Pragmatos

One screen for the whole shop, and a record of every decision.

Pragmatos connects the machines you have, shows the plant on one screen, reads the trends, proposes what to do and keeps the record. It runs on premise in your plant, in your own cloud, or both: you choose. Pragmatos reads, people act.

Monday morning in a plant office: paper shift logs, a clipboard and three small monitors that each show something different, with the machining hall behind the window
1Shift logon paper, in the office
2Machine screensone per maker, each its own way
3Energya spreadsheet, a month late
4Maintenanceits own tool, its own list

Questions that take the morning

  • Which machines stopped overnight?
  • Why, and for how long?
  • Who is already on it?

Five places to look, and no two agree.

Monday, 07:00: five places to look. The shift log, three machine screens, an energy spreadsheet and the maintenance tool. Every answer sits in a different one, and the morning goes on finding it.
A calm plant office above the hall: one large wall screen shows a ring of six steps around a small floor plan, with each machine as a coloured dot

One loop, one data model

  • Connect · Loom
  • See · Pragmatos Live
  • Analyze · Pulse
  • Decide · Orbis
  • Act · Flow
  • Prove · Decisions

On premise or in your own cloud, with every figure showing its source and age.

One loop, one screen. Pragmatos connects the machines you have, old and new, shows the whole shop on one screen, reads the trends, proposes what to do, turns the approval into work and keeps the record.
A maintenance lead seen from behind beside a large pump, holding a tablet with one proposal card and an approve button, a vibration line drawn rising above the pump
Cooling pump 2watch · vibration rising, shift on shift

Orbis proposes

  • A matching case, confirmed on this pump before
  • Seal in stock, and Friday's planned stop is free
  • Change the seal at that stop

Approved by the maintenance lead, on the record.

Orbis proposes, a person decides. Orbis shows what it proposes and what it rests on. The person with the right role approves it or turns it down, and both stay on the record.

What it is: one loop from the machine to the record

Pragmatos

Pragmatos is the operations platform for a manufacturing plant. It connects the machines you have, shows the whole plant on one screen, reads the trends, proposes what to do, turns the approval into work and keeps the record. Nine modules, the loop and the systems around it, share one data model, so a reading, a proposal, a work order and its result are one chain. It runs on premise in your plant, in your own cloud, or both, beside your MES and ERP.

  1. ConnectLoom Machines, meters and utilities, old and new, read where they stand.
  2. SeeLive The whole plant on one screen, by role, every figure with its source and age.
  3. AnalyzePulse Trends, condition, quality and energy, machine by machine.
  4. DecideOrbis A proposal with its evidence. A person with the right role decides.
  5. ActFlow The approval becomes a work order, on the shift board and in the ERP.
  6. ProveDecisions Every proposal, approval and outcome on a tamper-evident record.

Pragmatos reads, people act. Orbis proposes, and the person with the right role decides.

Connect: the machines you have, read where they stand

Loom

Loom AI reads the controls, PLCs, energy meters and utilities already in the plant, from last year's machining centre to a lathe that only has a stack light. It reads and never writes, so nothing on the machine changes.

Where nobody knows what a machine can report, Loom AI reads the maker's manual or watches the live signals and proposes what to record. A person confirms the list, and a person with the right role approves each machine's settings before it takes part in any decision.

How Loom connects each machine

Pragmatos screen: a list of machines during set-up, each with its connection state and the time of its last data
What it shows: the machine list during set-up: which machines are connected, when each last sent data, and which have sent none yet.
Pragmatos screen: values read from one machine control, with source, type, value and quality per row
What it shows: the values read from one control, each with its source, its type, the latest value and its quality.

See: the whole plant on one screen, by role

Live

Each person opens Pragmatos to a day screen built for their role: what needs them now, their work today, what they are watching, and the plant at a glance. Hall 1 and Hall 2 are counted the same way, so they compare on the same terms.

Every figure says what it rests on and how old it is. When a machine stops sending, the figure says so and shows the time of the last reading, rather than holding on to an old number.

