NOVA for manufacturing plants
Your best operator's know-how, on every shift.
NOVA interviews your operators and maintenance crew, reads your PLCs, historians, SOPs, and manuals, and builds one factory brain that finds the root cause of every stop and walks whoever is on shift through the fix.
- Operator touches per stop
- −70%
- Diagnosis and correction
- 8x faster
- New sensors or hardware
- None
- Go-live
- 4 to 8 weeks
The problem
The line already knows how to fix itself. It just can't remember.
01
Know-how retires with your people
Most fixes live in a few operators' heads, not in any system.
of the US manufacturing workforce retires by 2030
02
Operators spend their time on paperwork, not fixes
Resolving losses, Hoshin analysis, manual defect logging, documentation, and SOP creation all land on the same people.
of operator time goes into these tasks
03
The data is there, unused
PLCs, sensors, and cameras already capture what's needed. Nobody reads the manuals, so hard fixes wait on an OEM call.
of sensor data goes unused
of resolution steps are solved only with OEM calls
One product
NOVA captures, connects, guides, and reports
Interviews, live data, guided fixes, and the admin dashboard are one product with one login. Each part feeds the next.
Interview
AI interviews your operators and maintenance crew by voice or text, in their own language, on the phone they already carry.
Connect
Reads PLCs, historians, line cameras, SOPs, and machine manuals. No new hardware.
Guide
When a line stops, NOVA finds the likely root cause and walks the operator through the fix, step by step.
Run
One dashboard for losses, fixes, interview progress, and how the brain is growing. Generate reports and Hoshin analysis in one click, and get SOPs for each transformation, rewritten from the latest fixes.
Why NOVA is different
Data tells you what changed. Experience tells you why.
Most industrial AI connects to live data streams or predicts part failures. NOVA adds the layer they leave out: what the people who fix these machines actually know.
| Capability | Live-data platforms | Predictive maintenance | NOVA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reads live PLC, historian, and sensor data | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Interviews operators and service engineers to capture their experience | No | No | Yes |
| Uses machine manuals, SOPs, and service history | No | No | Yes |
| Explains why a stop happened, not only that a value changed | No | Partly | Yes |
| Guides the operator through the fix, step by step, by voice or text | No | No | Yes |
| Rewrites SOPs from the latest fixes | No | No | Yes |
| Keeps the knowledge when an expert leaves | No | No | Yes |
| Works without new sensors or hardware | Partly | No | Yes |
See it in action
Same fault. Two very different shifts.
A drive shaft fails on Motor 5 of the labeling line. Here’s what happens next — with and without NOVA.
Without NOVA
Elapsed downtime
- —Line stops. The labeling line is down.
- —Operator walks the line, checking each PLC for the fault.+15 min
- —Traces it to one transformation on the labeling line.+10 min
- —Reads the HMI screen for the alarming component.+5 min
- —Inspects by hand — Motor 5 drive shaft is damaged.+10 min
- —Calls around for the part number, stock, and procedure. Walks to inventory.+45 min
- —Waits for a senior operator to explain the replacement.+25 min
- —Shaft replaced. Line restarts.+10 min
With NOVA
Elapsed downtime
NOVA
Line assistant · Labeling line
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Case studies
NOVA on real lines
Two plant deployments, each with an interactive walkthrough and the on-site HMI screens.
Founders
Built by people who’ve stood on the line
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