Plan B｜Shop-Floor Digitisation

Three months to get paper off the floor. Die inspection, changeover analysis, floor dashboards and improvement tracking in one package. Eight to twelve weeks, and the easiest package to pair with a government grant.

Who this is for

Short-handed, still on paper forms, the experienced hands are retiring — and now your major customer wants traceability.

Where clients usually start

The information on the floor lives on paper and in a few people's heads. When they leave, the experience leaves with them; when the customer audit arrives, the records cannot be found.

In one line

Three months to get paper off the floor.

What is included

• Die inspection and maintenance history
• Changeover (SMED) time analysis
• Shop-floor dashboards with abnormality alerts
• Value stream (VSM) current-state mapping
• Improvement proposals and follow-through

Lead time

8–12 weeks

How acceptance is defined

The figures below are the system's design targets. The actual acceptance baseline and thresholds are set during the current-state diagnosis, from your own plant's numbers, and written into the implementation contract — without a baseline there is nothing to accept against.

• Paper forms down 80%
• Changeover time down 25%
• Missed inspections → zero

How your data is handled

For this package, on-premises is the default. Building systems that run inside the plant is what this company does: the server and the database sit on your site, designed and built for each engagement. Most of our clients are first- and second-tier suppliers to the electronics industry, whose own customers require absolute confidentiality — so we settle the data question before we talk about features.

• What we touch — only the fields that are needed, via a read-only account or an exported file. What is not needed does not enter the system.
• De-identification — sensitive fields such as customer names, part numbers and unit prices are replaced with codes; the mapping stays on your side. What we see is structure and distribution, not the original values.
• Who has access — a fixed team, named in advance, working to your site access and NDA procedures. The project lead is certified by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs iPAS programme as an Information Security Engineer (Intermediate).
• It stays yours afterwards — source code, tests, documentation and a software bill of materials (SBOM) are handed over in full, so you can maintain it without us.

One commitment that costs nothing: if you already have a supplier security questionnaire, send it to us. We will fill it in and send it back, free of charge.

We do not hold ISO 27001 certification. What we have is a project lead certified in information security, an on-premises-first architecture, and data terms that can be written into the contract clause by clause. If your audit requires a certificate, say so on the first call and we will tell you straight whether we can meet it.

Cost

• Implementation　NT$450,000–800,000
  Includes shop-floor mapping, system build, training and go-live support.
• Annual fee　NT$80,000–140,000
  Maintenance, version updates and remote support.
• Hardware　Quoted separately, purchased by you
  Tablets, dashboard screens, scanning devices and network cabling are specified from the diagnosis. The hardware is your asset; we do not resell equipment.

How to start

Begin with a current-state diagnosis, NT$36,000: we come to your floor, and two weeks later you get a report setting out where the waste is, what it is costing you in money, what we recommend doing, and which government grants you could apply for.

If you have already completed Stage 1 of the MOEA Industrial Competitiveness Advisory Corps diagnosis and hold the advisory diagnosis report, you do not need this current-state diagnosis and can go straight to an implementation quote; cross-system customisation or shop-floor process change is assessed separately.

The diagnosis fee is not credited back and not refunded — the report has value on its own. Even if you do not go ahead with us, you can use it yourself, or put it into a grant application. If you do sign an implementation contract, we add 16 hours of custom development at no charge.

Overseas sites

Plants in mainland China and Southeast Asia are quoted separately. Travel, accommodation and visa costs are borne by your company, and work is scheduled in blocks of at least three days, travel included — flying out for a two-hour visit does not serve either side, so the free shop-floor visit is not available overseas. The quoting currency and which side carries any cross-border withholding tax are confirmed in writing with the quote.

If your plant has rules against data leaving the country, say so on the first call. Those rules are usually stricter overseas than in Taiwan, and our approach is the same either way: settle the data question first, then talk about features.

What does Plan B｜Shop-Floor Digitisation solve?

We start by understanding the problem on the manufacturing floor, in the management process and in how data moves — not by reaching for a tool. Typical situations include unstable delivery, quality abnormalities, excess inventory, gaps in shop-floor reporting, system data that cannot support decisions, or a manager who wants improvement results made systematic and measurable.

How we implement it

Implementation follows the TPS way of thinking: first clarify the objective, the current process, where the waste comes from and what benefit is expected, then choose the right systems, AI, IoT or automation. Every option comes back to three questions — can the floor actually use it, can improvement continue, and can managers see the right information?

Where to go next

If you are not sure which service to start with, look at our case studies, or use the enquiry form to tell us your industry, your size and the problem you are facing. We will help you work out the order of priority.