If your OEE is a monthly guess, you're leaving money on the floor.
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 delivers practical IoT manufacturing and industrial automation solutions that put that visibility on the screen, usually without touching your existing controls — a grounded first step into the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Where the throughput is leaking.
OEE you can't see in real time
A monthly OEE number averages away the losses; you need it live, by line and shift, with the real downtime reasons.
Old lines with no data
Plenty of productive machines have no usable PLC — and a control upgrade to "get data" kills the business case.
Failures that stop the line
A bearing, motor or pump fails mid-shift with no warning, taking out production and damaging neighbours.
Data trapped in islands
Machines and meters that don't talk to each other — and to the ERP — so no one sees the whole picture.
The solutions manufacturers start with.
OEE Management
Real availability, performance and quality by line, shift and product, with reason-coded downtime.
Learn more →OEE without a new PLC
Measure OEE on an old line using the signals it already produces — no rip-and-replace.
Read the guide →Asset & Condition Monitoring
Catch bearing, motor and pump failures before they stop the line.
Learn more →addaNet Platform
One dashboard tying production and asset health together — and into your ERP/MES.
Learn more →Connect existing equipment
Vendor- and PLC-agnostic integration over Modbus, OPC-UA and MQTT — keep what works.
Read the guide →Load-shedding resilience
Edge buffering so the production record survives every outage.
Read the guide →Go deeper before you commit.
What does an OEE system cost?
Cost drivers, ZAR bands and payback.
OEE on an old line without a PLC
Instrument legacy machines, no rip-and-replace.
Digital transformation roadmap
Start small, prove it, scale.
Why vibration monitoring projects fail
Scope condition monitoring for payback.
SCADA vs IoT platform
Control vs visibility — which you need.
Industrial IoT in South Africa
The practical operator's guide.
Industrial manufacturing solutions without disruption — and without a rip-and-replace.
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. Our industrial IoT devices and edge gateways sit alongside your existing automation — PLCs, drives and sensors — rather than replacing it. 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.
Manufacturing questions we answer.
The fastest payback on a factory floor is almost always seeing your true OEE and your top downtime reasons for the first time.
See one line live in 30 days.
Tell us about your hardest-to-read line. We'll recommend the least invasive way to measure it — and what it's worth.