Connect.
Understand.
Improve.

The WORKERBASE Industry4.0 software platform
connects your frontline workers with machines, material and your production system. By using the digital workflows on mobile devices, your frontline employees generate data that can be used to improve your production processes.

Connected Worker solution to drive the digital transformation

How the Connected Worker platform works

The WORKERBASE Connected Worker platform uses mobile and wearable devices to make manual work in Industry 4.0 more efficient. The software connects operators through manufacturing apps and allows to manage and assign tasks in a very flexible way. The manufacturing apps automatically synchronize all workflow data. The data can then be used to understand and improve processes in real-time.

Navigate through the steps below to see how to setup the system, connect your employees, understand the generated data and improve the processes based on real-time data.

Deploy in a short time

The WORKERBASE system runs in the cloud or on premise. The system includes proven manufacturing app templates for Assembly, Machine operation, Maintenance, Quality assurance and Logistics. You can connect your existing IT systems through standard interfaces and adapt the solution to your needs. All manufacturing apps run out-of-the box and can be easily configured to meet your individual requirements.

Coordinate human work with mobile devices

With the WORKERBASE manufacturing apps, you connect your operators with each other and provide real-time workflow capabilities. Your operators use the mobile workflows to get guidance, report production data and trigger immediate problem solving workflows. WORKERBASE assigns tasks based on skills, location or workflow context. The system works on multiple device classes like smartphone, smartwatch, tablets and connects your workers with machines, material and existing production systems like ERP, MES and IIoT.

connected worker for agile manufacturing

Analyze data for continuous improvements

All workflow steps generate data points that are automatically stored as event logs in the WORKERBASE system. You get actionable insights with analytics and reporting functions. With WORKERBASE, you can build your own dashboards or connect to third-party business intelligence tools, e.g. PowerBI, Kibana, Tableau. In addition, you can import the event log into third-party process mining tools or use WORKERBASE real-time workflows to directly turn data insights into actions on the shop-floor.

Optimize based on real-time data

The collected data enables you to optimize your production in real-time. Our system uses AI-driven business rules to steer the production flow depending on the current situation. For example, machine incidents are automatically routed to the most suitable machine operator or replenishment requests are issued just at the right time without any worker intervention.

Real-time workflow management

Coordinate your frontline workers in realtime and enable them to make better decisions

Learn more about how to implement real-time workflow management.

Low-code App Builder to increase productivity with manufacturing apps

Build standard operational procedures and manufacturing apps without programming. Modify our pre-built manufacturing apps to create your custom solution for machine operation, assembly, maintenance, quality control or intralogistics.

Learn more about how to create custom manufacturing apps without programming.

Improve processes with powerful analytics

Realize continuous improvements based on real-time data. Collect data from all manual processes. Aggregate data and create new insights. Use the data to optimize processes in real-time.

Learn more about how to leverage real-time data analytics for continuous improvements.

Orchestrate work based on realtime predictions

When machines, material and frontline workers get connected into one digital ecosystem, it allows to not only make predictions about machine conditions or failures, it also means manual work duration and quality can be predicted.

Learn more about our predictive work capabilities.

Generate the missing data for your process mining projects

A great amount of process mining projects that try to address shopfloor processes has failed because of the lack of critical data – WORKERBASE provides that data. With our Connected Worker Platform you create event logs from all manual work activities that can be used as input for process mining.

Learn more about how to create event logs for process mining in manufacturing.

Connect 3rd party systems easily

Connect to 3rd party systems and databases through standard interfaces. Our Connected Worker platform is built on a scalable serverless microservice architecture. This includes an event-based system for data import and data export. The system follows a functions-as-a-service architecure that allows flexible real-time bidirectional connections for any data format and connections like TCP, SOAP, HTTP, SAP, Oracle, MS SQL, OPC-UA, PLC Controllers and many more.

Learn more about our system integration capabilities.

Platform for the agile factory

All WORKERBASE workflows and manufacturing apps work on a common data backbone. This increases visibility and transparency and allows to improve the production processesby turning data into action.

Connect
workers

Augment Industrial IoT processes with human workflows. Guide workers throgh the process with digital work instructions. Collect real-time data with wearable and mobile devices. Each barcode scan, each touch interaction on the device is a relevant datapoint.

Understand
real-time data

The WORKERBASE Connected Worker platform creates an event log from all generated data and provides analytics functions for powerful IIoT data analytics. From simple overview tables to process mining, you can utilize easy-to-understand reports and data analytics functions for an enhanced understanding of your operations.

Improve
‍production processes

Use your insights and adapt your IIoT workflows. Take the next step in the Industrial IoT and implement continuous improvement based on real-time data with our Industrial IoT application platform for the connected worker.
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Small screen but big impact - mobile devices for the connected worker

The WORKERBASE smartwatch was specifically designed for industrial settings. Its ruggedized form factor includes many functions optimized for the connected worker in the industrial IoT, e.g. an integrated barcode scanner or battery capacity for up to 6.600 instructions or 5.000 barcode scans per charge. The Industrial IoT Smartwatch seamlessly integrates with other mobile devices such as Smartphones or Tablets.

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