Turn machine data into the next action.
Both Guidewheel and Evocon help manufacturers understand production performance. The choice depends on your machines, the decisions your teams need to make, and the help you want as you put the information to work.
Guidewheel is the practical operating platform for manufacturing. It connects machine signals with operating context, then combines AI-powered software and manufacturing experts to guide your next high-value action and apply what works across plants.
Manufacturers using Guidewheel
Three decisions to make before you choose.
Start with the operating job you need the platform to do. Compare both products on representative equipment and use the same definitions, inputs and success measures.
What information do your machines need to provide?
Guidewheel starts with clip-on sensors that read a machine's electrical activity. Suitable additional sensors and connected systems can add the information a particular decision needs.
Evocon's standard setup uses a production sensor connected to an IIoT device, with data sent to its cloud software. Test how each setup captures the states, counts and context your operation needs.
How will the team explain and act on losses?
Automatic capture establishes what happened. Your team still needs useful context, an owner for the next action, and a way to check the result.
Guidewheel's software and manufacturing experts work alongside your team to identify opportunities and review progress. Operators can add the context that a machine signal cannot explain on its own.
Evocon combines automatic production data with operator-entered reasons for downtime. Review the daily workflow with the people who will use it.
What will a wider rollout require?
Agree the machines, plants, integrations, training and support needed for the first deployment and for expansion. Ask both vendors to show how shared definitions and daily review will work across your sites.
Evocon offers multi-factory management and a dedicated account manager in its Enterprise package. Guidewheel helps your team use a shared operating record to prioritize improvements and apply them across plants.
Connect. Guide. Amplify.
Guidewheel gives plant teams a practical starting point and helps operating leaders build on it.
Connect your machines.
Establish a trusted view of run, idle and down time across your equipment. Start with a representative set of machines and confirm the signals needed for your use case. An initial sensor deployment does not require a PLC connection or a prerequisite IT project.
Add the context behind the number.
Bring machine signals together with team knowledge and supported system connections. Downtime reasons, production counts, scrap and scheduling context may come from different sources. Agree the input for each measure.
Guide the next action.
AI-powered software and manufacturing experts help your team identify the loss that deserves attention next. Assign an owner, make the change and review its effect against the same baseline.
Build habits that last.
A plant champion leads review and follow-through. Operators contribute context, and Guidewheel works alongside the team as new questions and opportunities emerge.
Amplify what works.
Use successful improvements at one plant to guide action elsewhere. Shared operating information helps leaders evaluate capacity, equipment purchases, staffing, work allocation and lead times.
See how a customer made the start.
At Seacast, Guidewheel's team installed 10 machines in two days and trained the maintenance team on installation. Seacast then expanded the rollout, with 30 machines fully deployed in under a month.
The right first step depends on your equipment and the decisions you want to improve. Plan a representative deployment with clear responsibilities and success measures.