What Pragmatos Live shows, screen by screen

Pragmatos day screen: a list headed Needs me now, with a proposed containment step and a machine whose effectiveness has dropped
What it shows: the Needs me now list, with a proposed containment step and a machine whose effectiveness has dropped against its own baseline.
Pragmatos screen in German: one machine with its state over the day, spindle load, power and tool life
What it shows: one machine, in German: its state over the day, spindle load, power and tool life left.
Pragmatos hall plan in German: turning, milling, the store and saws, the measuring room, compressed air and power distribution, each machine where it stands
What it shows: the hall plan, in German: turning, milling, the store, the measuring room, compressed air and power distribution, each machine where it stands.
Pragmatos energy chart in German: load per plant over the current day, three plants on one chart
What it shows: load per plant over the day, three plants on one chart, in German.

Analyze: trends, condition and quality, machine by machine

Pulse

Pulse reads your own plant data: each machine against its own baseline, the condition of spindles, tools and feed axes, process capability for quality, and energy per machine and per part. A slow change shows up while there is still time to plan the repair, which is what predictive maintenance is for.

Ask your plant a question in plain words and the answer comes from your data, with its sources shown. The language model behind it runs inside your installation.

What Pulse reads in your data

Pragmatos analysis screen: trend charts for machine state, spindle load, parts produced and active power, with a help panel
What it shows: trends for machine state, spindle load, parts produced and active power side by side, with a help panel for when something looks wrong.
Pragmatos screen in German: a list of tool changes falling due, each with its machine's state
What it shows: tool changes falling due, machine by machine, with each machine's state beside it, in German.

Decide: Orbis proposes, a person decides

Orbis

Orbis turns what Pulse sees into one proposal per issue, not a flood of alarms. A smart language model works in an ensemble with statistical and physical methods, and it learns from every decision a person confirms, so its proposals get sharper over time.

Every proposal shows how it got there: the readings it used, the rule or model, how much data it rests on, the risk, the reasoning, and what it cannot tell. The person with the right role approves it or turns it down, with a reason. Orbis does not decide.

How Orbis builds a proposal

Pragmatos screen: proposals from Orbis, each with a table headed What this is based on
What it shows: proposals from Orbis, each with a table of what it is based on, waiting for a person to decide.

Act: an approval becomes work

Flow

Once a person approves, Flow turns the decision into a work order with the machine, the shift and the parts it needs. The shift lead sees it on the board, the operator gets it at the terminal, and the completion comes back the same way.

Pragmatos sits beside your MES and ERP. Fabric sends approved work into SAP, proALPHA, Dynamics 365 Business Central or Odoo and brings the completions back. Where a plant has no MES, Flow carries the shop-floor work: orders, stock, maintenance and quality.

How Flow runs the work

Pragmatos screen: a list of work orders with assign and dispatch buttons
What it shows: work orders ready to go out, each to be assigned and dispatched.
Pragmatos shift board in German: machines with their orders, stops waiting for a reason, and the last day's confirmations
What it shows: the shift board, in German: machines and their orders, stops still waiting for a reason, and the last day's confirmations.

Prove: every decision on the record

Decisions

Decisions keeps the whole chain: the reading, the proposal and what it rested on, who approved it in which role and why, the work that followed and how it ended. The record is tamper-evident, and you can export it per machine, per period or for the whole company.

It is designed for the EU AI Act's human-oversight and logging requirements. Whether your use meets the Act is for you and your advisers to assess. When an auditor, a customer or the works council asks why something was done, the answer is in one search of the record. See the loop on plants like yours: Pragmatos in Practice.

What the decision record holds

Pragmatos decision register: a table of decisions with time, type, asset, status, risk, model, confidence, approver and rationale
What it shows: the decision register: when, what kind, which asset, the risk, the model used, the confidence, who approved it and why.
Pragmatos screen: the history of works-council mode, each switch with its date and a note
What it shows: the history of works-council mode, every switch with its date and a note.

Under the loop: the platform and the plant in three dimensions

Platform

Five parts carry the loop. You see most of them only when you need them.

Foundation

One data model under every module. A reading from an old lathe, a quality hold and an ERP work order are described the same way, so a new machine or a new business system plugs into what is there.

