Pragmatos Nexus

Walk your plant in 3D, with each connected machine live.

Nexus is a 3D model of your plant that shows each machine's live state: plant, cells and machines in 3D with the live state from Pragmatos Live, and the maintenance job on a tablet at the machine. It shows; it never touches a control.

A long machine hall seen from the entrance, rows of turning and milling centres, a press and a conveyor; one stack light glows far down an aisle while a young technician, seen from behind, looks at a paper plan
Alarm: coolant pressure lowattention · somewhere in Hall 2
A paper planno state, no parts, no way to the fault

What the new technician asks

  • Which machine is it?
  • Which part of the machine?
  • What do I do first?

Today the answer is a walk and a phone call.

Where is it, and what is wrong with it? A new technician, a hall full of machines and an alarm somewhere down an aisle. A paper plan does not say which machine, or which part of it.
The whole plant as a 3D model on a pale blue floor: turning and milling centres, a press, two conveyors, a coolant tank with its filters and an air compressor at their places, teal lines running between them, coloured markers on the working parts and one hollow ring where a reading is missing
Nexusin the browser, read-only
Machining centre 14 · spindlein band
Machining centre 9 · tool magazineattention
Coolant pumpno reading · drawn hollow
38 of 40 signals livethe header of every 3D view
The plant in 3D, live. Every machine stands where it stands on your floor, and its state sits on the part it belongs to: spindle, tool magazine, cabinet, pump. A missing reading is drawn hollow.
A maintenance technician, seen from behind, holds a tablet up to an open machining centre; on the tablet the same machine appears in 3D with only its tool magazine highlighted; a card lists the three steps of the job
Nexusin the browser, read-only
Safety note on step 1shown before the enclosure opens

Job: tool changer check

  • 1 Switch off and lock out at the isolator
  • 2 Open the door, check the tool magazine
  • 3Check the gripper on the tool changer

Each step lights the part it is about.

The job at the machine. On a tablet at the machine, each step of the job lights the part it is about. Steps that open the enclosure carry their safety note.

Your plant as it stands, with its state where it happens

Nexus is a 3D model of your plant that shows each machine's live state. It shows the plant, its cells and its machines in 3D, each machine at its true place, with the live state from Pragmatos Live on the parts it belongs to. At the machine, it runs maintenance jobs on a tablet or a headset, step by step. Nexus only shows: it reads from Pragmatos Live and writes nothing back.

In the Pragmatos loop, Nexus is a way of looking at See and Analyze. What Pragmatos Live sees and what Pulse finds appear in space, on the machine and the part, where people look for them, not in a list.

  1. ConnectLoom
  2. SeeLive
  3. AnalyzePulse
  4. DecideOrbis
  5. ActFlow
  6. ProveDecisions
Nexus See and Analyze, in space
3Dplant, cells and machines, each at its true place
4views: plant, cell, machine and the job at the machine
1plant model, shared with every Pragmatos module
0write paths to any control

The plant: every machine where it stands, in the state it is in

Nexus

The first question at any alarm is where. Nexus answers it before anyone walks: the whole plant in 3D, each hall, line, cell and machine where it stands on your floor, coloured by its live state.

The 3D comes from the plant model you already keep in Pragmatos, so no CAD project is needed. Move a machine on the floor plan and it moves in Nexus too.

Turn, zoom and move through the hall in the browser, or jump to a set view of a machine or a cell with one click.

Pragmatos floor plan, German screen: turning and milling areas above the main aisle, the store, measuring room, compressed air and electrical rooms below, each machine drawn at its place
What it shows: the floor plan Nexus starts from, here on a German screen. Each machine has its place on it; Nexus raises the same plan into 3D.

How the state is shown

State on the partSpindle, tool magazine, cabinet, pump: each reading sits on the part it belongs to.
Stale looks staleA reading that stopped updating is drawn dull, so it is never read as current.
Missing says no dataA part with no reading is drawn hollow and says no data, never a guess.
Live signals countedThe header of every view says how many signals are live, such as 38 of 40.
Set viewsOne click to a fixed view of the machine or the cell, then turn and zoom freely.

A machine: the fault on the part, not in a list

Nexus

Open a machine and it stands in 3D with its working parts: spindle, axes, tool magazine, cabinet, coolant pump, stack light. Each part carries its live state, in band, needing attention, stale or without a reading.

