Pragmatos Pulse · Analyze

Pulse turns your plant data into answers.

OEE, output, losses and their reasons per shift, line and machine. Trends, anomalies, SPC and energy in one workbench, and a plant you can ask in plain words.

A machining hall with two rows of CNC machining centres, some running and some standing still, a forklift with bar stock in the aisle and a person looking down the line; a card lists where the late shift's time went, with waiting for material the biggest stack
1Line 2 · late shiftidle · waiting for material
2Machining centre 7running

Late shift, line 2: where the time went

  • Waiting for material, the biggest stack
  • Changeovers
  • Small stops
  • Running slower than the target cycle

Each loss with its reasons, machine by machine.

Why was the late shift slow? Pulse answers with the losses and their reasons, per shift, line and machine, from the readings Pragmatos Live already collects.
A compressor room with three compressors, an air receiver and switchgear, and a person in the doorway holding a phone; a card shows Pulse seeing the 15-minute block heading past the limit, Orbis proposing which loads to pause and the plant manager approving
1Main supply meterthis 15-minute block
2Compressor 3running · a load that does not cut

Pulse sees the block heading past your limit

  • Seen while the block is still running
  • Orbis proposes which loads to pause
  • The plant manager approves on the phone

The machines keep cutting. The block closes under the limit.

The peak, seen while the block still runs. Pulse watches each 15-minute block as it fills. Orbis proposes what to pause, and a person approves.
A production engineer beside a lathe holding a tablet with a bar chart and a speech bubble; a card shows a question in plain words and what comes back: the answer in words, the chart behind it and the readings it used
Production engineeringasks in plain words

Asked: which machine lost the most time to small stops this week?

  • The answer in words
  • The chart behind it
  • The readings it used, shown with the answer

Answered inside your own installation.

Ask your plant, in your own words. A language model inside your installation answers from your own data, and shows the chart and the readings behind the answer.

The plant's analytics workbench

Pragmatos Live shows what each connected machine is doing now. Pulse explains it. It turns the readings Loom collects into OEE, output and losses with their reasons, per shift, line and machine, and gives the people who run the plant one place to explore, compare, ask and be alerted. When Pulse finds something worth acting on, Orbis proposes what to do and a person decides.

  1. ConnectLoom: machines read, old and new
  2. SeeLive: one screen for the whole shop
  3. AnalyzePulse: find and explain
  4. DecideOrbis: propose, a person approves
  5. ActFlow: approved decisions become work
  6. ProveDecisions: every decision on the record
4machines side by side in Explorer
15minute blocks watched while they fill
3values for production days left: optimistic, likely, conservative
5shift patterns in the calendar, exceptions included

Output and OEE: where the shift's time went

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Pulse calculates OEE per ISO 22400-2: availability times performance times quality, per shift, line and machine. Every figure states its value, its time window, the shift calendar it counts against and its basis, so two people reading it read the same thing.

When more than 10 % of a shift has no known state, Pulse withholds the figure and says why. A gap stays a gap; it is never filled with a guess.

Illustration: a line of lathes at the start of a morning shift, a shift lead seen from behind walking the line with a clipboard, and a wall screen at the end of the aisle with coloured bars stacked side by side
What it shows: the shift's time in stacks, on the screen at the end of the line, read at hand-over.
Shift reportOutput against target, takt adherence, the top losses and the faults still open at hand-over.
Loss treeDowntime by reason, small stops, speed loss and scrap, from the whole plant down to one machine.
TaktCycle time per part number against its target cycle, so a slow part shows up as itself.
Shift calendarFive shift patterns, with holidays and exceptions honoured, so planned time is counted right.
Stop reasonsThe operator picks the reason on the Andon terminal or the mobile app; the supervisor confirms it.
Downtime in moneyValued at the machine-hour rate (Maschinenstundensatz) from your ERP or a person, stated on the figure.
ExportsCSV and Excel with the same numbers as the screen, for the controller and the customer audit.
Below the lineA drop under a line's threshold raises an action (Maßnahme) in Decisions, with the figure attached.

