Industry
Manufacturing automation and factory data systems
Factory automation, machine integration, dashboards, and industrial data historians for manufacturers who need reliable production visibility.
Typical challenges
- •Machines and lines that do not share data cleanly
- •Paper or spreadsheet production reporting
- •Limited historical context for quality and downtime analysis
How LCT helps
- ✓PLC/SCADA and machine integration
- ✓Production dashboards and downtime visibility
- ✓Historian-backed analytics with TDengine where appropriate
Frequently asked questions
Does LCT only do greenfield factory projects?
No. Most work is brownfield: connecting existing machines, improving SCADA, and adding reporting without stopping production.
How do you get data out of machines that do not share it cleanly?
Machine by machine, using whatever each one exposes — native PLC protocols, OPC-UA, Modbus, or a gateway where the machine offers nothing useful. The aim is a consistent set of tags with agreed names and units, because mixed naming is what makes cross-line comparison impossible later.
Can automated reporting replace our production spreadsheets?
Usually, and the honest constraint is data quality rather than reporting tooling. Once the underlying tags are trustworthy, shift, downtime and quality reports can be generated on a schedule from historian data. We normally run the automated pack alongside the spreadsheet until the numbers agree, then retire the manual version.
Let’s get the shift numbers off the spreadsheet
Tell us about the line that waits on a number, and the Excel pack production still uses to close the shift. We will scope the automation and reporting work that replaces it.