Planara Conduit · Manufacturing
Conduit for the maintenance team that keeps the line running.
Production line uptime is the metric. Conduit gives the maintenance technician the answer before the line goes down.
Line 4
Bagger 12
Fault E-204
Line 5
Filler 7
Running
Line 6
Conveyor 3
Running
Line 7
Capper 9
Maintenance
What's the LOTO procedure on the 4-roller?
Specifications
Verify zero-energy state before moving guards. Disconnect main + auxiliary.
Why Manufacturing
Why Manufacturing fits Conduit's model.
What makes this vertical fit the Conduit pattern: the standards stack, the documentation density, and how the service work actually happens.
The standards layer.
Manufacturing has a hard standards stack: OSHA 1910 for lockout-tagout, machine guarding, and electrical safety; ANSI B11 for machine tool safety; NFPA 70E for energized-work boundaries; and the corporate safety SOPs that translate all of that into the language of your plant. Conduit treats those documents as authoritative. Every spec, every warning, every step in a procedure traces back to the page that authorized it.
The documentation density.
Plant maintenance runs on machine manuals from a long tail of OEMs, internal SOPs that diverge from the OEM book, technical service bulletins that update both, and the troubleshooting decision trees that live in the heads of senior techs nearing retirement. Conduit ingests the documentation you have and structures the decision trees you don't yet have written down — before they walk out the door.
The service workflow.
Shift handoff is where knowledge falls on the floor. The senior tech who's the only one who knows how to fix the bagger goes home at 3pm and the second-shift tech inherits the symptom without the diagnosis. Conduit is the layer that captures the first-shift tech's reasoning and hands it to the second-shift tech as a cited, ranked answer — not a sticky note on the panel.
Shift handoff, captured
What used to live on a sticky note now lives in the answer.
Fifteen minutes between shifts. The diagnosis the senior tech can’t hand over in person becomes the answer the second-shift tech opens to.
- 2:50 pmFirst shift
Senior tech finishes diagnosis on Bagger 12.
Fault E-204 was actually a worn auger bearing, not the controls glitch the message implied. Three torque values, two parts, one safety note.
- 2:55 pmCaptured
Submits the correction in two taps.
The plant SOP page says one thing. The tech’s field-confirmed procedure says another. Both go into the queue.
- 3:00 pmValidated
Reliability lead approves.
Reviewed against the fault history, the part change order, and the OEM bulletin. Promoted to active inside the tenant.
- 3:05 pmSecond shift
Next tech asks Conduit. Gets the corrected answer.
Same fault code, same machine. The diagnosis the first-shift tech walked out the door with is now the first answer the second-shift tech sees.
Saved across every future shift on every Bagger 12.
What it looks like
What a Conduit deployment in Manufacturing looks like.
A manufacturing Conduit deployment ingests the OEM equipment manuals, the corporate safety SOPs, and the troubleshooting bulletins. The technician asks in plain language; the answer cites the page. The reliability lead sees what's being asked, what's not being answered well, and where the documentation gap is.
What's the LOTO procedure on the 4-roller?
Specifications
Verify zero-energy state before moving guards. Disconnect main + auxiliary.
Last 7 days
Bagger 12 · 38h since last handoff fault
Lines covered
4 / 6
+2
Shifts handed off
21
+5
TSBs ingested
28
live
First-fix rate
0.78
vs 0.61
Queries by line · 14 days
+12% wk/wk
Early access — by application
We're not shipping a finished product in this vertical yet.
The reference deployment is in marine. We're working with a small number of early pilot customers — companies who want Conduit running on their documentation now and are willing to shape it as we go.
That's a real deployment for you, with real tradeoffs. Here's the trade.
What you get out of it
- A working Conduit deployment built on your actual documentation
- Custom configuration: terminology, standards, and role surfaces tuned to how your techs work
- Locked-in early pricing for the life of the contract
- A direct line to the team building the platform — your feedback shapes the next release
- Named publicly as an early customer when you're ready, kept private until then
What we need from you
- Access to your equipment documentation (PDFs are fine — manuals, bulletins, internal SOPs)
- 3–5 technician interviews so we understand the actual service work
- 30 minutes a week of feedback for the first 8 weeks
- Honesty when something doesn't work
Apply
Apply to deploy Conduit in Manufacturing.
Tell us what plant, what equipment, and what you're losing to downtime or knowledge transfer. Five fields. We read every one. If we think there's a fit, we'll come back to you within a week.