An alarm on the tool magazine lights the tool magazine. The technician sees which part before opening a door, and what the other parts of the machine are doing at the same moment.

From a finding in Pulse, a work order in Flow or a proposal in Orbis, one click opens that machine in 3D.

A machining centre in 3D cutaway: spindle, work table, chain tool magazine, coolant tank and pump, electrical cabinet and stack light, with coloured markers on the tool magazine, spindle and cabinet and a hollow ring on the coolant tank
What it shows: one machine in 3D with its state on its parts: spindle and cabinet in band, tool magazine needing attention, the coolant tank hollow because it has no reading.

A cell: the machines and the plant that keeps them running

Nexus

A cell is more than its machines. Nexus shows a cell's machines under their gantry together with the coolant plant, the air plant and the electrical panel that serve them, and the pipes that join them.

When the cell stops, the cause is often behind the machines: low coolant pressure, an air dryer in alarm, a tripped breaker. In the cell view it sits beside the machines it stopped.

A production cell in 3D: four machining centres in a row under a gantry loader, with the coolant plant, the air plant and an electrical panel along the wall and pipes to every machine
What it shows: a cell with its machines, its gantry and the plant that serves it. Pipes with a measured flow move; the others stand still.
Coolant and air flow only when measuredA pipe animates when its flow is read, and stands still when it is not.
A tripped breaker is namedPower is never animated; a breaker that trips is named on the panel.
An unreported tank is drawn emptyNo level reading, no fill colour.

At the machine: the maintenance job, step by step, on the part

Nexus

At the machine, the technician opens the job on a tablet or a headset. The machine appears in 3D, and each step of the job lights the part it is about: the isolator, the door, the tool magazine, the gripper.

Every machine carries its maintenance jobs. A step that asks for a signal the machine does not send is left out, so the job never asks for a value that is not there. Steps that open the enclosure or touch the isolator carry their safety note.

A technician in a hard hat, seen from behind, kneels at the coolant pump and filter; the filter housing glows violet as the part for the current step, three step markers float beside it with the first ticked, and the isolator lever on the wall is padlocked
What it shows: a maintenance job at the machine: the part for the current step outlined, the steps done ticked, and the isolator locked out as step 1 asks.
On a tablet or a headsetOn screen, in VR, or as AR on the floor next to the real machine.
Table-top, half or full sizeStudy the machine on the desk, or stand beside it at full size.
Jobs per machineEach step lights the part it is about. A step that asks for a signal the machine does not send is left out.

Nexus is not a safety function. It never replaces the machine's own safety systems: the guards, interlocks and emergency stops, and your lockout procedure, stay as they are and stay in charge. Nexus shows the job; people follow the plant's procedure.

Training and visits: learn the floor, and show it

Nexus

A new technician learns where things are before learning how they work. In Nexus the hall, its lines, its cells and the utilities behind them can be walked on a screen in the first week, and a maintenance job can be practised on a desk at table-top size.

For a customer visit, an audit or the management meeting, the plant shows on one screen in the layout everyone recognises, with its live state on it.

Five people on a glass gallery above a machine hall; a manager points at a large screen showing the hall in 3D while the lathes, press and conveyor stand on the floor below
What it shows: the plant in 3D on a wall screen for a visit, in the same order as the hall below the gallery.
New staff learn the hall firstWhere each line, cell and utility sits, before the first walk on the floor.
Visitors see the whole plantOne screen for a tour, an audit or a customer visit, with the hall below in the same order.
Management sees it in placeThe state of the plant in the layout people already know, not in a table.

A morning in Hall 2: from finding to fix

Nexus

One finding, one technician three weeks into the job, a hall full of machines.

  1. A finding comes inPulse flags the tool magazine on machining centre 9 in Hall 2. The technician on shift joined three weeks ago.
  2. Nexus opens on the findingOne click from the finding in Pulse opens machining centre 9 in 3D on a tablet. 38 of 40 signals are live. The tool magazine is amber. The coolant pump is drawn hollow: no reading, so nobody takes it for fine.
  3. At the machineThe technician opens the job "tool changer check": three steps. Step 1 carries the safety note: switch off and lock out at the isolator before the door opens.
  4. The part, litStep 3 lights the gripper on the tool changer. A worn gripper finger is found and replaced from stock.
  5. Back in bandThe machine restarts and its tool magazine turns green in Nexus.

