What this solution is (and isn’t)
Our dashboards provide a single view of performance showing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), downtime, throughput, and quality across lines, sites, or entire operations. They gather data from PLCs, historians, MES and ERP systems, and present it as accessible, management-level information. Users can drill into the data to identify loss factors, track improvement initiatives, and spot emerging patterns that affect productivity or quality before they become issues.
This isn’t another SCADA interface. It’s designed to complement your control systems by giving a clear, consolidated view of production performance without interfering with live operations. The emphasis is on analytics rather than control. The dashboards turn data into actionable intelligence that supports continuous improvement, energy efficiency, and operational excellence.
Connecting the shop floor to the boardroom
We design solutions that bridge the gap between OT and IT, securely collecting, structuring and presenting data so you can make informed, data-driven decisions.
Typical architectures include:
- OT layer: PLCs, HMIs, OPC UA servers, historians and IIoT gateways providing machine and process data.
- Enterprise layer: Data aggregation, contextualisation, analytics and visualisation.
- Integration: Links with MES, ERP and CMMS to connect OEE data with production orders, maintenance events and performance trends.
The result is a trusted, shared view of operational performance across your organisation helping teams identify bottlenecks, plan maintenance, and measure improvement. With built-in analytics and visualisation tools, teams can benchmark performance across products, shifts or facilities, run root-cause analysis, and generate reports that support strategic planning and investment decisions.
Powered by expertise, not tied to a platform
As a PTC ThingWorx partner, we have deep experience delivering IIoT and analytics solutions on one of the industry’s leading platforms. However, our approach is deliberately vendor agnostic. Every site and operation is different, and we always start by understanding your existing infrastructure, data sources and business priorities before recommending the best fit, whether that’s ThingWorx, another commercial IIoT platform, or an open technology stack.
Our goal is to ensure your dashboards integrate cleanly with what you already have, add real value to your operations, and provide a clear route for future digital initiatives like predictive maintenance and condition monitoring. By embedding analytics from the outset, we help you evolve from reactive monitoring to proactive and predictive decision-making.
Why Fairfields
With over 35 years’ experience delivering complex automation, control and safety systems, Fairfields understands the data journey from field to enterprise. Our engineers and analysts combine deep control-system expertise with modern IIoT and analytics capabilities, creating solutions that bridge operational and business systems securely and effectively. We don’t just show data. We help you understand what it means, why it matters, and how to use it to drive measurable improvement.