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Fabric

The standard link layer inside the Platform: ERP orders in, confirmations out. You configure it. If Fabric has the connector, you configure it from the Platform's screens. If it doesn't, Mateos adds the link: integrate with Mateos.

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Command

Runs Pragmatos across plants: what runs where, which version, and settings checked against the approved baseline. Backup and restore one company at a time.

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Mobile

Alarms with acknowledgement and approvals with a reason, on the phone, and it keeps working through patchy Wi-Fi in the hall.

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Nexus

The plant as a three-dimensional model in its live state, built from the plant model without CAD. A stale reading looks stale. It shows; it does not steer.

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Next for your plant: the systems around the loop

Integrate · Build · Migrate

The loop runs on your machines. Around it sit the systems your plant already owns, and the processes that still live in Excel, on paper, or in a legacy system that does not fit the modern digital highway. Integrate the first with Mateos. Build the second on Helios, on the same foundation Flow runs on. And when the old records have to come along, migrate them with Albatross.

The loop, the systems linked around it, and the gap with no system yetThe Pragmatos loop in the centre: Loom, Live, Pulse, Orbis, Flow, Decisions. Linked around it, the systems your plant already owns: ERP, PLM, CAQ, CMMS, HR and time, finance, legacy databases, files and spreadsheets, EDI with your customers. Integrated with Mateos. One dashed slot for the process with no system yet, in Excel, on paper, in someone's head or in a legacy system that does not fit the modern digital highway: you build it on Helios, beside Flow, and migrate the old data with Albatross. Loom Live Pulse Orbis Flow Decisions The loop on your machines ERP orders, confirmations PLM parts, documents, changes CAQ findings, measures CMMS work orders, completions HR and time shifts, qualifications Finance costs, postings Legacy databases a table or a query EDI with customers call-offs, notices Files and spreadsheets file drops on a schedule No system yet: Excel, paper, someone's head, or a legacy system that does not fit the modern digital highway build it on Helios, beside Flow, on the same foundation the old records migrated with Albatross Integrate with Mateos: the systems you own Build it on Helios: the system you do not have yetThe loop, the systems linked around it, and the gap with no system yetThe Pragmatos loop in the centre: Loom, Live, Pulse, Orbis, Flow, Decisions. Linked around it, the systems your plant already owns: ERP, PLM, CAQ, CMMS, HR and time, finance, legacy databases, files and spreadsheets, EDI with your customers. Integrated with Mateos. One dashed slot for the process with no system yet, in Excel, on paper, in someone's head or in a legacy system that does not fit the modern digital highway: you build it on Helios, beside Flow, and migrate the old data with Albatross.The systems you already own, linked ERP orders, confirmations PLM parts, documents, changes CAQ findings, measures CMMS work orders, completions HR and time shifts, qualifications Finance costs, postings Legacy databases a table or a query EDI with customers call-offs, notices Files and spreadsheets file drops on a schedule Loom Live Pulse Orbis Flow Decisions The loop on your machines to Flow The gap: no system yet Excel, paper, someone's head, or a legacy system that does not fit the modern digital highway build it on Helios, beside Flow the old records migrated with Albatross Integrate with Mateos: the systems you own Build it on Helios: the system you do not have yet
Solid lines: the systems you already own, integrated with Mateos and linked to the loop in both directions. Dashed: the process with no system yet, or a legacy system that does not fit the modern digital highway. You build it on Helios, beside Flow, and the old records move across with Albatross.

Integrate with Mateos: the systems you already own

The systems you already own, integrated with Mateos through Fabric ERP, PLM, CAQ and CMMS integrated with Mateos in both directions through Pragmatos Fabric, with the loop on the floor beneath it. ERP PLM CAQ CMMS Mateos, through Pragmatos Fabric one layer, three strands: API gateway, integration engine, event backbone The loop on the floor Loom · Live · Pulse · Orbis · Flow · Decisions every transfer logged

Orders, parts, documents and changes stay in step between the systems you own and the floor, and every transfer is logged with its result. Where Fabric has the connector, you configure it. Where it has none, Mateos adds the link, including to a legacy database that only answers a query.

