Every day, production time, material and energy are lost without you knowing exactly where. You sense that it could be better, but the figures to make it clear are missing. VDS Smart Factory takes the data out of your machines and systems and brings it together, so that you can produce more efficiently: more out of your existing lines and your existing team, at a lower cost per unit.
Your role determines where the gain sits. Below you can see, for each role, what you run into and what VDS Smart Factory changes for you.
From food to chemicals to metal: our customers trade gut feeling for real-time facts and adjust their operation while it is happening, not afterwards.What VDS stands for Real-time steering instead of yesterday’s figures
Your machines, control systems and software already produce data. That data sits scattered across PLCs, Excel files and standalone packages, so you steer on yesterday’s figures and on experience. A Smart Factory takes that data out, brings it together and makes it readable on the floor and in the boardroom.
We build that layer on top of what you already have, in your own environment, and start from one concrete question instead of from a multi-year plan.
See our approachEfficiency, quality, energy, the shop floor and company-wide control, the five places where production time, material and margin leak away. We make them measurable.
Hidden downtime, micro-stops and slow changeovers often cost more capacity than you think. Make visible where the time leaks away and get more out of the same line, without investing in new machines.
Read more →Deviations often only become visible once there is already scrap or there are complaints. Follow your quality parameters in real time and intervene earlier, so that you have less scrap, less rework and fewer complaints.
Read more →Without insight you steer on totals instead of on the real cause. See in real time where peaks arise per machine, shift or product and save energy without limiting your production.
Read more →Operators often know exactly what is going on, but that knowledge stays on the shop floor. Make information visible in real time, shorten onboarding time and make sure everyone works from the same facts.
Read more →When production, quality, energy and costs are looked at separately, different truths emerge. Bring all the data together in one view, so that the whole organisation steers on the same facts.
Read more →We come to your site for half a day. You get a report from us with the biggest opportunities and stumbling blocks for your factory.
From confectionery production to metalworking. Organisations that work with VDS take better decisions.
Thanks to the real-time data we now take the right decisions and make the right investments.Marten Groen, manager operations, Continental Candy Industries Read the full CCI story →
“I started VDS because I was irritated by handsome reports that changed nothing on the shop floor.
We connect your existing machines and systems and bring the data together, so that you can genuinely steer on it at the daily start-up. But it does not stop there. We keep the measurement layer sharp as your factory changes, and put new possibilities in digitalisation and AI on the table as soon as they deliver something for you. That way you stay at the wheel of your own improvements, with us as a partner that does not disappear after handover.”
Meet the teamTwo ways to get moving: half a day at your site, or a quick online scan from your desk.
We come by for half a day and map out your data landscape. You receive a concrete report with opportunities and recommendations.
Not ready for a conversation yet? Take the five-minute online self-assessment. Ten questions, an instant score on four dimensions and a personal interpretation of where you stand.
In a Quick Scan we map out the most important improvement opportunities in your production together. No thick report, no months-long project. What you do get: a clear picture of where the biggest gain sits and what a logical first step is.
