Not a ticket queue. Not a quarterly roadmap vote. A vendor small enough to know your line by name — running software hardened across years of manufacturing.
There's a third option you stopped looking for: pre-built where it should be, customized where it has to be. We've been inside enough plants to know the difference — you shouldn't have to teach your software what a shift change is.
Buy it cheap. Spend six months bending your plant to fit a vendor's idea of manufacturing. Discover the gap that doesn't quite work — and add a spreadsheet.
Dashboards, scoreboards, downtime, PLC connectivity — already built. Samples, qualifications, temporary work instructions, the way your plant runs them — customized to match.
Pay a generalist dev shop and spend six months explaining what a work order is. Pay again to explain it to the next developer who joins their team.
No demos before the plant visit. No customization before the integration. No code before the conversation.
We walk your floor. We meet your operators, your supervisors, and your controls engineers. We learn how the plant actually runs — not how the org chart says it does. Nothing gets quoted, scoped, or built before this step is finished.
We wire FactoryView into what you already run. PLCs and equipment for live counts. ERP for orders and BOMs. The spreadsheets that won't die, until they're ready to. One source of truth, built on top of what's already there.
We adapt FactoryView to your processes — samples, qualifications, temporary work instructions, maintenance flows, shift reports. AI made this step faster than it was in 2011; it did not make it shallower. Same engineers, same depth.
You don't pay us to invent what's already standard. You pay us to make the standard fit your plant.
Dashboards for the office. Scoreboards for the floor. Phone and inbox notifications for downtime, overdue tasks, and the kind of events nobody should have to find out about from a 7am email.
Performance against target cycle times, by operator and by line. Downtime by work center, with drill-down into reason codes. Standardized shift reports across every plant — not five different spreadsheets per site.
Templates for the things every plant runs, ready to be customized to your work. Implement only the modules you need today; add the rest as the operation matures. No license cliffs, no "enterprise tier."
Direct equipment data collection from PLC-based equipment. ERP connectivity for orders, BOMs, and inventory context. An extensible platform that integrates with just about any third-party API you put in front of it.
Our clients run quiet plants and they like it that way. We honor that. So instead of a logo wall, here's what we can say.
A short field guide for plant managers and ops directors. Not every plant tracks all four — OEE is nearly universal; the others come up in most ops meetings. We cover the math, the common ways each metric gets fudged in reporting, and a fill-in worksheet per metric.
Inside: the four metrics, the formulas behind them, the common ways each number gets fudged in reporting, and a fill-in worksheet you can run in your next stand-up.
Free. No email gate, no nurture sequence, no upsell. Read it, use it, and if it sparks a conversation we're happy to schedule a call.
Free. Interactive worksheets that auto-compute the strict version of each metric, side-by-side with what your plant reports today. No email, no follow-up. Talk to an engineer only if you ask.
Open the guideThose are products. We're a product plus the engineers who customize it to your plant. You can't buy a Tulip rep who'll spend a week on your floor; you can buy our whole approach. That's the trade-off, and it's deliberate.
Our clients ask for privacy and we honor that. We'll arrange a reference call directly, one client at a time. If a logo wall is what closes the deal for you, we're probably not your vendor.
It varies enough by plant, equipment, and integration scope that a number on this page would be misleading. A temporary work instruction system that's stand-alone and doesn't integrate with anything is significantly quicker to get up and running than a full shopfloor integration with 100+ PLC's.
For most plants: a first useful deployment in weeks, not quarters. Full custom modules layer in over months as we learn your operation. We don't do eighteen-month MES rollouts and we won't quote one.
Yes, inside our process — to ship customizations faster than we could in 2011. No, not as a marketing layer on the product. You will not see "AI-powered" anywhere on a dashboard we build for you.
Common. We can sit alongside it, replace it in stages, or take it out entirely. The first call is mostly figuring out which of those three is right for your situation.
We'll ask about your plant. You'll ask about FactoryView. If it's a fit, we'll book a floor visit. If it isn't, we'll tell you — and recommend who is.