See every idle hour on your floor — before it costs you a shift

The most expensive losses are the ones you never see

A stopped machine rarely announces itself. A line starts twenty minutes late after the break. A changeover that should take ten minutes drags to forty. An operator steps away and the station sits idle until someone notices. None of it shows up in a theft report or a damage claim — it just quietly eats your output, shift after shift.

Foreman makes that loss visible. It watches each machine or line through your existing CCTV and tracks, across the whole day, whether it is running or stopped. When a machine sits idle longer than it should, or a line starts late, you see it — in plain language, with the time and the camera.

• Surface unexpected idle time on machines and lines
• Catch late starts after breaks and shift changes
• Flag slow changeovers and long stoppages
• Turn a full day of floor activity into one clear report

How Foreman knows a machine is idle

Foreman reads run and idle visually, from the camera — not from any sensor wired into your equipment. Our own AI models, trained in-house for factory floors, learn what a working station looks like versus a stopped one: an operator present and active, parts moving, the line in motion. When that activity stops and stays stopped, Foreman marks the machine idle and keeps a running picture of uptime through the day.

Because it is camera-based, there is nothing to retrofit onto old or mixed equipment. If a camera can see the machine, Foreman can monitor it — the same lathe, press, conveyor, packing station or assembly line you already point a camera at.

What you actually get

Every event gets a second, more thorough check before it reaches you, so you are not chasing false alarms. You can ask in plain language for what matters to you — for example, tell me if Line 2 is still down after fifteen minutes — and Foreman watches for exactly that.

At the end of each day you get a report: which machines ran, where the idle time piled up, the late starts and the long stoppages. Over a week the pattern becomes obvious — the one station that always starts slow, the changeover that always overruns — and that is where recovered hours come from.

• Daily production report — run time, idle time and where it happened
• Plain-language rules: describe what you want watched, no setup jargon
• Alerts to Telegram with a photo, plus a voice call when it counts
• 60-second Windows install on a PC beside your recorder — no new hardware

One recovered hour a shift pays for itself

Foreman is software only and starts at Rs2,999 a month. Set against the output of even one machine sitting idle for an hour a day, the maths is not close — a handful of recovered hours across the week more than covers it. The point is not to police your team; it is to give you, the owner, the full value of every shift you are already paying for.

Foreman's idle detection runs on its own AI models, built and trained in-house for real factory floors and measured against the published state of the art. Our benchmark and paper are coming — see /research.