Hidden Factory

Tap into your Hidden Factory, Add to your Bottom Line

How much capacity is left untapped in your factory? Chances are, you’ve built a budget based on a number that is far less than what you actually have the ability to produce. That’s because you must account for unexpected downtime, accidents, quality issues, and routine maintenance periods that require you to shut down production. What if you could tap into that, producing more product with the resources you already have and operating more efficiently than before?

That is the Hidden Factory, and Digital Transformation with Tri Tech is your key to unlocking it.

Through the process of accessing, organizing and historizing real-time data from your operations into a single source of truth, you gain visibility into your operations, capabilities for analytical goals like ML/AI to gain insights on inefficiencies, closing the loop with existing business systems for recipe, quality, production and schedules (to name a few) to maximize production and agility.

The Benefits of Unlocking the Hidden Factory

There are several ways discovering your Hidden Factory can benefit your company. A few examples include:

Prescriptive Maintenance

Rather than an arbitrary maintenance shut-down for equipment and production lines (preventative), and rather than following a simple trend (predictive), monitor data of device and systems to be Prescriptive. Gain insights on the massive number of samples of the overall system can provide and utilize Machine Learning algorithms to prescribe the downtime as opposed to shutting down “just because”. The data produced by the devices, sensors and gauges on your machines will indicate when a part may be in need of replacement or repair and over time, machine learning will detect patterns to alert you of any problems before disaster strikes. And just as important, you’ll have the insights to know when to have the parts on hand when needed for repairs.

Operations Calibration

Machines/systems are typically commissioned and calibrated in the beginning (startup) or a random intervals, plus the calibration efforts are often narrowly focused and not incorporating neighboring systems and elements. Having digitized operations allows continuous monitoring as well as suggested calibrations to increase efficiencies and gain value which was previously unrealized.

Inventory Control

Your data will indicate how much raw material your machines are using and compare that to what you have in stock to trigger an order at the appropriate intervals.

Supplier Communication for Quality Control

Throughout the course of production, you’ll be able to monitor data and automatically report back to your suppliers where quality excels and where challenges may be present. It creates a true partnership to help you always deliver on the quality your customers expect.

Workforce Enablement & Connected Worker

Equip your team with real-time data and digital tools to enhance decision-making, efficiency, and collaboration on the plant floor.

Continuous Improvement & Productivity Optimization

Leverage data-driven insights to identify inefficiencies, streamline workflows, and drive ongoing process improvements.

While these are common scenarios we encounter as we work toward unlocking our customers’ Hidden Factories, we do recognize that everyone’s needs and goals are unique. Regardless of what challenge you’re trying to address through data, Tri Tech will partner with you to ensure the direction that is taken will positively impact your business and operations, now and into the future.

Tri Tech was able to provide design, build, and startup services that allowed us to provide our customers with improved functionality that met their specific needs, while providing us with a common platform that our service technicians will be able to support going forward.

Project Engineer

Chemical/Food & Bev Equipment Builder

I choose to work with Tri Tech because they have a good understanding of our business and our customers, and they work as a partner to help us meet our project goals.

Process Engineer

Chemical/Food & Bev Equipment Builder

We would like to take the time to say thank you for the help on this project. Honestly was very streamlined and your team is very self-directed, for sure it made my life easier and happy to have worked on the project with you all. Looking forward to more projects together!

Process Engineer Food & Beverage

Food & Beverage

Unlocking your Hidden Factory Gives You a Competitive Advantage

It’s no surprise that manufacturers who embrace digital transformation experience a wide range of benefits that deliver an immediate competitive advantage and set the table for future innovations. Those who are already on their journey, or begin soon, will have a head start as fully digitized factories become the norm. Others will fall behind, finding themselves struggling to keep up (and quite frankly, to just survive).

Tri Tech’s approach follows an agile implementation strategy that makes digital transformation attainable for manufacturing organizations of all sizes. We start where you are with the digital transformation efforts that will provide the most immediate impact and set the foundation. This spreads your investment over time and ensures you’re always capitalizing on the latest technology available and taking the right next steps for your organization’s digital transformation.