Andons

When I was at Toyota, we didn't accept unplanned downtime as a cost of doing business. We treated it as a signal — something in the system was broken, and the Andon was how you found it fast.

That mindset is still the one I build products around.

A Safran facility recently deployed our wireless Andon system across their floor. In the months that followed, they documented a 49% decrease in unplanned downtime.

Not a rounding error. Not a one-time event. A repeatable result that came from making the signal visible, getting the right people to the problem faster, and recording every occurrence so the team could actually analyze and fix root causes.

If you're running a factory and your current system makes it hard to see where time is being lost, I'd be glad to walk you through what a wireless Andon setup looks like in practice.