The Plant Data Starter Guide
See what your machines actually did today — without replacing any equipment.
For: Plant managers and engineering leads at 25–500 person manufacturers with no production data.
Written by: Willowark's engineers — the same people who scope and commission this work. 35 min across 15 articles.
What's inside
01Why you have no data (and what that costs)
Start with the business case: downtime you can't see is downtime you can't fix. · 3 articles
02Getting signals out of old machines
Read-only first. Nothing here touches your PLC program. · 3 articles
03The edge layer
One gateway, five machines, a VLAN your IT team will approve. · 3 articles
04Dashboards people actually use
Shift-level OEE on the plant TVs beats a perfect report nobody opens. · 3 articles
05Sensors, when the PLC can't tell you
Current clamps and vibration sensors cover most gaps for a few hundred dollars a machine. · 3 articles
From the 6-point checklist
List your 5 most expensive machines and how you find out today when they stop
The full list is interactive on the guide page — tick items off, print it, bring it to the meeting.
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