What changes on Monday. The shift meeting starts from one set of numbers, with the losses already sorted by reason. The talk moves from whether the figure is right to what to do about the biggest stack.

Explorer: any signal, any machine, any range

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Pick a machine and a signal, and a range from the last hour to the last thirty days. Put up to four machines side by side on the same axis. Below the chart, Explorer says in words what the chart shows: where it rose, where it fell, and what was unusual.

Pragmatos screen in German: one machine's state over time, spindle load, power, tool life left and faults, over the last two hours
What it shows: one machine's state, spindle load, power and tool life over two hours, on one screen. Shown in German.

What changes on Monday. The engineer who wants to know why spindle load climbed on Tuesday answers it at the desk, without an export and a spreadsheet.

Trends: where wear and drift are heading

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Pulse shows which machine is drifting from its own normal, and how long until it reaches its limit, with a range around it. Name a level for a signal, and you get a date with a range, not a single promise.

Each asset carries a health index. Production days left come as three values: optimistic, likely and conservative. Pulse never names the day a machine fails. It shows where the trend is going and how wide the range is, and people plan the work.

Illustration: inside a machining centre, a ring tool magazine with one cutter duller than the others, and a small screen beside the machine with a line of dots rising towards a dashed limit
What it shows: a worn cutter and its trend heading for the limit: the job goes into a planned stop.
Pragmatos Pulse menu in German with three entries under the heading industrial analysis workbench: the metric explorer, the trend analysis and anomaly detection
What it shows: the Pulse menu: Explorer, trend analysis and anomaly detection. Shown in German.
Pragmatos screen: tool life remaining over a week for two tools and the tool number in the spindle, with a note that a projection is a planning aid and a person schedules
What it shows: tool life left, trending, with the note that a projection is a planning aid and a person schedules.
Pragmatos list in German of due tool changes, one row per machine with a bar for wear and a running or critical state
What it shows: the next tool changes, machine by machine, with the critical one marked. Shown in German.

What changes on Monday. Maintenance (Instandhaltung) plans the tool change and the bearing job into a planned stop, not into the middle of a rush order.

Anomaly detection: the odd reading, flagged before anyone has to look

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Every machine is compared with its own normal, not with a fixed number someone typed years ago. A reading or a combination of readings that leaves that normal becomes an incident, with a summary in plain words and a trail of who looked at it.

Illustration: an injection-moulding machine with hopper, barrel and clamp unit, and above it a calm line of dots with one sharp bump circled, while a person walks towards the machine with a tablet
What it shows: one reading that behaves unlike the machine's own normal, flagged and circled.
Single signalsA monitor on one signal, such as spindle load or a bearing temperature, against the machine's own normal.
CombinationsMonitors across several signals together, for patterns no single reading shows.
IncidentsEach finding becomes an incident: new, acknowledged, resolved, with who did what and when.
In wordsEach incident carries a short summary in plain words, written by the language model.
Anomaly ScanA scan across the plant on demand: which machines behave unlike themselves this week.

What changes on Monday. Quality and maintenance hear about the drifting temperature in the morning meeting, not from the scrap bin.

Calculated fields: your own figures, from the readings you have

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Most plants keep a few figures of their own in a spreadsheet: energy per part, scrap per batch, air per hour of cutting. In Pulse they become fields, calculated the same way every time and kept up to date.

Your formulaCombine readings into the figure you use: energy per part, scrap per batch, air per hour of cutting.
Preview firstSee the result on real history before you save it.
Scheduled runsFields that need a daily or shift total run on their own schedule.
Used everywhereA saved field works like any reading: in Explorer, in views, in alerts and in exports.

What changes on Monday. The figure the plant manager keeps in a spreadsheet becomes a live one, and nobody has to rebuild it at month end.

