South African manufacturers run lean, on tight margins, through load shedding. The plants that win are the ones that can see what's actually happening — line by line, shift by shift — and act before the shift target is missed. addanode puts that visibility on the screen, usually without touching your existing controls.
A monthly OEE number averages away the losses; you need it live, by line and shift, with the real downtime reasons.
Plenty of productive machines have no usable PLC — and a control upgrade to "get data" kills the business case.
A bearing, motor or pump fails mid-shift with no warning, taking out production and damaging neighbours.
Machines and meters that don't talk to each other — and to the ERP — so no one sees the whole picture.
Real availability, performance and quality by line, shift and product, with reason-coded downtime.
Learn more →Measure OEE on an old line using the signals it already produces — no rip-and-replace.
Read the guide →Catch bearing, motor and pump failures before they stop the line.
Learn more →One dashboard tying production and asset health together — and into your ERP/MES.
Learn more →Vendor- and PLC-agnostic integration over Modbus, OPC-UA and MQTT — keep what works.
Read the guide →Edge buffering so the production record survives every outage.
Read the guide →Cost drivers, ZAR bands and payback.
Instrument legacy machines, no rip-and-replace.
Start small, prove it, scale.
Scope condition monitoring for payback.
Control vs visibility — which you need.
The practical operator's guide.
Read what you already own: we measure OEE and asset health from the signals your machines already produce, vendor- and PLC-agnostic, so you rarely replace a controller to get data. Start on one bottleneck line, prove the payback in a quarter, then scale on the same platform — with edge buffering that keeps the production record through load shedding, and data that flows into your ERP/MES.
It all runs on the in-house addaNet platform — see OEE management for how the numbers come together.
The fastest payback on a factory floor is almost always seeing your true OEE and your top downtime reasons for the first time.
Tell us about your hardest-to-read line. We'll recommend the least invasive way to measure it — and what it's worth.