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    About Factory Data Systems

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    About Factory Data Systems

    Built by people who did it by hand first.

    Factory Data Systems is a manufacturing software company. For more than two decades we have worked where plant-floor automation meets enterprise IT — getting data out of controllers, giving it structure, and putting it in front of the people who have to act on it. Our products exist because the same problems kept coming back.

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    Factory Data Systems, LLC · New York · Event Engine® and IntelliTrack™ are developed, sold, and supported in-house

    Where we come from

    Twenty years of integration projects, one lesson.

    Before there were products, there were projects — PLC to database, recipe download, traceability, label printing, reporting — each one built from scratch for a process that was different from the last.

    Every one of those projects taught the same thing. The hard part was never the network or the protocol. It was getting a value out of a controller with enough structure and enough context that someone could still trust it a year later: which unit, which operation, which recipe revision, which lot, and whether the write actually landed. Do that, and the reports, the enforcement, the genealogy, and now the AI come almost for free. Skip it, and everything downstream is a reconstruction.

    Event Engine® came first, because moving data between controllers and databases was the job every project began with and the one most integration stacks made harder than it needed to be. IntelliTrack™ followed, because once the data was arriving reliably, customers wanted the record it should have been feeding all along. Both were built by the people who had been doing the work manually — which is why they are configured rather than programmed, and why they refuse to assume anything the controller did not confirm.

    The hard part was never the protocol. It was the context.

    What we build to

    Capture at the sourceRead the controller directly, the moment it happens. Anything reconstructed later is an estimate.
    Structure over logsA named attribute tied to a unit and an operation — not a trace, a file, or a spreadsheet to interpret.
    Acknowledge, never assumeThe controller is told whether the record landed. Silence is not success.
    Configure, don't codeEvents, rules, and screens are built in a browser by the people who run the line, not compiled by a contractor.
    Enforce while it's cheapCatch the wrong value at the station, not at final inspection.
    Measure ourselvesThe pipeline that moves your data baselines its own behaviour and warns when it drifts.
    Your servers, your dataWindows, SQL Server or Oracle, on-premises or in your cloud. No vendor cloud in the path, no data leaving your control.
    Say what shipsIf a capability is on the roadmap, we say roadmap. Every number we publish is one we measured.

    What came out of it

    Two products. One record.

    PLC-to-database middleware Event Engine®® Native drivers for Rockwell Logix, Siemens S7, and Modbus TCP/IP, OPC UA for the rest. Whole structures, real-time acknowledgement, and Event Health watching every event. Read about Event Engine® → Manufacturing execution and traceability IntelliTrack™™ A per-unit, per-operation record with recipe, BOM, quality, and shipping enforcement, genealogy as a byproduct, and AI Insights on top. Read about IntelliTrack™ →

    How we engage

    Directly, or through the integrator you already trust.

    We work with plants directly and with the systems integrators and machine builders who serve them. Either way, the first conversation is about your process.

    With plants
    We scope against your controllers, your databases, and the question you cannot answer yet, then implement on your equipment and support it afterward. If our products fit, they get you there in days. If they don't, we say so.
    With integrators
    Partners deploy Event Engine® and IntelliTrack™ on their own projects, under their own branding if they choose, with FDS engineering behind them. A low barrier to entry and a richer feature set than they could build on a project budget.
    With machine builders
    Ship equipment with traceability, recipe control, and database connectivity already in it, instead of leaving integration to whoever installs the machine.
    After go-live
    Perpetual or subscription licensing, an annual maintenance agreement, documentation that explains what every option does to the running system, and an engineer on the phone who has seen your configuration.

    Who's behind it

    Engineering-led, by design.

    Factory Data Systems was founded and is run by an engineer who spent more than a decade inside a major automation vendor working on plant-floor transaction middleware, and the years since on the plant floor putting it to work.

    That background shows up in the products. Configuration follows the way controls engineers already think — structures, not tags. Diagnostics answer the question a maintenance tech actually asks at two in the morning: what was attempted, what came back, and where it stopped. And nothing ships that we would not run in a plant ourselves.

    Rockwell and Siemens controllers, SQL Server and Oracle, .NET on Windows: we build on what plants already run, because the goal is to make your data useful, not to make you switch.

    Start with your process, not ours.

    Tell us about the line, the controllers, and the question nobody can answer yet. We'll tell you how we would solve it — with our products, or without them.

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    Factory Data Systems, LLC · +1 585.237.8178 · info@factorydatasystems.com
    Event Engine® is a registered trademark, and IntelliTrack™ a trademark, of Factory Data Systems, LLC.