Pillar 02 · OperationsThe closest screen, the right answer

At 4am, operators don't log into systems. They send a WhatsApp.

When a machine stops, PackGuru tells the operator what to do — step by step, in their language, on the screen they already have in their hand. No long search. No extra office system

Operator at the machine HMI following a live PackGuru procedure
[ the answer, at the machine, in your language ]
01 /The problem

The line stopped 20 minutes ago. The right person finds out tomorrow

The alarm is on the HMI. The HMI is on the far side of the hall. The person who knows the fix is on another shift — and the stop report lands in a spreadsheet nobody opens until Friday

LEAK · SIGNAL

Alerts die on the HMI

The machine announced its problem to a screen no one was standing near. At 100 bottles a minute, every minute of silence is 100 bottles

LEAK · CONTEXT

Diagnosis starts from zero

By the time someone arrives, the jam is a mystery: no clip, no timeline, no history of the last time it happened

LEAK · HANDOVER

Shifts pass problems, not knowledge

What the night shift learned the hard way, the morning shift relearns the hard way. The workaround travels by rumour

02 /What changes

Same processes, measured before and after

PROCESS KPI TODAY WITH PACKGURU
Time to team awareness stop → team knows minutes to hours — whoever walks by seconds — alert with camera clip lands in the team WhatsApp group
Diagnosis at the machine time to root cause guesswork and phone calls 30-second clip from inside the machine + suspected cause + procedure link
Shift handover context carried over verbal, partial, perishable the whole thread — alert, clip, fix, outcome — readable by the next shift
Stop follow-up recurrence of same fault workarounds, repeat visits resolution logged on the alert, pattern flagged when it returns
03 /How it works

Signal to fix, one thread

Machine signal PackML · OPC-UA · Modbus Edge gateway context + camera clip attached WhatsApp alert whole team, seconds later Fix logged next shift reads the thread

Try it: live WhatsApp demo →

04 /On the line

Six things PackGuru does live

Discipline beats heroics. Every line stoppage is an opportunity to capture how it was solved — and serve that answer to whoever sees it next

Changeover wizard

Every format switch becomes a guided, measurable process: instructions, photo checks, automatic timing from machine signals

"Hey PackGuru"

Voice command, text or photo. Contextual answers from your manuals, SOPs and schematics — in the operator's language

Golden recipe

Track every parameter change. Compare current setup vs. best-performing configuration for this exact format

WhatsApp on the line

Operator films the problem. PackGuru answers in seconds with diagnosis and three likely fixes. No manager needed at 4:45 a.m

Closest-screen delivery

HMI · app · WhatsApp · iPad · phone. Same answer goes to whatever the operator is already looking at

Proactive alerts

Parameter drift, format-mismatch warnings, conditions requiring attention — pushed before the line slows down

05 /Why it matters

Cosmetics changeovers, every two hours

In cosmetics, format changes happen every 2–3 hours. A 5-minute drift per changeover, four shifts a day, is one full hour of lost capacity by the end of the week

PackGuru compresses changeover variance and removes the guesswork that caused it

See the changeover wizard on your line

Send us your two most painful format pairs. We'll demo the wizard built for them