Agents

Agents do real work for Northfield. Each one watches the plant, decides when to act, and asks for approval when stakes are high.

Pre-built agents that fit common manufacturing patterns. Cloud templates run on Facilis infrastructure; edge templates run locally on a Facilis edge agent for sub-50ms latency.

Maintenance

Vibration Monitor

Cloud or edge1,842 installs

Tracks bearing vibration on rotating equipment and predicts failures with ISO 10816 thresholds.

Lubrication Scheduler

Cloud921 installs

Generates lubrication tasks based on runtime hours and manufacturer recommendations.

CMMS Syncer

Cloud1,410 installs

Two-way sync between Facilis work orders and your CMMS (eMaint, Fiix, Maximo).

Spare Parts Watcher

Cloud1,670 installs

Monitors inventory thresholds and drafts purchase orders before stockouts.

MAD Outlier Detector

Edge540 installs

Median absolute deviation outlier check on streaming sensor data. No model training required.

Edge Anomaly ML

Edge484 installs

Pre-trained autoencoder anomaly detection running locally. Detects unknown unknowns without LLM round-trips.

FFT Spectral Monitor

Edge195 installs

Frequency-domain analysis for rotating equipment. Detects bearing harmonics and gear mesh frequencies.

Quality

SPC Monitor (cloud)

Cloud1,230 installs

Statistical process control charts with auto-detection of Western Electric rule violations.

Defect Correlator

Cloud980 installs

Correlates defect spikes with raw materials, parameters, batches, and operators.

Batch Traceability

Cloud1,542 installs

Builds full forward and reverse genealogy for any batch on demand.

SPC Monitor (edge)

Edge712 installs

Western Electric rules executed at the edge with sub-50ms latency. Runs inline on tag streams without round-tripping to cloud.

CUSUM Drift Detector

Edge290 installs

Cumulative sum control chart for slow process drift. Detects subtle shifts SPC misses.

EWMA Smoother

Edge178 installs

Exponentially weighted moving average smoother with configurable alpha. Reduces alarm noise.

Edge Quality Gate

Edge612 installs

Validates incoming sensor data against schema, range, and freshness rules before downstream processing.

Edge CIP Validator

Edge234 installs

Verifies clean-in-place cycles meet temperature/conductivity/time spec with sub-second confirmation.

Production

Shift Handoff Brief

Cloud2,104 installs

Auto-generates shift transition briefs with OEE, downtime, quality, and open items.

Downtime Post-Mortem

Cloud1,788 installs

Investigates every line stop and writes a structured root-cause report.

Changeover Coach

Cloud760 installs

Walks operators through SKU changeovers with checklists and parameter sets.

Prophet Forecaster

Edge411 installs

Time-series forecasting with seasonal decomposition. Trained on-edge with last 90 days of local history.

Tag Downsampler

Edge1,280 installs

Aggregates raw 10Hz tag streams to 1-minute means/min/max before forwarding to central. Cuts WAN traffic 95%.

InfluxDB → Iceberg Export

Edge218 installs

Streams local InfluxDB data into a downstream Iceberg lakehouse. Runs as a sidecar at the edge.

Tag Rate Limiter

Edge142 installs

Drops or aggregates tags exceeding configured rate ceilings to protect downstream systems.

Energy

Energy Baseline

Cloud612 installs

Establishes energy baselines per shift and flags anomalies in real-time.

Compressed Air Leak Detector

Edge540 installs

Overnight pressure decay analysis runs at the edge during idle windows.

Safety

Alarm Rationalizer

Cloud880 installs

Identifies nuisance alarms and recommends deadband or delay tuning.

Permit-to-Work Watcher

Cloud410 installs

Tracks open permits and escalates if a permitted area shows unexpected activity.

Edge Notification Sender

Edge327 installs

Sends Slack/email notifications directly from the edge for time-critical alerts that can't wait on WAN.

Edge Watchdog

Edge401 installs

Monitors local edge agent health, restarts adapters that miss heartbeats, alerts on persistent failures.

Compliance

Audit Trail (21 CFR Part 11)

Cloud720 installs

Auto-generates FDA-compliant audit trail entries from operational events.