A plant that runs the same way every shift.
Every station on the current revision. Every check captured as the work happens. Every job leaving a record you can pull in seconds. Start with digital work instructions and be live in weeks. Add scheduling, quality, and equipment data when you are ready.
What changes on the floor
- 01
The schedule lives on the floor, not in a spreadsheet on someone’s desk.
- 02
A new hire runs the job correctly on day two, not week six.
- 03
Quality data is captured at the station as the work happens, not typed in at the end of shift.
- 04
When a line goes down, the supervisor already knows.
- 05
Traceability is a query, not a filing cabinet.
None of that requires replacing what you already run.
Start here. ForgeOS Method.
Digital work instructions for the plant launching its next product. Author from CAD, video, PDF, or voice. Deploy to tablets or to RealWear HMT-1 smartglasses. Quality checkpoints, barcode scanning, and full traceability are built in, not sold as add-ons.
Launch Pilot
$2,500 one time
Six weeks on one production line, run with your team.
- ✓Six weeks, one production line
- ✓Up to ten work instructions authored with your team
- ✓Two RealWear HMT-1 headsets included
- ✓The full $2,500 credits toward your first annual if you continue
After the pilot
The $2,500 credits in full toward your first annual.
Method Annual
$12,000/ year
Includes two RealWear HMT-1 smartglasses. Additional headsets $397 each.
Method Monthly
$1,000/ month
Headsets $397 per unit.
- ✓Unlimited users
- ✓Unlimited work instructions
- ✓All software features included
- ✓No minimums, no per-seat math
Seven plants. One line our competitors cannot write.
Seven connected-worker deployments across automotive, appliance, industrial, and logistics.
- BSH
- Bühler
- BMW North America
- DHL Supply Chain
- Unipres
We implemented, customized, integrated, trained, and supported those rollouts. For two of them we shipped the operator experience under the customer’s own brand. We learned what works at that scale, what breaks, and what a plant actually needs on the floor. ForgeOS is what we built when we wanted to do it our way.
When work instructions are not enough
Method is one part of ForgeOS. Production scheduling, quality with live SPC, equipment and machine data, and ERP connection all run on the same platform. Work instructions attach to production operations automatically when you expand. No migration, no second vendor, no second login.
See the full platformAlready have systems in place?
ForgeOS connects to what you have. No rip and replace. Keep Rockwell, Siemens, or SAP where they are and modernize the layer your operators actually touch.
If you are running a legacy MES that takes eighteen months to change, ForgeOS Modernization sits on top of it and gives you a path forward without a shutdown.
Native data platform integration.
Cognite CDF and DataMosaix supported out of the box.
See it built live
On a fifteen minute call, tell us a feature you need and we build it while you watch. Not a mockup. A working feature running on the platform. If we cannot, we do not ask for a next step.
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All guidesHow Long Should an MES Implementation Take?
The industry average is 12 to 18 months. Six structural reasons that has nothing to do with your operation, and five questions to ask any vendor before you sign.
Legacy MES Modernization
Your upgrade quote buys a hardened backend and the same screens. Rip and replace throws away a decade of genealogy. There is a third option.
What Are Digital Work Instructions in Manufacturing?
Four document types manufacturers confuse, five things paper fundamentally cannot do, and how to know whether your operation needs this yet.
Operator-Centered Design in Manufacturing
Most plant interfaces are built by engineers for engineers. Operators reject them, and the standard response is more training. Here is the alternative.
Nobody Wants to Rip Out Their MES
A rip and replace throws away the one thing that took a decade to earn: trust in the record. How to fix the experience without the cutover.
Design for the Person Wearing the Gloves
Information density should be inversely proportional to how well things are going. Three screens from one station, and what a welder taught us about what to leave out.