Guidewheel

Guidewheel is a production monitoring platform built around non-invasive sensors that clip onto factory machines and read their electrical signals. The platform tracks downtime and root causes, OEE, production versus plan, cycle times, energy consumption, and machine conditions such as temperature and pressure. It also includes anomaly detection intended to flag issues before breakdowns, plus scoreboards, alerts, reporting, and an operator dashboard for logging downtime and scrap from the factory floor.

The vendor's site states the sensors connect to machines regardless of age, make, or model, and describes installation completed in as little as a day without production disruption. It markets to manufacturers ranging from mid-sized plants to large, multi-site operators, and describes itself as an add-on layer that works without requiring existing infrastructure, connecting to the cloud via ethernet, WiFi, or LTE. This points to a cloud-hosted deployment model, though the site does not describe any on-premise component in detail.

Pricing on the vendor's pricing page starts at 15,000 USD per year, described as covering the first 10 machines, with pricing beyond that tier left unstated. The site says Guidewheel integrates with ERPs such as SAP, Oracle, and Epicor, plus CMMS and BI tools, through native integrations, a connector platform called Workato, and an open API, but it does not detail how these integrations are configured or what functionality each covers. The site does not specify contract terms, minimum commitments, or costs for additional machines or sites beyond the starting tier.