Industries · Auto components
Machine monitoring for auto component manufacturers
Component plants run multi-shift, high-volume machining under OEM pressure on delivery and price. ThingConnect gives supervisors live visibility across every shift — including the ones nobody senior is awake for — and produces the shift-wise records customer audits keep asking about.
What component plants deal with
- The night shift's real output is discovered the next morning, eight hours too late to recover.
- Cycle times drift upward over months — a few seconds per part that quietly becomes a capacity problem at annual volumes.
- Customer audits ask for downtime and OEE records that today get reconstructed from logbooks the week before the audit.
- New machine purchases get approved on gut feel while existing machines idle unmeasured between shifts.
How ThingConnect does it
Every shift, actually visible
Shift-wise OEE, output, and downtime — live during the shift and recorded permanently after it. The 2 AM hours stop being a blind spot.
Cycle-time drift caught early
Actual cycle times tracked against reference per part program, so a 5% drift shows up in weeks, not in a missed annual capacity plan.
Audit-ready records by default
Downtime causes, OEE components, and shift reports accumulate automatically and export to Excel — records that exist because the system ran, not because someone prepared for the audit.
Common questions
We run three shifts — does monitoring cover all of them equally?
Yes. Data collection is continuous and shift boundaries are configured to your calendar, so every shift gets the same live dashboards and the same permanent records. Most plants find the biggest surprises in the shifts management sees least.
Can reports be shown to customers during audits?
Yes — shift and downtime reports export to Excel and can be filtered to the lines or parts a customer audit covers. Plants use them as evidence of systematic downtime management and continuous improvement.
Our margins are thin — how does this pay for itself?
Through recovered machine-hours. At auto-component volumes, even 20–30 minutes of recovered time per machine per day compounds into real capacity — capacity you either sell or use to defer the next machine purchase.
See it on machines like yours
A 30-minute demo, then a pilot on your own floor if it fits.