Build it on Helios: the system you do not have yet

From Excel, paper or a legacy system to an application built on Helios Left, where the process lives today: an Excel sheet, a paper form, a legacy system, someone's head. Right, the new application built on Helios, with screens for each role and an approve step. Beneath, the one foundation Flow and the loop run on. An Excel sheet A paper form A legacy system Someone's head Your application, built on Helios Roles Quality lead Shift lead Plant manager one data model Approve One foundation: the same one Flow runs on data model · screens for each role · workflows and approvals · calendars · sign-in

The process that lives in Excel, on paper, in someone's head or in a legacy system becomes an application on Helios. It is built low-code on the foundation Flow runs on, with AI that drafts screens, data and workflows from a codebase that already knows plant applications. You see working screens before the build is finished, and your people decide what goes in.

Migrate with Albatross: the records you already have

A new system starts with years of history: parts, orders, measurements, maintenance records, in the old system and in the spreadsheets. Albatross moves them across in three steps, each with its own agent, each checked and restartable from where it stopped.

Migrate with Albatross: extract, transform, loadThe old system and spreadsheets on the left. The extraction agent reads them, the transformation agent maps the values to the new data model, the load agent writes them into your Helios application or Flow. Each step is checked before and after. Where the data isthe old system,spreadsheets, files Extraction agentreads each sourcewhere it is Transformation agentmaps the values tothe new data model Load agentwrites them in,in parallel Helios or Flowyour newapplication checked before and after every step, restartable from where it stopped, every step logged Migrate with Albatross: extract, transform, loadThe old system and spreadsheets at the top. The extraction agent reads them, the transformation agent maps the values to the new data model, the load agent writes them into your Helios application or Flow. Each step is checked before and after. Where the data isthe old system, spreadsheets, files Extraction agentreads each source where it is Transformation agentmaps the values to the new data model Load agentwrites them in, in parallel Helios or Flowyour new application checked before and after every step, restartable from where it stopped, logged

Which route each system takes

Start from the system, and the route follows: a machine connects through Loom, a system you own is integrated with Mateos, a process with no system is built on Helios, and the data in a system you retire is migrated with Albatross.

One week in a machining plant: the loop at work

Pragmatos

An example week in a plant with forty machines, three shifts and one planned stop on Friday. This is what the loop does with one pump and one compressor. See it in a machining firm that runs three sites.

  1. Shift change.

    The day screen shows three items under Needs me now. The night's two stops already carry their reasons, entered at the machine.

  2. Cooling pump 2.

    Its vibration has risen over the last six shifts and is still inside its limit. Pulse marks the change against the pump's own baseline.

  3. Orbis proposes.

    Change the mechanical seal at Friday's planned stop. It shows two earlier cases on this pump where the same pattern ended in a seal change, and that the seal is in stock.

  4. The maintenance lead approves.

    With a reason, from the phone. Flow creates the work order for Friday, and the shift lead sees it on the board. Integrated with Mateos, the same order shows up in your ERP, so planning and purchasing see it too.

  5. The seal is set aside.

    The seal stock used to live in a spreadsheet at the tool crib. Now it is a small application built on Helios, beside Flow, so the seal Orbis counted on is booked to Friday's order. The old stock list came across with Albatross when the application went in.

  6. Compressor 1.

    It ran for 14 hours over the weekend with no production. The energy manager finds it on the day screen, with the base load beside it, and books a leak walk for Tuesday.

  7. The seal is changed in the planned stop.

    The work takes 50 minutes. The completion comes back through Flow and, through Mateos, closes the order in your ERP. Decisions holds the whole chain: the readings, the proposal, the approval, the work and the result.

What else the week touched: the ERP, integrated with Mateos. The tool-crib application, built on Helios. Its old stock list, migrated with Albatross.

Shift change in a machining hall: workers seen from behind in front of a wall screen of coloured cards, one pointing at a red card, with a lathe, a milling machine and a measuring machine around them
Shift change: the day's cards on the wall screen.

What changes for you, role by role

Pragmatos

Pragmatos has a view for each role in the plant, and each person sees the screens that belong to their work. Open your role to see what changes on Monday.

A cutaway of one factory building with a person in each room: operator, maintenance, quality, energy, production engineering, shift lead, automation, IT, plant manager, owner and a meeting table
One plant, one view per role.

