For manufacturing and industrial operations
Give your operators 20 minutes back.
Every shift.
Across a 100-person plant, that’s 8,300 production hours recovered every year — without hiring, without overtime, without changing the equipment. And every operator hour, every training, every qualification: tracked automatically, audit-ready on demand.
Where the time goes
Four moments that quietly drain a shift.
Every operator hits these every shift. Each costs minutes. Across a plant, those minutes become hours — gone.
An operator hits a question they can't answer alone — a procedure step, a tolerance, a leave entitlement. They stop work and wait. The foreman is in a meeting. Five minutes here, ten there. By end of shift, an hour is gone, across the team.
The procedure on the wall is from 2022. The one in the binder is newer. The intranet has a third version. The operator stops to verify which applies — sometimes by walking to find someone who knows. Production stops with them.
New hires shadow senior operators for the first weeks — but every time the senior operator stops to explain, both stop producing. The newer the workforce, the bigger the productivity drag. It's hidden in the schedule, but it's real.
The afternoon shift left a paper note that didn't make it to the morning team. A safety bulletin went out on the intranet that nobody read. An operator restarts their day reconstructing what changed — instead of producing.
How big is the savings
Twenty minutes per operator. Compounded across the plant.
Pick a plant size below. We’ll show what that means in production hours and full-time equivalents per year.
Run the math on your plant
Your numbers, in 10 seconds.
Enter your headcount, shift count, working days, and labour cost. We'll show recovered hours, equivalent FTEs, and approximate annual cost equivalence.
For ISO / IATF / AS9100 / EN9100 plants
Stop preparing for audits. Stay ready.
Most plants treat audits as a quarterly fire drill. noSilo turns audit-readiness into a permanent state — without the three-week panic.
An IATF non-conformance pulls you off the approved supplier list. A GMP inspection finding can shut a production line for weeks. An ISO 9001 audit gap loses you a tier-1 contract you spent two years winning. The cost of a single failed audit isn't measured in fines — it's measured in revenue you no longer get to compete for.
How noSilo eliminates the gap
Four mechanisms. One outcome: defensible records, every day.
Live competency matrix
Every employee, every workstation, every required qualification — visible in real time. No reconstructing data the night before the audit. No Excel files three versions out of sync. The auditor asks; you show them the screen.
Automatic qualification tracking
Certificates expire on schedule, not when someone notices. Training auto-assigned to workstation requirements. Notifications fire weeks before any qualification lapses, so renewals happen before the auditor arrives — not because of them.
Complete audit trail
Every accessed document, every acknowledged change, every completed training: timestamped and traceable. When an auditor asks who read the revised SOP from May 2024, you have a list. When they ask who's been certified on the welding robot in the last 36 months, you have a report.
Permanent audit readiness
Most plants prepare for audits in a panic over three weeks. With noSilo, audit packs are a click — because the data is always current, always complete, always defensible. The fire drill stops being a fire drill.
How the platform works
Three pillars that close the loop.
noSilo doesn’t replace your existing systems. It connects the three things every plant struggles with: questions in the moment, knowledge transfer, and shift continuity.
Knowledge base, smart search, sourced answers.
Operators ask the system, not the foreman. SOPs, BHP rules, HR policies, technical documentation, work instructions — searchable in seconds, sourced to the original document, available in the operator's language. The questions that used to stop the line now resolve in 4 seconds at the workstation.
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Operator wait time — questions answered in seconds, not minutes
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Foreman interruption — routine questions handled by the system
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Decision quality — operators get the right answer, not the closest guess
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Audit traceability — every accessed document logged automatically
| Operator | WS-101 | WS-102 | WS-103 | WS-104 | WS-105 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
KN
K. Nowak | 5 | 4 | 3 | — | — |
PW
P. Wójcik | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
AL
A. Lewandowska | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
JM
J. Mazur | — | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
MZ
M. Zieliński | 5 | 5 | — | 3 | 4 |
TK
T. Kowalski | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Workstation instructions, on-the-job training, user-generated content.
New hires onboard themselves at the machine — guided through each step with photos, videos, and safety notes. Senior operators capture their tacit knowledge while they work, instead of repeating themselves to every new hire. The shadowing burden disappears. Two operators producing instead of one teaching while the other learns.
