One solution to digitalise, connect and run your industrial site

PILOT is modular industrial software for production and logistics sites. It covers truck flows, site access, weighing, production tracking, laboratory quality control, downtime analysis, reporting and integration with your business systems. Each function runs independently, on a single site data model.

None of them is mandatory. One site may only run truck flows and weighing, another only production tracking and its laboratory.

The software is designed, developed and commissioned by IBITEK, a software vendor and systems integrator since 2007.

An industrial site generates data constantly: vehicle movements, weighings, loaded quantities, throughput rates, downtime, test results. In most cases that data stays in silos. The gatehouse keeps its logbook, production keeps its shift log, the laboratory keeps its binder, and the ERP only ever sees a late, partial re-keying of it all.

Industrial software captures that data at source, makes it consistent through a shared data model, then puts it back where decisions are actually made: at the gate, at the weighbridge, in the control room, in the laboratory or on the plant manager’s desk.

What it covers depends entirely on the site. A distribution terminal needs to get its vehicle flows and weighing transactions under control. A production unit wants to understand its downtime and trust its performance figures. A site under quality control wants every test result tied to the batch it came from. That is the point of modular software: scope follows need, not the other way round.

The software connects to what you already have rather than replacing it. PLCs, weighbridges, barriers, display boards, SCADA systems and laboratory instruments stay in service, including when they come from different manufacturers. Getting mismatched hardware to talk to each other is what IBITEK has always done.

Data capture relies on declared sources and scheduled tasks, which makes it regular and auditable rather than dependent on someone filling in a sheet at the end of a shift. This is the prerequisite for any advanced analytics project: no predictive model makes up for data that is missing or entered by hand every other time.

The software is browser-based, with no client to install: a browser is enough, on an office workstation, a touchscreen kiosk, a ruggedised panel PC on the shop floor or a mobile device. Deployed versions are managed and tracked.

Rollout is incremental. A site switches on the function that is hurting today, then adds others without rebuilding the interfaces. Reports and dashboards are then built in-house using the embedded designers, with no change request.