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    Know what happened on the line, and what to do next.

    Collect PLC events, keep production history tied to each unit, and give engineers the details they need to investigate faults and quality problems.

    Event Engine® has a no-form 30-day trial. For IntelliTrack™, we can walk through your application.

    Why we built it →

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    Start with the problem

    What are you trying to solve?

    PLC data to SQL Server

    Move production events into a database with an explicit result returned to the controller.

    Review the integration

    Slow or unreliable events

    Find out whether the time went into tag collection, database work or result write-back.

    See event diagnostics

    Traceability and containment

    Follow product and supplier-lot genealogy when quality needs an answer.

    Explore traceability

    Recipes and production rules

    Review how a record can support BOM checks, routing and production decisions.

    See production workflows

    From the source to the answer

    1. Your controllerThe process values and events.
    2. Event Engine®Move the event. Return the result.
    3. IntelliTrack™Connect the unit, operation, material and outcome.
    4. Your peopleInvestigate, enforce and improve — with reports and optional AI.

    A typical combined architecture. Either product can also serve a separate role.

    Who we are

    Built by people who did it by hand first.

    Years of plant-floor integration taught us that collecting a value is only the beginning. You also need to know what it belongs to — and whether the event completed.

    That experience shapes how we build, explain and support our software. We favor inspectable records, explicit outcomes and configuration your engineering team can understand.

    Our story and operating principles →

    Two products. Connected purpose.

    Start where your operation needs a better answer.

    Manufacturing execution & traceability

    IntelliTrack™

    Which product is affected — and should it move?

    IntelliTrack genealogy tree with linked product generations
    Actual product screen: follow the relationships behind a unit. Select image to enlarge.

    Build a per-unit, per-operation record. Apply configured production rules, investigate genealogy and quality, and ask questions of the record through reports and governed AI.

    Explore traceability & execution

    PLC-to-database middleware

    Event Engine®

    Did the event finish — and where did the time go?

    Event Engine history with collection, work and write-back durations
    Actual product screen: inspect an event and its individual phases. Select image to enlarge.

    Connect controllers to databases, printers and messaging. Configure structured data exchange, return completion results and investigate timing or failures.

    Download the 30-day trialExplore PLC integration →

    Recognize the problem?

    Bring the question your current systems cannot answer.

    A station starts slowing down.

    Separate PLC collection, database work and write-back time before deciding where to investigate. See the diagnostics →

    How we approach the work

    Trust is built into the details.

    Capture at the source

    Tie process values to the unit and operation that produced them.

    Acknowledge, never assume

    Give control logic an explicit result to check before it continues.

    Enforce while it’s cheap

    Apply the configured rules while work is in progress.

    Say what ships

    Explain capabilities, dependencies and limits so you can make an informed choice.

    Start with one problem

    Tell us one decision you make on incomplete information.

    Bring a quality question, an event that needs to work reliably, or a data flow you need to connect. We’ll discuss the fit and a practical way to evaluate it.

    Talk to an engineer
    Engineering comes first

    Why engineers work with FDS

    Discuss the actual interface

    Bring your controller, database or production requirement to an engineering conversation.

    Talk to an engineer

    Event Engine® and IntelliTrack™ can also be used separately. Integration requirements depend on the existing equipment and systems.