Who it's for

Nexus

Pick your role to see what changes for you.

If you are called to a stop and have to find the fault:

  • The alarm sits on the part in 3D, so you know which machine and which part before you set off.
  • The job for that machine runs on a tablet at the machine, each step lighting its part, with the safety note on the steps that open the enclosure.
  • A missing or stale reading looks missing or stale, so nobody takes it for a live one.

If you answer for the whole plant:

  • The plant in 3D, every machine at its place and in its state, in the layout your people already know.
  • A stop in the utilities room shows beside the machines it feeds, so the cause is in view, not two screens away.
  • The same view serves the morning meeting, the audit and the customer visit.

If you plan the lines and the cells:

  • Each cell in 3D with its machines, gantry and the coolant, air and electrical plant that serve it.
  • Which machine waits on which utility shows in the cell, not in a list of tags.
  • Every machine sits on the plant model you keep once in Pragmatos, so the layout and the data agree.

If you run the shift:

  • One look at the hall shows what runs, what needs attention and what has no reading.
  • You send the right person to the right part, with the job already on their tablet.
  • The header says how many signals are live, so a quiet screen is never mistaken for a calm shift.

If you are new to the plant, or you teach those who are:

  • Learn the hall, the lines and the utilities in 3D before the first walk on the floor.
  • Practise a maintenance job at table-top size on a desk before doing it at the machine.
  • Each step shows the part it is about, so the job reads the same for the first-week starter and the twenty-year hand.

If you own the plant and show it to others:

  • Show customers, banks and visitors the whole plant and its live state on one screen.
  • Nexus runs on the plant model and the data Pragmatos already holds: no CAD project, nothing to install on the machines.
  • It runs where you choose: on premise in your plant, in your own cloud, or both.

If you look after the controls and the plant network:

  • Nexus reads from Pragmatos Live and writes nothing back. There is no path from Nexus to a control, a setpoint or a program.
  • It runs in a web browser with nothing to install on the PCs, tablets or headsets.
  • It shows only what Loom connects and Pragmatos Live holds, so there is one source of the data, not a second one.

If you sign off how maintenance work is done:

  • Steps that open the enclosure or touch the isolator carry their safety note in the job.
  • Nexus is not a safety function. Guards, interlocks and your lockout procedure stay as they are and stay in charge.
  • Each job runs at the machine it belongs to, step by step. Your plant's procedure stays in charge.

Nexus shows, people act. It reads the live state from Pragmatos Live and writes nothing back: no path to a control, a setpoint or a program. It runs in the browser, on premise in your plant, in your own cloud, or both: you choose.

Walk your plant in Nexus, with your own floor plan.

The one-page sheet

Pragmatos on one page, to pass to your colleagues.

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Readiness self-assessment

Where your plant stands before the first machine is connected.

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OEE reality check: the calculator

See how far a reported OEE can sit from one that counts micro-stops and speed loss.

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The arguments behind Nexus, one problem at a time.

Questions maintenance and plant managers ask

An alarm from a machine, shown on a phone
No. Nexus reads the live state from Pragmatos Live and writes nothing back. It has no path to a control, a setpoint or a program.
No. The 3D plant comes from the plant model you already keep in Pragmatos: halls, lines, cells and machines, each at its place on the floor plan.
A web browser on a PC, a tablet or a headset. There is nothing to install on them, and the 3D runs in the browser.
The part it belongs to says no data instead of showing an old value as current. A reading that has gone stale looks stale, and the header of every view counts how many signals are live. If the connection drops, Nexus keeps the last snapshot on screen and says so.
Yes. A job runs on screen, in VR or as AR on the floor, at table-top, half or full size. Each step lights the part it is about.
Nexus shows what Pragmatos Live sees and what Pulse finds, in space. From a finding in Pulse, a work order in Flow or a proposal in Orbis, one click opens that machine in 3D.
On premise in your plant, in your own cloud, or both: you choose. In a hybrid set-up, the edge computer in each plant reads the machines, buffers through a network drop and sends on only the data you choose.