Production
Know what the line made, shift by shift.
Operations intelligence for modern machinery
See the line.
Understand the shift.
Astara is machine visibility and downtime-improvement software for small and mid-sized manufacturers. Connect existing equipment and turn its signals into a clear operational story.
Built for food & packaging Designed in Australia
Live operational view 01 / 05
THIS SHIFT926products counted
One view of what matters
Downtime
See where valuable operating time went.
Alarms
Find the interruptions worth acting on.
The operational gap
Your machines already know where the day went.
But production counts live in one place, alarms in another, and the story of a lost hour often lives only in someone's head.
Astara brings those signals together without asking you to start a large industrial-IoT programme. Begin with one machine, use the data you have, and build from a trustworthy operational record.
Talk to us about your lineFrom evidence to action
See the system move.
Not just the result.
Astara keeps the chain visible from machine signal to operational decision, so your team can see where information comes from and what it means.
Connect existing equipment
Start with the signals your PLC-controlled machines already produce, or begin with a structured import.
Collect at the edge
A read-only site gateway gathers machine state, product code, production totals and alarms, even when the WAN is unavailable.
Improve with evidence
See production, lost time and recurring issues together, then give the next shift a reliable operational record.
The Astara ecosystem
From a PLC signal to a decision-ready shift.
Each layer has a clear job. The Edge observes the equipment, preserves evidence locally, and passes an authenticated record to the workspace where teams can understand what happened.
01Machine / PLCSource signals
Machine state, product code, production totals and alarms.
→02Astara EdgeRead-only collector
One site gateway can maintain an independent OPC UA session for each machine.
→03Local bufferStore and forward
SQLite keeps collected events durable through a temporary network outage.
→04Secure uplinkAuthenticated HTTPS
Batched delivery retries safely until the cloud acknowledges each event.
→05Astara workspaceOperational context
PostgreSQL-backed views turn the evidence into state, downtime and shift insight.
Edge collector appliance
Discuss a site gateway The collector runs on a compact industrial site appliance. It is designed for read-only PLC access, local store-and-forward buffering and simple customer-owned deployment, without tying Astara to a particular hardware brand or model.
See it move
A whole line,
at a glance.
An illustrative live view of how Astara keeps production, state and exceptions together. Healthy equipment stays quiet; attention rises where the evidence says it should.
Example live shiftUpdated just now
Current production926 products
Running time78%
Needs review03 events
A calmer control room
Every machine.
One operating picture.
Move from a site-wide snapshot into a single machine. Compare production, understand lost time and give recurring issues somewhere to go.
- ✓ Production totals with product context
- ✓ Running, stopped, idle, faulted and unknown time
- ✓ Alarms, data quality and communication health
- ✓ A practical path from imports to live feeds
The work behind the numbers
Built around the machinery that keeps things moving.
Bring your operation into view
Food production
Machine evidence
Connected operationsStart with one machine
Make the next shift
easier to understand.
Bring a machine, a spreadsheet or simply a question. We'll show you what a clearer operational story can look like.
Contact Astara