Views and dashboards: build it once, share it with everyone who needs it

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A chart you found useful becomes a view: saved with its machines, signals and range, shared with a role or a team, embedded where people already look. The figures are the same wherever the view is opened.

Pragmatos screen: a grid of charts for one machine, machine state, spindle load, parts produced and active power, each with Explore and Anomaly buttons, and a panel on what to check first
What it shows: a saved set of charts for one machine, each a click away from Explorer.
Illustration: a plant office with a large wall screen of rounded dashboard tiles, two people seen from behind looking at it, and a stamping press through the window
What it shows: a saved view on the office screen, the same one the shift lead opens on the floor.
Saved viewsKeep a chart or a set of charts with its machines, signals and range.
SharedShare a view with a role or a team, so everyone opens the same picture.
Ready each morningWidgets refresh before the first meeting of the day.
EmbeddedPut a view on your intranet page or the screen in the hall.
ExportedDownload the numbers behind any widget.

What changes on Monday. The view the shift lead built on Friday is the one the plant manager opens on Monday morning, with the same numbers.

Ask your plant: questions in your own words

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Type a question the way you would ask a colleague, and Pulse answers from your plant's own data. Behind it is a smart language model working with statistical and physical methods, and it learns from every confirmed decision. It answers and explains. It never decides, and it never touches a machine.

Which machine lost the most time to small stops this week?

What changed on line 2 since the last tool change?

Your own wordsType the question the way you would ask a colleague. Suggested questions help you start.
The chart behind itEvery answer comes with the chart it was read from.
The readings it usedThe machines, signals and time range behind the answer are shown with it.
Inside your installationThe language model runs in your installation. You can bring your own model.

The questions stay inside your installation. They are seen by the person who asked and your company admin, deleted after 30 days, and the history can be switched off.

What changes on Monday. A shift lead with a question gets an answer in the shift, without waiting for the one engineer who knows where the data lives.

SPC: is the process stable, and is it capable

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Statistical process control on the measurements you already take, beside the machine data that explains them. A run of points above the centre line is marked as it happens, and the tool change, the material batch or the shift that came with it is one click away.

A capability index on an unstable process says nothing, so Pulse shows “process not stable” instead of a number until the process settles.

Illustration: a measuring room with a coordinate measuring machine probing a part, a caliper and a tray of turned parts, and a wall screen with a row of dots whose last few sit above the middle line
What it shows: a run of points above the centre line, seen in the measuring room before the parts ship.
Control chartsX̄-R, I-MR and attribute charts, per characteristic and per machine.
CapabilityCp, Cpk, Pp and Ppk, shown only when the process is stable enough for them to mean something.
Run rulesStandard SPC run rules mark runs, trends and shifts as they happen.
Gauge studiesMSA and gauge R&R, so you know how much of the spread is the measurement.
Two kinds of limitControl limits from the process, specification limits from the drawing, kept apart.

What changes on Monday. Quality (Qualitätssicherung) sees the drift on the chart before the parts reach your customer's goods-in.

Energy: kWh per line, machine and part, and the 15-minute peak

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Pulse supports your ISO 50001 energy management. It shows where the energy goes, line by line and machine by machine, what the plant draws when nothing runs, and what each part costs in kWh.

It also watches the 15-minute block that sets your demand charge while the block still fills. When the block heads past the limit you set, Orbis proposes which loads that do not cut can pause, and a person approves.

Pragmatos chart in German: load per plant over the current day in kilowatts, three lines for Werk A, Werk B and Werk C with their latest values
What it shows: load per plant over the day, in kilowatts, for three plants. Shown in German.
Measurement planPer DIN EN 17267: which meter covers which line, machine and utility, and what nothing covers.
Meters that countMeters to IEC 61557-12, and MID meters where a figure is billed.
UnattributedWhat no meter claims stays visible as its own row, not spread over the others.
The 15-minute peakBlocks synced to the grid operator's meter clock, the year's highest block, and a limit a person sets.
EnPI and baselineEnergy performance indicators against a baseline per ISO 50006; savings measured per the method of ISO 50015.
Base loadWhat the plant draws with nothing running, as its own line, night and weekend.
Per kg, per partEnergy per kilogram or per part, for the product carbon footprint your customer asks for.
For the auditorkWh first, cost only with a tariff a person entered; retention set by you, CSV export for the audit.

