CONNECT Beacon
See the problem. Signal for help. Keep running.
An andon system exists to do one thing: tell the right people that something on the floor needs attention. In most operations, that still means a light tower on the machine — a color changes, and someone has to be looking at it to notice.
BEACON is the digital andon module for CONNECT. It turns that single light into targeted, routed, timestamped communication — sent to the specific people who can act, displayed across the floor, and captured as data you can analyze afterward.
The result isn’t just faster problem-solving. It’s capacity you were already paying for and weren’t getting.
Your Challenges
1. Alerts reach the people who can fix it.
BEACON triggers real-time notifications to a designated person or team—visual signal, email, SMS, or dashboard message. No walking the floor to find a supervisor. No waiting for someone to look up at a light tower.
2. Raise the flag before the machine stops.
Operators can set alerts proactively while production continues. A roll running low, a skid needed, a part about to require attention—the request goes out, and the response arrives before the downtime does.
3. Configured to your floor, not a template.
Alert types are fully customizable: Require Quality Check, Request Supervisor, Material Needed, or any condition your operation needs to communicate. Operators can attach specific details about the issue at hand, so responders arrive knowing what they’re walking into.
4. Every alert becomes data.
Timestamps, duration, machine, operator, and alert type are captured automatically and flow into CONNECT analytics. You stop guessing at response times and start measuring them.
"Using CONNECT's Andon module has given us better visibility when issues occur on the production floor. The dashboard monitors, email alerts, and SMS texts sent to maintenance and supervisors give immediate real-time notification that help is needed." — Continuous Improvement Supervisor, Large Book Manufacturer "We have improved our roll delivery response time using CONNECT's Andon feature configured to inform about paper requests. This allows operators to stay at their machine watching quality and not tracking down a material handler."
Key Features
Raised from the terminal operators already use
BEACON runs inside the same CONNECT shop floor data collection interface operators use every shift. There’s no second system, no separate device, and no new habit to build. The operator selects the alert, adds detail if needed, and returns to the machine.
Broadcast across the floor and beyond it
Active alerts appear on the CONNECT real-time production dashboard for immediate visibility across the operation, while simultaneously reaching designated responders by email and SMS. Supervisors, maintenance, material handlers, and quality all see the same signal at the same moment.
Measured, not just resolved
Because every alert is logged with full context, patterns surface that were previously invisible. Which issues recur, on which machines, on which shifts. How long each type of request takes to answer. Where the delay is a communication gap rather than a maintenance problem. That’s the difference between resolving incidents and eliminating them.
Turn communication gaps into running hours.
BEACON was built directly from what CONNECT users told us they needed: a way to close the delay between an issue appearing on the floor and the right person knowing about it. Every minute recovered from that gap is capacity you can sell.
Get Started Today. Ready to take your production processes to the next level? Contact us today to learn more about CONNECT Beacon and how it can transform your shop floor connectivity and data integration.
