About FactoryTwin
Award-Winning Manufacturing Operations Software
Founded in 2017 as Advisory Aerospace, we have now transitioned into a full-service factory digitalization solutions provider. Through our scores of engagements, we came up with the product idea for FactoryTwin®. As industry-agnostic productivity catalysts, we are now named after our award-winning software platform. We are a dedicated team of computer scientists, data engineers, and experienced operations professionals committed to helping transform manufacturing. Our proprietary algorithm to build Factory Digital Twins has been recognized by the National Science Foundation with multiple Small Business Innovation Research awards.
Our Mission
“Simplify Factories. Unlock Productivity.”
FactoryTwin software uses advanced algorithms to enable descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics of factory data to bring about a step improvement in factory operational metrics like delivery performance, cash flow, and profitability. No buzzwords, just results.
Our Vision
“FactoryTwin will empower operational decision-making at all factories, irrespective of their size and their industry.”
Manufacturers, particularly SMMs, are highly price sensitive, lack internal data science expertise, and are generally offered very narrow and siloed solutions by software vendors. FactoryTwin offers a comprehensive and affordable cross-functional solution to their pain points with a promise of double-digit improvement.
What is FactoryTwin?
FactoryTwin is a user-friendly and secure platform that harnesses the superpower of existing factory data to drive productivity gains for Manufacturers of all sizes. Additionally, it provides users with an On-Demand practical approach to cleansing factory data to ensure accurate analytics.
Our History
Our Core Values
We codified our values using the vision of our founder and active input from our team. We hold the values sacrosanct and are guided by them "when no one is looking".
Our Team
Our Hopkins (MN) based team is comprised of computer scientists, mathematicians, data scientists, and engineers that design, develop, and support innovative factory optimization software to meet the operational needs of our customers. We are pros in data investigation, data cleansing, and developing user intuitive software to build the FactoryTwin of your own manufacturing operation.
Strategic Leadership
Founder & CEO
Vivek Saxena
PhD in Aerospace & Applied Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. Former President & CEO of Mooney International, Vice President of ICF Aviation Advisory, and Procurement Executive, General Manager, Chief Engineer, and Plant Manager for Pratt & Whitney
Advisor
Jim Wetzel
The Co-founder of NxGen Group; former founding CEO & Strategic Advisor, CESMII; ex-Director of Global Reliability at General Mills. 30+ years leading smart manufacturing and delivering measurable, data-driven shop-floor gains.
Advisor
Ashim Bose
Professor at University of Texas Dallas, in the school of business. Formerly CTO and Chief AI Officer at various companies.
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Advisor
Craig Musson
Operations Executive, Senior Director of Strategic Sourcing at Pratt & Whitney. Managed spend over $2B and negotiated tens of billions in long term contracts.
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Advisor
Larry Betterley
CEO of Lexington Advisors LLC. Former CFO of Cardiovascular Systems Inc., Cray Research, Cima NanoTech Inc., and PLATO Learning Inc.
Advisor
Jaideep Srivastava
Co-Founder and CTO of Truro Analytics and Ninja Metrics. Computer Science and Engineering Professor at the University of Minnesota
Senior Consultants
Cloud AI & Cybersecurity
Samir Sehovic
25 years of experience in software development with expertise in cloud architecture and cybersecurity. Additional proficiency in AI and ML.
Operations Research
Ana Muriel
Associate Department Head and Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Recognized expert in scheduling, mixed integer programming, among other cutting edge operations research areas
ERP & PLM Systems
Dave Roscoe
Senior Fellow in Product Lifecycle and Data Management at United Technologies Corporation. Decades of experience in ERP/PLM systems— their implementation and automated data migration
Industry-Leading Factory Digital Twin Analytics Platform
What differentiates us? We are operations experts equipped to help shops with our proprietary analytics platform. Our customer base ranges from assemblers to composite shops, to metal fabricators, to machine shops and more. We have seen it all when it comes to manufacturing.
The advanced and diverse knowledge of our staff allows us to provide unrivaled, digitalization services supported by our cutting edge FactoryTwin analytics platform. Our developers are engineers with real-life manufacturing and supply chain knowledge. Our senior staff have held executive C-level positions in major aerospace and Medtech companies. They understand the stated and unstated needs of customers, partner effectively and efficiently with customer teams, speak the language, while executing projects with rigorous frameworks, and proprietary tools proven to improve business metrics by double digits.
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Software & Analytics
Partnerships
Careers at FactoryTwin
Have a passion for Manufacturing, AI & Datascience? Want to take control of your personal career growth & shape the aerospace industry? We are always looking for exceptional candidates. When you join our firm, you join our team of experienced and motivated game changers. You will get exposure in multiple industry-wide issues and to major companies in the aerospace supply chain. We take pride in investing in our team and provide support for professional training in addition to a competitive compensation package.