Fortune 200 CNC manufacturer · Machine tools
Real-time machine monitoring for a Fortune 200 CNC manufacturer
Engineers see the live status of their machines on web and mobile, with clear normal, warning and failure states and alarms on their phones.
What had to work better
The manufacturer needed engineers to see machine status in real time. Machine data arrived through different adapter formats, and each user needed access to the machines and functions relevant to their work.
Built for each role
Engineers
Follow the machines they are responsible for and receive alarms on their phones.
Administrators
Manage companies, users, machines and alarm settings.
What we built
- Data collection from machines through MTConnect, with C++ adapters and a desktop collector
- A parser for different XML adapter formats that brings the signals into one model
- Status logic for normal, warning and failure states
- Services for data processing, availability checks and live updates over WebSockets
- Alarm detection with mobile push and email notifications
- Native Android and iOS apps with machine watchlists
- An administration app for companies, users, machines and alarm settings
- Hosting on AWS
- MTConnect machine agents
- Mobile push notifications
- C++
- Electron
- Angular
- Go
- PHP
- Symfony
- React
- Kotlin
- Swift
- PostgreSQL
- RabbitMQ
- AWS
What changed
Engineers view machine status in the monitoring apps with consistent state indicators and access tailored to their responsibilities. Different adapter formats feed one monitoring workflow, and machines that stop reporting are flagged instead of looking idle.