Capture at the source
Capture the event where it happens and connect it to the product and process.
Why Factory Data Systems
Built by people who did it by hand first.
Our products came from repeated work connecting plant-floor automation to business systems. The lesson was consistent: data only becomes useful when people can trust its context and its outcome.
Our background
The hard part was never just the protocol.
Which unit? Which operation? Which recipe revision? Which material lot? And did the write actually complete?
Factory Data Systems was founded and is run by an engineer whose background includes more than a decade at a major automation vendor working on plant-floor event middleware, followed by manufacturing integration work.
Event Engine® grew out of the recurring need to connect controllers and databases. IntelliTrack™ grew out of the need for the complete manufacturing record those events should feed.
That is why our work starts with the process and the question you need answered.
What we build to
Our principles have practical consequences.
Structure over logs
Preserve named values and relationships people can investigate later.
Acknowledge, never assume
Make the result explicit, including when something fails.
Configure, don’t code
Use supported configurations and reusable structures; define custom integration where it is needed.
Enforce while it’s cheap
Apply production rules at the relevant step, before problems travel downstream.
Measure ourselves
Expose execution timing and errors so the integration can be evaluated.
Your infrastructure, your decisions
Plan deployment and access with your IT team. Make external services and AI data flows explicit.
Say what ships
Describe the delivered capability and its limits. Distinguish measured examples from promises.
How we work
Directly, or with the integrator you already trust.
With manufacturers
Start with a production question. Map the existing controllers, databases and workflows, then define the implementation and acceptance criteria.
With integrators
Use our products within your project and discuss configuration and integration questions with FDS engineering.
With machine builders
Plan event handshakes, recipe exchange and product-result capture as part of the machine’s interface.
Implementation scope, support arrangements and licensing are part of that conversation. We want the fit to be clear before you commit.
Start with one problem
Your process comes first.
Tell us what the current system cannot tell you, or what your next machine needs to do.