What changes on Monday. The energy manager (Energiebeauftragter) goes into the audit with the export, and the plant manager sees the peak while it can still be avoided.

A morning with Pulse

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A plant with three sites. Werk C is a job shop with twelve CNC machines. This is one morning.

  1. Hand-over, early shiftThe shift report for the night is ready: output against target, takt adherence, the top losses with their confirmed reasons, and the faults still open.
  2. Week review, Werk CThe owner asks what the twelve CNC machines did last week. Pulse shows each machine's hours in four stacks. Waiting for material at one lathe is the biggest.
  3. 07:10, qualitySeven points in a row sit above the centre line for a turned diameter. Pulse marks the run and holds back the capability figure with “process not stable”. Twenty parts are inspected, and the cause traces to a tool change.
  4. Late morning, energyThe running 15-minute block heads past the limit the plant set, with 9 minutes left. Orbis proposes pausing loads that do not cut for 6 minutes: the air conditioning, the parts washer, forklift charging and compressor 3, because the air network sits above its pressure floor. Oil-mist extraction and sealing air stay on, behind interlocks signed by the responsible electrical engineer (VEFK).
  5. A person decidesThe energy manager approves on the phone, and the shift lead switches those loads off. The twelve CNC machines keep cutting, and the block closes under the limit.

Werk C, last week, in four stacks

CuttingThe hours the spindles turned on parts.
SetupChangeovers and first-part checks.
Waiting for materialThe biggest stack, at one lathe.
Stopped, no reason givenEach one goes back to the shift to confirm a reason.

In this example, OEE per machine for the week is spread wide, each figure on Werk C's shift calendar, ISO 22400-2 basis. For a job shop, that spread is where the work starts. The question for Monday is which stack shrinks first, and the answer is material on time at one lathe.

Who it's for

Pulse

Pulse is one workbench with a different first screen for each role. Open the one that is yours.

Pulse finds and explains. Orbis proposes. A person with the right role decides. Pragmatos reads the machines and never writes to a control. Pulse 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.

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Pragmatos on one page, to pass to your colleagues.

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Where your plant stands before the first machine is connected.

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

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Questions plant managers and works councils ask

An alarm from a machine, shown on a phone
Per ISO 22400-2: availability times performance times quality, per shift, line and machine. Every figure states its value, its time window, the shift calendar it counts against and its basis. When too much of a shift has no known state, Pulse withholds the figure and says why, so a gap is never filled with a guess.
From the people at the machine. The operator picks a reason on the Andon terminal or the mobile app, and the supervisor confirms it. Pulse adds up the confirmed reasons into the loss tree.
No. Pulse shows where wear and trends are heading, with a range, and how many production days are left as three values: optimistic, likely and conservative. People plan the work from that.
The person who asked and your company admin. Questions stay inside your installation, are deleted after 30 days, and the history can be switched off. The language model runs inside your installation, and you can bring your own.
Pulse supports your ISO 50001 energy management: a measurement plan per DIN EN 17267, energy performance indicators against a baseline per ISO 50006, savings measured per the method of ISO 50015, and a CSV export for the auditor. Certification stays with your auditor.
A system that can be used to monitor performance falls under co-determination (§87(1) Nr. 6 BetrVG). Shift and crew figures appear only for groups of five or more by default; smaller groups are not shown. Linking figures to a person stays off unless a works agreement switches it on.
No. Pragmatos reads, people act. Pulse finds and explains, Orbis proposes what to do, and a person with the right role decides.