This knowledge base is designed for process engineers and factory managers who use Factory live as a decision outcome for priority decisions, continual improvements and for strategic planning.

What Factory Live Solves

Factory Live enables manufacturing teams to design, analyze, and improve factory operations before making physical changes as well as running your factory operations on a daily basis. By working with a spatially accurate 3D model of the factory, users can simulate anything from material flow, WIP, line balancing, and capacity to support better operational and strategic decisions.

Factory Live is typically used to:

• Identify and remove bottlenecks
• Evaluate layout changes and capacity investments
• Improve throughput and flow efficiency
• Align stakeholders using visual, data-driven scenarios
• Used as the last dashboard you ever need in operations
  
  

Core Concepts

Factory Live is built to turn complexity into simplicity and enable the last operations dashboard you ever need. it is made up of:

• 3D Factory Model: A digital representation of the physical factory
• Assets: Machines, workstations, buffers, and equipment
• Flows: How material, products, and resources move
• Data Connections: Operational parameters such as cycle times and capacities
• Logic: Rules that define how flows behave
• Scenarios: Running the model over time to see how the factory behaves under different conditions
• Simulation: Different alternatives to test and compare in the simulation