Resources

Field notes from the floor.

What happens between "machine down" and "problem solved," and what the data tells you about it.

01 / FeaturedHow we think it works

What a 14-day pilot should produce.

PILOT THESIS / FLOOR PHOTO

THESIS · 6 MIN READ

From minutes of guessing to a number on the wall — what we believe 14 days of data can deliver.

Put Helix Meridian on a plant's highest-impact lines and we expect that by day 14 the team will have a ranked list of recurring issues, shift-by-shift response curves, and answers to questions the plant manager has been asking for years. This is the outcome we're building for — and the bar we hold ourselves to.

60%

Target response improvement

14days

To a usable baseline

1site

All you need to start

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02 / LibraryArticles & guides

Reading list.

These pieces lay out how we think Helix Meridian works on a real floor — the operating model behind the product, the design choices we made, and the outcomes we're building toward. Read it as our point of view, not a victory lap.

A.01

ARTICLE / COVER

ARTICLE · 4 MIN

Why physical andon lights miss most of the value.

A light tells you something is wrong. It can't tell you who responded, how long it took, or whether it's the third time this week.

A.02

GUIDE / COVER

GUIDE · 8 MIN

Designing escalation rules that don't cry wolf.

Escalation thresholds are usually too aggressive or too slack. Here's how to set them based on what your floor actually does.

A.03

VIDEO / COVER

VIDEO · 12 MIN

Pilot day-by-day: what we set up, what we measured.

A walk through one pilot from kick-off to day 14, with the configuration choices and what they produced.

A.04

TEMPLATE / COVER

TEMPLATE · DOWNLOAD

Pre-pilot checklist for plant managers.

The site layout, user list, shift schedule, and signal-type prep that makes a pilot succeed before it starts.

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ARTICLE / COVER

ARTICLE · 5 MIN

What an IT team sees when they look at our architecture.

Browser-only, JWT-authenticated, Socket.IO real-time, role-based. Here's what's actually under the hood.

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ARTICLE / COVER

ARTICLE · 3 MIN

Per-site vs. per-user pricing: why we chose what we chose.

Per-user pricing punishes the operations that put it in front of more people. We don't want to do that.

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