MANUFACTURING / INTEGRATION / AUTOMATION

Made on the factory floor.

FactoKit is a toolkit for manufacturing, built by someone who works in production and systems integration, for the engineers who do the same work: production and quality engineers, integrators, automation specialists and programmers.

Why FactoKit

The small jobs of a production day tend to end up scattered across browser tabs, spreadsheets and scripts: a capability check, a byte order, a takt calculation, a message to validate. Each one is simple, until it has to be right.

  • 01Check the numbers

    Capacity, cycle times, capability and production losses.

  • 02Connect the systems

    Payloads, protocols and data conversions.

  • 03Get back to work

    Focused tools. Clear inputs. Useful results.

Principles

How the calculations are checked

  1. The method is written down. Each tool has a Method section with its formulas, defaults and limits, and says where it follows a convention that differs between programs.
  2. A second implementation. The results are compared with reference calculations written separately, in Python with libraries such as SciPy and statsmodels or in exact fractions, and with published worked examples.
  3. Tests run on every change. Those reference values are part of the automated tests, together with browser tests of the pages and of the offline files.
  4. What is not verified says so. Tables and rules written from memory or not yet compared with their source are marked unverified on the page, in the exports and in print. They are never presented as final.

FactoKit is a working tool, not a validated or certified system. For regulated or safety-critical decisions, check the results yourself.

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