Monday starts on one screen: what stopped, why, and who is already on it. Hall 1 and Hall 2 are counted the same way, so they compare on the same terms.

Every decision in the plant has a name, a role and a reason beside it.

The Excel process, or the legacy system nobody wants to touch, built into an application on Helios: build it on Helios. Its old records come along: migrate with Albatross.

What the plant manager sees

Where Pragmatos comes from

Since 1.0

The first Pragmatos connected equipment and showed it live, with alerts on limits and dashboards for each site. It ran for companies like these:

A landscape of five industrial places along one road: cold storage, water treatment, a cement works, a factory hall and a business campus, joined by lines of light
Five kinds of site, connected by the first Pragmatos.
  • A renowned cold-chain products manufacturerRefrigeration and cold storage
  • A water-technology multinationalWater treatment and pumping
  • A heavy-process equipment makerCement and minerals
  • A renowned industrial automation majorAutomation and controls
  • A commercial campus and technology-park developerBuildings and utilities

What those sites asked for next shaped Pragmatos as it is today: not another screen, but a proposal with its reasons, a person who decides, and a record of both.

Your server, your data, your decision

Trust

Pragmatos runs where you put it and keeps the data where you keep it. Each person sees the views that belong to their role, and a screen outside that role is refused.

Pragmatos card in German: this view does not belong to your role, with a button back to the start page
What it shows: a screen outside the reader's role, refused with a card that leads back to their own start page, in German.
Cross-section of a factory site: machines send lines into a small locked server room, and the whole site sits under a dome of light that ends at the fence
The data comes in from the machines and stays inside the fence.
  • On premise or in your own cloudOn 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.
  • Your data stays with youNothing leaves unless you switch on push messages, a messenger channel or a sign-in from outside. Everything can be exported.
  • Read-only at the machineNo write path to any control. Pragmatos reads, people act.
  • One database per companyBackup, restore and upgrade one company at a time.
  • Fits your IEC 62443 zonesDeploys into your zone-and-conduit design (IEC 62443-3-2) and supports your NIS2 duties, with a software bill of materials for the Cyber Resilience Act.
  • Designed for the EU AI Act's human-oversight and logging requirementsWhether your use meets the Act is for you and your advisers to assess. A person decides each proposal.

Follow the loop

Questions plant managers, IT and works councils ask

A maintenance lead beside a large pump, holding a tablet with one proposal card and an approve button
No. Pragmatos reads. It has no write path to a machine control, so a setpoint, a program or a cycle stays as it is. People act on what it shows.
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. Each company has its own database.
You do. The data stays in your installation unless you switch on push messages, a messenger channel or a sign-in from outside. Everything can be exported. Where we process data on your behalf, a data processing agreement under GDPR Art. 28 covers it.
No. Pragmatos sits beside them. Integrated with Mateos, Fabric sends approved work into SAP, proALPHA, Dynamics 365 Business Central or Odoo and brings the completions back. Where a plant has no MES, Flow carries the shop-floor work: orders, stock, maintenance and quality.
The machines you have, old and new: controls and PLCs over OPC UA, MTConnect, Modbus or MQTT, energy meters, compressors and the utilities, and machines with no network through the signals they already give.
A person. Orbis proposes and shows what the proposal rests on. The person with the right role approves it or turns it down, and both stay on the record.
Its own read-only view: every place a name can appear and who can see it, the role assignments, the reports, and the history of every switch that changes what is recorded about people.
Technically, no: we use the ERP's documented interfaces and change nothing inside it. Whether your ERP contract covers use through a connected system (SAP calls it indirect or digital access) is a licence question; we list the documents the link reads and creates so you can settle it with your ERP partner before go-live.
The mapping is documented and tested against the interface version; after an upgrade we re-test it with you, from the documentation you already hold.
If Fabric has the connector, you configure it from the Platform's screens. If it doesn't, Mateos adds the link: integrate with Mateos. For the process that still lives in Excel, on paper, in someone's head or in a legacy system that does not fit the modern digital highway, it is built as an application on Helios, beside Flow: build it on Helios. The records already in the old system or the spreadsheets come across with Albatross: migrate with Albatross.

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