How We Build Your
Manufacturing Intelligence Foundation
From a 10-minute readiness call to fully live analytics, every step is designed to minimize your team's time commitment while maximizing operational impact.
Phase-1
3 Weeks
2hrs / function
Kick-off & Discovery
FactoryTwin's team conducts structured interviews with your functional experts across planning, production, quality, and supply chain, learning how your factory actually operates, not how the org chart says it does. We also gain secure access to your existing data sources to understand your current landscape before recommending anything.
FactoryTwin Does
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Interviews with functional experts across all departments
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Current-state operational assessment
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Systems landscape mapping
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Secure data source access setup
Your Team Does
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2 hours per functional area
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Provide system credentials and data access
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Introduce relevant stakeholders
Phase Outcome
A clear picture of your operational environment, data landscape, and highest-priority improvement areas, forming the foundation for everything that follows.
Phase-2
4 weeks
4hrs / function
Requirements & Data
The most data-intensive phase and the most impactful. FactoryTwin works with your team to finalize exactly what each user group needs from the platform, then runs FactoryValidator® to identify and prioritize every data gap. Where cleansing is needed, we work through it systematically so the analytics layer has a clean, reliable foundation to build on.
FactoryTwin Does
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Finalize user requirements by role and function
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Run FactoryValidator® data diagnostics
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Prioritize data gaps by urgency & operational impact
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Lead targeted data validation & cleansing
Your Team Does
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4 hours per functional area
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Review and approve user requirements
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Assist with data corrections where needed
Phase Outcome
Finalized user requirements and a Data Criticality vs. Urgency insights, every data gap identified, ranked, and either resolved or scheduled for closure. Your data is analytics-ready.
Phase-3
2 weeks
1hr / function
Design & Build
With clean data and finalized requirements in hand, FactoryTwin's team designs and builds your platform configuration, including analytics views, S&OP/S&OE workflows, and DigitalCI™ continuous improvement modules. Your team's involvement is minimal at this stage; we handle the build and check in for feedback.
FactoryTwin Does
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UI/UX design for dashboards and workflows
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Configure and build FactoryTwin® modules
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Connect data pipelines to analytics engine
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Internal testing and quality review
Your Team Does
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1 hour per functional area
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Review design mockups and provide feedback
Phase Outcome
A fully built FactoryTwin® instance — configured to your factory's workflows, data structure, and user roles — ready for acceptance testing.
Phase-4
2 weeks
As Needed
Install & Testing
FactoryTwin is installed in your environment and your team validates the platform against real operational data. User acceptance testing confirms that dashboards, alerts, and analytics outputs reflect actual factory conditions and are decision-ready. Any issues are resolved before go-live.
FactoryTwin Does
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Production environment installation
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Live data pipeline validation
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Issue resolution and iteration
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User training preparation
Your Team Does
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User acceptance testing by function
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Validate outputs against known operational data
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Flag issues for resolution before go-live
Phase Outcome
A fully validated, production-ready FactoryTwin® instance — confirmed by your team against live factory data, with all issues resolved and users trained.
Phase-5
LIVE
None
FactoryTwin® Go Live
FactoryTwin® goes live across your selected modules. Real-time interfaces, predictive analytics, and continuous improvement workflows are active and in use by all factory departments. From this point forward, your team has the operational visibility to make faster, smarter decisions every day.
FactoryTwin Does
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Real-time operational dashboards & scenario analysis
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FactoryForecast™ predictive analytics
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DigitalCI™ continuous improvement
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S&OP / S&OE planning workflows
Your Team Does
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Continuous FactoryTwin team support
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User training on request
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Platform maintenance & updates
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New module activation as you scale
Phase Outcome
Manufacturers using FactoryTwin® have achieved +20 pts on-time delivery, +20% revenue, +20% profitability, and +50% cash flow improvement — with double-digit KPI gains typically visible within the first operating quarter post go-live.