Food plants do not usually lose money in one cinematic breakdown. They lose it a gram, a form and a late corrective action at a time. SafetyChain built a business by making those small failures visible while there is still time to fix them.
Factories do not need another grand digital-transformation promise. They need to know why Line 3 stopped at 2:17 p.m. Guidewheel built a business by making that answer fast, legible and useful on machines old enough to collect a pension.
A Princeton-and-Pune software company spent a decade wiring up shop floors. Now it is betting the most useful worker in the plant will be a piece of software you can talk to.
A Singapore startup wants to be the 'Fitbit for machines' - snapping cheap sensors onto any factory line and turning decades-old equipment into a live data feed in days, not months.