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MES for Powertrain Manufacturing When Every Second Counts.

Automotive powertrain suppliers run on tight tolerances and tighter schedules. We connect your plant-floor equipment directly to Proficy, so your teams see what’s happening in real time — before a slowdown becomes a shutdown.

Powertrain Manufacturing Challenges We Hear Every Day

From Tier 1 powertrain components to body assembly lines — these are the real conversations we have with plant engineers and ops managers.

  • Unplanned Downtime Kills OEE

    You know a machine is down when someone calls — not because your system told you. By then, you’ve already lost the hour.

  • Data in Silos, Decisions in the Dark

    PLCs talk to nobody. Maintenance logs live in spreadsheets. Quality data is three reports behind. No one has a single picture of the floor.

  • Traceability Gaps at Audit Time

    IATF 16949 and customer-specific requirements mean part traceability isn’t optional. Paper-based records are a liability you can’t afford.

  • Scrap & Rework Eroding Margins

    You know your scrap rate. You don’t always know which cell, which shift, or which parameter caused it — until the part is already rejected.

  • Knowledge Walks Out the Door

    Experienced technicians retire and take two decades of machine knowledge with them. Digital work instructions and historian data capture what resumes can’t.

  • Legacy Equipment That Won’t Talk

    You’ve got 20-year-old CNC machines next to brand-new robotics cells. Getting them into one data stream is the job that always gets postponed.

From Manual Tracking
to Real-Time Engine + Transmission Floor Visibility

Transmission Component Supplier Gets Eyes on 47 Machines

The Challenge

A Midwest Tier 1 supplier producing transmission shafts and gear blanks had no real-time visibility into machine utilization across two lines. Downtime reasons were logged manually hours after the fact. IATF audits surfaced traceability gaps quarterly.

What Rain Engineering Did

We connected 47 machines — including legacy CNC turning centers and newer Fanuc robotics cells — to Proficy Plant Applications in six weeks. Custom downtime reason trees were built with operators, not imposed on them. Proficy Historian now captures 1,400 production tags at 1-second resolution.

41% Reduction in unplanned downtime events
6 wk Implementation to go-live
100% Part traceability on audited lines
$280K Estimated annual scrap cost avoidance

Proficy,
Configured
for Your Line

Proficy isn’t one product — it’s a connected suite. We match the right modules to your specific production environment, from single-cell connectivity to full-plant MES rollouts.

Explore All Proficy Capabilities
Proficy Historian

Your Data,
All of It, Always

Capture every tag from every machine, at whatever resolution your process demands. Trend it, query it, and feed it to higher-level systems — without a DCS in the way.

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Proficy Plant Applications

OEE That Actually
Drives Action

Real-time downtime reason capture built with your operators, not around them. Shift reports that take minutes instead of an hour. Pareto charts that point to root cause, not just symptoms.

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Proficy Operations Hub

One Screen
for the Whole Floor

A unified operations view — configurable by role, line, or plant — so your shift supervisor and your VP of Operations both see what they need without calling IT.

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iFIX / CIMPLICITY

SCADA for
Complex Discrete Lines

From transmission assembly to crankshaft machining — we’ve built SCADA applications that handle the mixed-protocol, multi-vendor environments that off-the-shelf templates can’t touch.

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  • How to Choose the Best MES Integration Partner for You

    A MES integration partner is not simply a generic IT vendor but a specialist services firm that designs, connects, and supports your chosen MES platform, such as the Velotic Proficy MES suite, across both the shop floor and enterprise layers.

  • Making MES Fit: From Industry Standards to Plant Floor Practice

    The point of a modern Manufacturing Execution System is always the same: connect equipment, systems, and people so you get measurable gains in throughput, quality, and traceability, but how that actually shows up on the plant floor is radically different in discrete, process, and hybrid industries.

Ready to See Your Floor
In Real Time?

We’ve connected hundreds of machines — legacy CNC, modern robotics, mixed everything — to Proficy. Let us show you what’s possible for your specific line in a 30-minute conversation.