Automated Industrial Reporting — Capture Platform
Automated Reporting

Your shift reports
shouldn't take three hours to build.

Connect Capture to your machines, MES, ERP and historians, and your shift reports, management overviews and real-time alerts write themselves.

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Trusted by production teams at
Poppies Bakeries Voestalpine Sadef La Lorraine Vanheede Environment Rockwool TVH Stellantis

If any of these sound familiar,
you're already paying the price.

Your machines generate data continuously. The problem isn't the data. It's what happens between the machine and the report.

01

The 45-minute morning ritual

Every shift starts with someone manually copying data between systems to build a report that's already out of date by the time it reaches them.

02

Four sites. Four Excel templates.

Each plant has its own version. Different columns, different definitions, different update frequencies. Comparing performance across sites is a weekend project.

03

A six-hour blind spot

A production issue went undetected for six hours because no one was watching the right numbers. By the time the report surfaced it, the batch was already lost.

04

Your best engineers doing the wrong work

Your CI leads and process engineers spend somewhere between a quarter and a third of their project time collecting and cleaning data. That's time not spent on the improvement work you hired them for.

05

SCADA, MES, ERP: no one talks

Three systems. Three versions of truth. Someone is manually copying between them, every time. The integration project has been on the roadmap for two years.

06

Knowledge trapped in one person's head

Reporting logic, KPI definitions, shift templates: they live in one Excel file, maintained by one person. When that person is off, the report doesn't happen.

"This isn't a tooling problem. It's structural." Your machines already generate the data. The problem is that nobody has wired those systems together.
Let's talk about your setup
How it works

Reporting that runs itself.
Built on your existing systems.

Capture does not replace what you already have. It connects it, structures it, and turns it into reports that go out without anyone pressing send.

1

Connect your data

Edge devices connect directly to machines, PLCs, historians, MES and ERP via OPC-UA, MQTT, Modbus and REST APIs. No changes to your existing systems. No production risk.

2

Structure your data

Define your machines, lines, shifts and KPIs once in a unified namespace. Capture applies those definitions across every line, every site, every shift, from that point on.

3

Automate your reporting

Shift reports, management overviews and threshold alerts are generated and distributed automatically. By the next shift, your team has the report in their inbox, without touching Excel.

Data flow — from machine signal to automated report
SCADA
MES
ERP
Historian
PLCs & Sensors
Capture Platform
Unified Namespace + Automated Reporting
Edge collect KPI definitions Auto-distribute
Shift Report (PDF)
Management Overview
Real-time Alerts

No changes to your existing SCADA, MES, ERP or Historian. Capture sits alongside what you already have, reading the data without rewriting your systems.

Available in the Capture App Framework

The Reporting app that ships with Capture

Shift reports, management overviews and threshold alerts, written automatically from your machine data. Your team gets the numbers, without anyone building them.

Automated shift reports, PDF and email Real-time dashboards per line and site Threshold alerts at the moment of deviation One KPI definition across all sites Management overviews, auto-distributed
Capture Platform — Reporting
Capture Reporting app: template builder with live report preview, shift KPIs, graphs and downtime tables

Want to know what this would change in your plant specifically?

Not a product demo. A conversation about your specific reporting setup.

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You'll speak with someone who's been on factory floors, not in a sales deck · Food, energy, plastics & discrete manufacturing
Customer results

Already running in production.

Here's what happened at two plants that made the switch.

Food & Beverage

Poppies Bakeries

Four bakery sites across Belgium
The situation
Four sites, each tracking OEE differently. Shift reports compiled manually, three hours of work per shift, per site. Morning meetings opened with a debate about whose numbers were right.
What changed
All four sites now report from the same numbers. Shift data available in real time. Automated distribution at the end of every shift.
Result
Zero manual reporting work, across all four sites.
0 min
manual reporting time per shift, down from 3 hours
Steel & Metal Processing

Voestalpine Sadef

Multi-PLC steel processing plant
The situation
Machines across the floor each spoke a different language. No single place to see how the plant was running. Operational decisions made on memory, instinct and end-of-day summaries.
What changed
Data collection live within two hours of proof-of-concept launch. An edge setup that can grow as more machines come online, built on existing infrastructure, without replacing a single system.
Result
From zero operational visibility to live data and automated reporting in one afternoon.
2 hrs
from proof-of-concept to live data collection
The shift from manual to automated: what it looks like in practice
Before Capture After Capture
45-minute manual shift report, every shift Zero manual reporting work
Four sites, four different KPI definitions Single standard applied across all locations
Issues surface hours after they occur Real-time threshold alerts at the moment of occurrence
Decisions based on yesterday's data Numbers from last night's shifts, available when the morning meeting starts
CI engineers cleaning data, not improving operations Project time spent on improvement, not data collection
Board reports built from interpretation and memory Management overviews built from actual machine data, distributed automatically

Find out if this makes
sense for your operation.

Not every setup is ready. Not every problem is ours to solve. A 30-minute conversation will tell you whether Capture is the right fit, and if so, what a realistic first step looks like.

What we'll cover in 30 minutes

  • Your current reporting setup and where it breaks down
  • Which systems need to be connected (SCADA, MES, ERP, historians, Excel)
  • How many sites and lines you're working across
  • How long until your first report runs without anyone building it
  • Whether Capture is the right fit — honestly
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Read this before you decide

What nobody tells you
about industrial reporting.

Four articles from the Capture team, written for operations managers, CI leads and directors who are still deciding whether automated reporting is worth the move.
Data quality
Why your reporting is actually destroying your data
How manual processes introduce errors and inconsistencies that compound over time, and why the problem gets worse with every site you add.
6 min read Read article →
Operations
Excel is not a data platform
Why Excel was never built for live factory data, and what that costs your operations every quarter.
5 min read Read article →
Architecture
Historical data without context is worthless
Why raw data from your historian doesn't automatically become useful information, and how to turn it into something people can actually use.
6 min read Read article →
Strategy
Visibility is not intelligence
Why a live dashboard alone is not enough to run your floor differently, and what the missing layer is.
7 min read Read article →