Smart factory results without the smart factory price tag.
I spent two decades building the systems that tell a plant what its machines are actually doing — at enterprise scale, on lines where a stopped machine costs thousands an hour. Jeknetics brings the same systems to mid-size manufacturers, one high-ROI step at a time.
The offer
Smart Factory Readiness Assessment
Most mid-size plants want Industry 4.0 results, but every path looks like a seven-figure platform project. If your plant can't answer “what did downtime cost us last month?” — that's the gap this assessment closes.
The 4-week breakdown
Four weeks on-site to a working result — here's what happens each week.
Discover
On-site plant walkthrough, machine & data audit, and stakeholder interviews — plus a short capabilities roadshow so your team sees what's possible.
Analyze
Maturity scorecard and payback-ranked roadmap, plus the skills matrix and adoption plan — built on your numbers.
Build
One working quick win live on your floor — validated on the spot, and your people trained on it, on every shift.
Land
Leadership readout that opens with your own live data — findings, roadmap, and a first move chosen together.
The goal
Four deliverables you keep
Data & Connectivity Inventory
Every PLC, HMI, test station, and islanded machine mapped — what talks, what doesn't.
Digital Maturity Scorecard
Downtime capture, connectivity, test data, traceability, and operator workflows — scored with evidence.
ROI-Ranked Roadmap
3–5 initiatives with build-vs-buy guidance, cost bands, and payback estimates in your math.
One Working Quick Win
Live software on your data before I leave. You keep it either way — not slideware.
What makes it stick
Three pillars so it's still running in six months
Working software is only half of it. The other half is your people knowing how to run it once I'm gone.
Training Matrix & Skills Plan
Role by role, what your people can do today and what they need to — scored in Week 1, re-scored at the readout, with a 90-day plan.
Adoption Plan
How operators log a stop, how supervisors run the morning meeting off the screen, how your engineer works a root cause — written for your plant, with metrics you check at 30 and 90 days.
Support Model
Named coverage from day one. Sixty-day warranty, then a tier with defined hours, response times, and on-site commitments in writing.
Training is included — not an upsell
Floor training runs once per shift, so operators and supervisors leave able to log a stop and read the screen. On top of that, four to six hours of hands-on champion training for two to four of your people — enough that your engineer can add a machine, change the downtime reasons, and teach the next hire. All of it inside the fixed price.
A deeper training and change-management package, for plants that want to build in-house capability, will be available later as an optional add-on. It is never required to keep what I build running.
Fixed price
Quoted after a fit call — no surprise change orders.
Week 1 walk-away guarantee: if the scope isn't a fit after the on-site discover week, you walk away.
Track record · Enterprise manufacturing
Smart factory experience proven on the plant floor — now built for mid-size manufacturers.
Equipment connected
$35M+
Assembly lines, molding, stamping, and test systems integrated at the machine level for live production data.
Annual savings identified
$5.4M+
Recurring savings and cost avoidance quantified across labor, quality, and downtime.
Projects delivered
60+
From OEE monitoring and traceability to predictive maintenance and robotics.
Technology domains
13
Asset monitoring, SPC, energy, AMRs, digital work instructions, IIoT platforms, and more.
How I'm different
Not another slide deck consultant
Engineer, not analyst
Commissioned machines and test systems for 20+ years. I know the floor because I've stood on it.
Builder, not slideware
You keep working software, built by me — a live dashboard or data pipeline on your machines.
Teacher, not just vendor
Two decades building skilled floor teams. Your people are trained to own it, not left dependent on me.
Independent
No platform resale. No integrator kickbacks. Advice that serves your plant, not a vendor quota.
Proof
Enterprise scale, plant-floor reality
Built on twenty years of enterprise manufacturing systems work — the same production monitoring, asset condition, and plant-floor data infrastructure large manufacturers spend millions on, sized and priced for a plant your size.
Challenge. At a large industrial manufacturer, the plant needed Industry 4.0 outcomes — live machine data, connected test systems, and decisions backed by evidence — without boiling the ocean into a multi-year platform program. Brownfield equipment, islanded stations, and tribal knowledge on the floor were the reality.
What I built. I architected the smart-factory program that brought machine connectivity, test-data pipelines, and operational visibility into production — the kind of work that sits between controls engineering and software, where most consultants stop at the whiteboard.
Outcome. That program became an internationally benchmarked digital factory — world-class connected-manufacturing implementation built to the standard large manufacturers hold themselves to. Mid-size manufacturers deserve a path to the same class of results, one high-ROI step at a time. That path is the assessment.
About
Josh King
Controls and test engineer turned full-stack builder. Has spent 20+ years designing and deploying industrial data systems across manufacturing operations — production monitoring, asset condition monitoring, quality systems, and the industrial networks that carry them. Has taken plants from paper and spreadsheets to live plant-floor visibility, and has run those systems in production, not just installed them. Now based in Raleigh, NC, he runs fixed-price smart factory assessments for mid-size manufacturers — and personally builds the software that stays behind.
info@jeknetics.comBook a 30-minute fit call
A short call to see whether your plant is a fit. No pitch deck. No obligation.
- Leadership access
- A floor contact
- Genuine intent to act
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