AI floor supervision for engineering and metal shops

More output per shift, less loss per accident

In a fabrication or auto-components shop, your money is made on the floor: when the CNC is cutting, the press is running, the welding bay is occupied. Idle minutes, late shift starts, long changeovers between jobs are silent leaks no monthly report ever shows you.

Foreman turns the cameras you already have into a supervisor that never blinks. It watches whether your lines are running or stopped, whether your team is in PPE on a floor of sparks and moving steel, and whether anyone is on site when no one should be. One prevented accident, or one machine pulled back to full utilisation, can pay for years of Foreman.

• Recover idle minutes across every machine and line
• Catch unsafe behaviour before it becomes an injury and a claim
• Know your real headcount and start times, shift after shift

See every idle machine and late start

Foreman reads your floor visually. It tells when a machine or line is running versus stopped, flags late starts at the beginning of a shift, and surfaces changeovers that drag on far longer than they should.

Instead of guessing why a target was missed, you get the picture: which station went quiet, when, and for how long. Over a week those minutes add up to real capacity you can reclaim, without standing on the floor with a stopwatch.

• Running-versus-stopped status, inferred visually from your cameras
• Late-start and long-changeover flags on the machines that matter
• A daily report that shows where the shift actually went

PPE and helmet compliance on a floor that bites

Grinding, welding, pressing, overhead loads: an engineering or metal floor punishes a missing helmet or a skipped safety step. Foreman watches for PPE and helmet compliance and alerts you when someone is working without it, so a near-miss does not become a hospital visit and a stalled line.

You set the rule in plain language, for example helmets required in the press bay, and Foreman enforces it on the camera that already covers that area.

• Helmet and PPE checks in the zones you care about
• Plain-language rules you set in seconds, no configuration screens
• Photo proof with every alert, so action is never a guessing game

After-hours intrusion and restricted zones

A metal shop is full of value after the last shift clocks out: tooling, raw stock, finished components, the machines themselves. Foreman detects people and vehicles entering when the floor should be empty, and it guards restricted zones during working hours too, like a hazardous press area or a finished-goods store.

Alerts reach you in seconds by Telegram with a photo, and by voice call, so a break-in or an unauthorised entry is something you hear about while it is happening, not when you arrive the next morning.

• After-hours intrusion detection on people and vehicles
• Restricted-zone alerts during the working day
• Telegram photo proof plus a voice call, within seconds

Headcount and attendance you can trust

Knowing how many people are actually on the floor, by shift and by area, tells you whether you are paying for a full crew and getting one. Foreman counts people and tracks attendance from the same cameras, so the number on the floor matches the number on the muster.

Combine headcount with time and zone logic and you can answer questions that used to need a supervisor walking the floor: was the night shift fully manned, did the second line start on time, was the restricted bay ever entered by someone who should not be there.

• People-counting and attendance from existing cameras
• Per-zone and per-shift headcount, not a single gate number
• Time and zone rules layered on top, in plain language

How Foreman works on your shop

Foreman is software only. It installs as a 60-second Windows program on a machine inside your premises and connects to your existing DVR or NVR: Hikvision, CP Plus, Dahua, or any RTSP or ONVIF camera. No new hardware, no rewiring, no rip-and-replace.

Detection runs on-site, where your cameras are. When Foreman spots something, that event gets a second, more thorough check before you are ever alerted, which is what keeps false alarms low on a busy, cluttered floor. Then it reaches you on Telegram with photo proof and a voice call, and a plain daily report lands every morning.

• 60-second Windows install, works on the cameras you have
• Detection runs on-site; every event is double-checked before alerting
• Alerts by Telegram with photo proof and voice call, plus a daily report

Built on our own AI models

Foreman runs its own AI models, trained in-house specifically for factory and shop floors, not generic off-the-shelf detection. We hold ourselves to the published state of the art and measure against it.

Our benchmark and paper are on the way. You can follow that work on our research page.