What changes on Monday morning when Arcstone goes live?
No more chasing supervisors for last week's numbers. No more guessing why Line 3 missed target. No more paper job cards lost between the planner's desk and the operator's bench. Arcstone replaces the disconnected spreadsheets with one live shop-floor system the MD (Managing Director), the production lead, the quality lead and every PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) on the line all share.
OEE lift in 6 months
Live OEE on the line screen and a supervisor dashboard surface the Availability, Performance and Quality losses the factory has been hiding. Typical lift in the first 6 months on arc.ops, sustained as operators learn the numbers.
Drop in unplanned downtime
Automated downtime capture from PLC stop signals, root-cause tagging at the line, and Daxonet AI Predictive Maintenance on top of arc.ops sensor data. Measured against the customer's own pre-rollout baseline.
Supervisor reporting time recovered
Excel OEE spreadsheets, paper job cards and the morning production meeting that runs on last week's numbers: retired. The supervisor walks the floor instead of typing in a spreadsheet.
Customer audit response
Lot and serial genealogy is live in arc.ops. When the MNC customer asks "show me every shipment that touched batch 2026-0518," the quality lead clicks one button instead of pulling paper files for two days.
Should you start on arc.lite or arc.ops?
| Capability | arc.lite (free entry) | arc.ops (flagship) |
|---|---|---|
| Digital work orders | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operator clock-in & cycle time | ✓ | ✓ |
| OEE dashboard | Basic (manual + barcode) | Real-time (PLC-driven) |
| Downtime tagging | Two-tap manual | Automatic from PLC |
| Machine connectivity (MQTT, OPC-UA, Modbus) | — | ✓ 50+ protocols |
| SPC quality charts | — | ✓ |
| Lot & serial traceability | — | ✓ with genealogy |
| Andon escalation | — | ✓ |
| Finite-capacity scheduling | — | ✓ |
| e-Kanban replenishment | — | ✓ |
| Energy & OEE-by-shift analytics | — | ✓ |
| D365 / AutoCount / SAP integration | CSV export | ✓ REST API + certified connectors |
| License model | Free | Per connected machine, annual |
| Typical factory size | 1–10 machines | 10–500 machines |
Upgrade path: all arc.lite data, dashboards and operator workflows carry forward to arc.ops on the same database. no rip-and-replace, no operator retraining on a new UI.
Which Arcstone modules does a factory actually need?
Real-time OEE
Availability, Performance and Quality calculated live per machine, per line, per shift. Plant-roll-up on the MD's phone. Drill from "Line 3 dropped 12% today" to "Machine 7 lost 47 minutes on changeover" in two clicks.
Paperless work orders
Job cards pushed from D365 or AutoCount to the operator's terminal. Operator clocks in, runs the job, scans the finished label. Completions, scrap and rework post back to the ERP automatically.
Lot & serial traceability
Genealogy from raw material to finished shipment. Forward trace from a single component lot to every shipment it touched. Backward trace from a customer complaint to every input that contributed.
SPC quality control
X-bar R, p-chart, c-chart and CpK live on the line. Out-of-spec alerts route to the quality lead before the next bad part is made. Non-conformance reports auto-generate with the offending cycle data attached.
IIoT machine connectivity
MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport), OPC-UA (Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture), Modbus TCP, Siemens S7, Allen-Bradley, Mitsubishi MELSEC, Fanuc Focas and 50+ other protocols. Edge gateway retrofits older machines with sensors at RM 500 to RM 2,000 each.
Finite-capacity scheduling
Drag-and-drop Gantt scheduler with real machine availability, operator skill and tooling constraints. Forward-schedule from a customer due date, backward-schedule from a material arrival.
Andon & escalation
Stack-light, mobile push and SMS alerts on stoppage, scrap threshold breach or quality alarm. Configurable escalation ladder: operator, supervisor, plant manager: with response-time logging.
Energy & sustainability
kWh per part, kWh per shift, kWh per OEE point. Identify the energy-greedy machines and the energy-greedy hours. Carbon reporting for MNC customers asking for Scope 1 and Scope 2 disclosure.
One MES, wired into the systems you already run.
ERP & accounting
D365 Finance, D365 Supply Chain Management, D365 Business Central, AutoCount Accounting, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). Work orders down, completions and scrap up, no manual posting.
Shop-floor machines
50+ PLC and machine protocols natively. Edge gateway for legacy machines without a PLC. Barcode scanners, label printers, Andon towers, weighing scales, vision systems: wire directly.
Quality & lab
LIMS, gauge calibration software, third-party SPC packages and customer-mandated quality portals all consume from Arcstone's REST API.
AI & analytics
Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and Daxonet AI Frontier consume Arcstone data directly. AI Predictive Maintenance and AI Machine Vision Inspection plug straight into the arc.ops sensor and image feeds.
How long does an Arcstone Phase 1 rollout take?
Discovery & line walk
Daxonet engineers walk the candidate line with the production, quality and IT leads. KPI tree, machine protocol audit, current paper/Excel workflow map. Output: a Phase 1 scope document the MD signs off.
Configuration & integration
Gateway provisioning, PLC tag mapping, work-order connector to D365 or AutoCount, SPC chart setup, label printer and Andon hardware install. Iterative show-and-tell every Friday with the production lead.
UAT & operator training
Two-week parallel run with paper + Arcstone side by side. Operator training on the terminal (typically 2 hours per operator). Supervisor training on the dashboard. Quality team trained on SPC and traceability.
Cutover & hypercare
Paper retired, Arcstone live. 4-week hypercare with a Daxonet engineer on-call. KPI review at week 4, week 8 and week 12 to lock in the OEE and downtime baseline.
Subsequent lines roll out on the same template in 4 to 6 weeks each, using the gateway, connector and operator workflows already proven on the pilot line.
The numbers the CFO asks for before signing.
Discrete, process, assembly: and the legacy lines in between.
Electronics & semiconductor
SMT line traceability, component-lot genealogy, customer-mandated quality reporting for MNC supply chains.
Plastics & injection moulding
Cycle-time tracking per cavity, scrap-by-cause analysis, energy per shot, mould-change SMED tracking.
Metal & fabrication
CNC connectivity, tool-life monitoring, weld traceability, customer-mandated material certificates.
Food & beverage
Batch traceability, HACCP-aligned quality data, allergen segregation, recall response in minutes.
Automotive parts
IATF 16949-aligned SPC, supplier PPAP submissions, customer EDI work-order integration.
Electrical equipment
Serial-level traceability, test-station data capture, warranty-claim root-cause genealogy.