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Senior operator time — stops being a part-time trainer
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Time to productivity — new hires reach output faster
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Knowledge loss — senior expertise captured, not retired
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Training records — completion logged per workstation, audit-ready
Shift handovers, change announcements, structured communication.
Information passes between shifts without paper notes, lost messages, or "didn't see it on the intranet." Every operator starts their shift knowing what changed, what's pending, and what needs attention. The first hour of every shift goes to producing, not reconstructing context.
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Shift start time — operators productive from minute one
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Communication errors — change announcements reach everyone
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Compliance — acknowledgements tracked, not assumed
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Continuity — afternoon-to-morning context preserved
A day in the plant
Six moments. Without noSilo — and with.
Same shift, two realities. The right column is what your team’s day looks like once noSilo is in place.
What’s actually inside
Four modules. One platform.
Deploy what you need now, add what you need later. Each module solves a real problem and earns its keep on its own.
A live, organization-wide map of who can do what. Every employee, every workstation, every required skill — visible in real time. Search across the organization (“who’s certified to operate the welding robot on shift B?”), simulate substitutability (“can we cover line 3 if two people take vacation in week 28?”), spot competency gaps before they become production gaps. Audit-ready as a permanent state.
A central home for everything your team needs to know — SOPs, BHP rules, technical documentation, HR regulations, internal procedures. Searchable in seconds. Permission-aware. Source-linked. Available in the operator's language for plants with mixed-language workforces.
Step-by-step procedures created once, delivered everywhere. New operators onboard themselves at the machine, guided through each step with photos, videos, and safety notes. Senior operators capture their tacit knowledge as they work. When a procedure changes, every workstation is updated at the same time — no more outdated print-outs.
Complete records of every training completed, every qualification earned, every certificate set to expire. Auto-assigned by workstation requirement, with proactive notifications before any qualification lapses. Full history per employee. Built for the auditor as much as for the manager.
Where noSilo fits
Already have an HRIS, LMS, or intranet?
noSilo doesn’t replace those systems — it covers what they were never designed to do. Here’s how it sits next to what you already have.
For your IT & security review
Built for the questions enterprise IT actually asks.
Your data stays yours. Your assistant only knows what your organization knows. Your auditor gets the same source you give your operators.
Closed system
Smart features run only on your organization's documents. No internet access for the assistant. No data leaves your environment for external training.
Source-linked answers
Every answer cites the document it came from. Verifiable, defensible, auditable. Your team can show the source to anyone who asks.
Permission-aware
Every user sees only what their role authorizes. Operators don't access manager-level data. One department's regulations don't surface in another.
On-premise option
For regulated industries (defence, pharma, aerospace), noSilo can be deployed entirely within your own infrastructure.
Customers
Manufacturing companies that recovered the time — and the audit.
Pratt & Whitney Poland — supplier of engines for F35 fighters, the Airbus A320neo, and Gulfstream business jets — runs operations across four locations with ~6,000 employees. To meet aviation and defence regulations, they needed a single way to manage competencies, training and qualifications across thousands of operators. With noSilo, every manager works from the same live competency matrix; inconsistencies in training, authorisations and competency validity are detected automatically — instead of taking up managers’ time. Operators became the main creators of know-how, recording short video guides automatically assigned to the right machine, workstation and product.
“Information collected in noSilo makes preparing for various audits and presenting required data much more efficient. All we need is an application that contains all of the necessary information.”Read the full case study →
From signed contract to operators using it
Two weeks. Three steps. No surprises.
Most enterprise software lands like a project. noSilo lands like a tool: data in, configured, used. Here’s the actual path.
You send your data
Excel competency matrices, training records, SOPs, work instructions, regulations — whatever you have, in whatever format. We import it. No clean-up required on your side before kickoff.
We configure
We map your competency framework, set up your knowledge base, configure permissions per role, and connect to your existing systems if needed. Typically 3–10 working days.
Your team goes live
Short onboarding sessions for managers and operators. Dedicated success manager for the first 90 days. From kickoff to operators using the system: usually under two weeks.
FAQ
The questions every plant manager asks.
See it on your data.
30-minute demo on a real production setup. We show your competency data, your documents, your team — not slides about ours.
Just a working demo on a setup that looks like yours.
