next three years.
That gap is the opportunity, and it closes from the cheap end first.
You don’t need a connected factory to fix this. You need the alert that already exists to reach a phone. A fraction of the cost of an automation project, paid back on the first avoided hour.
Where night shift usually loses. In most plants we look at, the response gap on nights is several times the day-shift figure — because the person who can fix it isn’t in the building and nobody wants to make the call. That single number often justifies the whole project.
Where we start
The Systems Inventory uses your existing maintenance records and three short interviews. If the numbers don’t justify doing anything, we’ll tell you that and you’ll have spent nothing further.
One conversation, no deck. Describe it in plain language and we will tell you honestly whether it is a tooling fix, a process fix, or something you should not spend money on at all.
Tell us what’s broken