Watch the flow, not just the machine
Existing line cameras detect stopped conveyance, starved stations, and accumulation — the visual state of flow between machines.
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Line Stoppage Detection
Every minute between the line stopping and someone noticing is pure lost output. Cameras notice instantly.
The problem
Why this keeps happening
Not every stoppage announces itself. Starved stations, micro-stops, and slow bleeds between takt times disappear into aggregate OEE numbers, and PLC data explains machines — not the material flow and human factors between them.
Plant cameras watch every line continuously. Today that visibility helps only when someone reviews footage after the fact.
How it works
On the cameras you already own
Alert the line lead in seconds
The moment flow stops, the line lead knows — with the camera view attached, so the response starts informed.
Capture the cause visually
The sealed clip around each stoppage shows what actually happened — the missing context in downtime logs.
Trend losses by line and shift
Stoppage frequency and duration by line, station, and shift accumulate in CamCore — the dataset continuous improvement runs on.
The rule, in plain English
“Notify the line lead the moment the line stops or a station is starved.”
Compile it in the Rule Playground →The return
What drives the ROI
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Response time to stoppages cut to seconds
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Micro-stops surfaced instead of vanishing into OEE averages
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Root causes documented visually for kaizen work
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Recovered output without capital changes to the line
Put your own numbers behind it — the ROI calculator models your camera count and industry in two minutes.
Where this is deployed
Common questions
How is this different from PLC/OEE monitoring?
PLC data tells you a machine stopped; the camera shows the material flow and human context around it — the starved station upstream, the blocked accumulation downstream. They are complements, not substitutes.
Does this involve monitoring workers?
Rules target flow states — stopped conveyance, starved stations — not individual performance. No identification, and access to clips is role-based and audit-logged.
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Deployed in days. Resident in-country. Auditable end-to-end.
On the cameras you already own. Start with a 10–50 camera pilot, see measurable ROI in weeks, and grow it into your operations system of record.
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