Overview

Welcome to the Busroot documentation!

What is Busroot?

Busroot is a dedicated manufacturing performance platform with the goal of providing a complete, accurate and real-time set of key manufacturing performance metrics, out of the box. These metrics and insights are presented via a modern, web-based interface.

The data models produced by Busroot serve as the single source of truth for both real-time and historical activity on the shop floor. This makes it ideal to not only drive decision making as is, but to also inform other reporting that relies on accurate shop-floor context (such as predictive maintenance and AI-based automation).

Busroot directly connects machines via a wide range of supported methods. It is hardware agnostics, allowing for any IoT sensor, PLC or data acquisition unit to provide data into the platform.

Busroot has 100% API coverage for all inputs and outputs.

Who is Busroot for?

Busroot is for any manufacturer looking to increase production throughput, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency using a standardised approach to data collection, management and visualisation.

Key Features

Production Tracking

Measure and report production output per station, per SKU.

Asset Utilisation

Measure and report productive vs non-productive time for each station.

Downtime Analysis

Measure and report automatically detected downtime. Understand common causes.

Scheduling

Set production and non-production schedules for stations using a lightweight tool.

OEE Analysis

Understand production losses vs the theoretical maximum output of your operation.

Energy Monitoring

Measure and report energy consumption in general, and with relation to output.

Cycle Time Analysis

Understand cycle time performance vs targets, and cycle time variance.

Lost Production Cost Analysis

Quantify the cost of lost production as a monetary value, grouped by underlying reason.

Operator Interface

Communicate, motivate and interact directly with station operators via shop-floor screens.

Shop Floor LFDs

Communicate and motivate staff with information on TVs or similar large format displays.

Email Notifications

Receive timely & succinct messages over email for alerts, progress reports and performance summaries.