Lodestar
Industrial Operations Platform

Stop losing production to downtime you could have predicted.

Lodestar gives mid-market manufacturers a single view of OEE, downtime, and asset health — with an AI that tells you what to fix and why, grounded entirely in your plant data.

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Used across manufacturing, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, and facilities management

bridge / plant-overview · live
30s refresh
Plant OEE
shift A · today
72%OEE
94%Availability
81%Performance
Downtime today
47m−18% vs avg
Top loss
Changeover22m
Throughput
2,184 u/hon target
Open alerts
32 slow · 1 stopped
Downtime timeline · 06:00 — 18:00
RunSlowStopped
L1 · Filler
L2 · Labeler
L3 · Capper
L4 · Palletizer
CNC-001
Compressor
The problem

Your plant data exists. It's just not working for you.

Reactive maintenance

You find out about failures when a machine stops, not before. By then the damage is done.

Disconnected data

Your historian, SCADA, CMMS, and spreadsheets don't talk to each other. Nobody has the full picture.

Black-box tools

Enterprise platforms like Palantir cost millions, take 18 months to implement, and nobody can explain why they flagged something.

“The average manufacturer loses 15–20% of production capacity to unplanned downtime. Most of it is preventable.”
What Lodestar does

Everything from raw sensor data to actionable recommendations — in one platform.

Live OEE Dashboard

Bridge

Real-time machine status, OEE gauges, and a Gantt-style downtime timeline across your entire plant. Shift A vs Shift B comparison built in. Refreshes every 30 seconds.

Pilot Watch

Autonomous brief

No question needed. Pilot scans the entire fleet every shift and produces a structured brief: overall status, active issues with evidence, and recommended actions. “Ask Pilot” buttons take operators straight into targeted follow-up questions.

Anomaly Detection

Sonar

Machine learning on every sensor stream. IsolationForest models train continuously on your data and flag deviations before they become failures. Every anomaly is traceable to a specific tag and timestamp.

Alert Rules

Beacon

Configurable threshold and anomaly rules in a plain YAML file. When a seal temperature exceeds 80°C or a filling rate drops 20%, the right people are notified — via Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, or email. Alerts auto-resolve when the condition clears.

AI Plant Assistant

Pilot

Ask plain-language questions about your plant. “Which machine has had the most downtime this week?” or “What is CNC-001's spindle load trend?” — answered in seconds, with every number cited back to source data. No hallucinated metrics.

AI Assessment

Fathom

On demand, the platform analyses OEE, downtime patterns, anomalies, and alert history across all assets. It produces a structured report: health score, findings with evidence, prioritised recommendations with urgency, and risks if left unaddressed.

How it works

Live in hours, not months.

Step 01

Connect

Upload a historian CSV export or connect via OPC-UA, MQTT (Sparkplug B), or Modbus TCP. Tag names map to your asset hierarchy automatically.

Step 02

Configure

Edit a single YAML file to define your site, assets, shift schedule, OEE targets, and alert rules. No code. No consultants.

Step 03

Run

docker compose up. Everything starts: data ingestion, OEE computation, anomaly detection, alerting. The Bridge dashboard is live within minutes.

Step 04

Improve

Pilot answers your operators' questions. Fathom generates weekly AI assessments. Beacon fires before failures happen. OEE trend charts show whether improvements are sticking.

Typical time to first insight: under 4 hours.

Typical time to first prevented failure: under 30 days.

Where it works

Built for any operation where downtime has a cost.

The platform adapts to your industry through configuration, not customisation.

Live demo
Manufacturing

Coventry Plant

CNC · Press · Conveyor

Tool wear · OEE

Live demo
Food & Beverage

Nottingham Dairy

Filler · Pasteuriser

Food safety alerts

Live demo
Airport Operations

Manchester T2

BHS · Queues

SLA tracking

More sectors supported

Manufacturing & Process

Discrete manufacturing (automotive, aerospace, electronics)Food & beverage (bottling, dairy, brewing, bakery)Pharmaceutical & medical devicesPackaging (carton, flexible film, labels)Chemical & petrochemicalPrinting & convertingTextiles & composites

Energy & Utilities

Power generation (gas, renewable)Water & wastewater treatmentRefrigeration & cold chainMining & minerals processing

Buildings & Infrastructure

Facilities management (HVAC, lifts, generators)Data centresPort terminals & logistics

Each industry vertical ships with a pre-configured demo profile — switch from a manufacturing plant to a dairy bottling line with one environment variable change.

Where we sit

The honest middle ground.

Basic monitoringLodestarEnterprise platforms
Price£2K–£5K/machine/year£18K–£85K/site/year£150K–£5M+/year
Time to valueDays (limited insight)Hours6–18 months
AI / NL queryPilot + FathomSometimes
Autonomous shift briefPilot Watch
Explainable answersEvery number citedBlack box
Alert ack + audit trailOperator Ack + LogbookSometimes
Open data / no lock-inJSON-LD / RDF export
Mid-market fit
Pricing

Straightforward pricing. No per-seat taxes. No surprise add-ons.

All plans are per-site, billed annually. Implementation support available at onboarding.

Starter
£18,000

Per site / year. For smaller operations getting started with OEE visibility.

  • 1 site, up to 10 assets
  • Bridge live dashboard
  • Beacon alert rules (webhook + email)
  • Alert acknowledgment + audit trail
  • CSV historian import
  • Downtime detection & classification
  • Anomaly detection
  • JWT auth (named users, roles)
  • Email support
Get started
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Professional
£42,000

Per site / year. For operations that want AI-driven insight and live plant connections.

  • Everything in Starter, plus:
  • Pilot — NL query agent
  • Pilot Watch — autonomous shift brief
  • Fathom — AI plant assessment
  • OPC-UA live connector
  • Logbook full audit trail
  • Shift comparison analytics
  • OEE trend charts (24h / 7d / 30d)
  • Priority support + quarterly review
Start with Professional
Enterprise
from £85,000

Per year. For multi-site operations, consulting firms, and PE roll-ups.

  • Everything in Professional, plus:
  • Multiple sites, unlimited assets
  • Multi-tenant (manage client sites)
  • SSO / SAML authentication
  • Custom data connectors
  • White-label option
  • SLA with uptime guarantee
  • Dedicated customer success manager
Talk to us

Implementation

Onboarding support from £5K. We help map your historian tags, configure the first alert ruleset, and run a Fathom assessment on day one.

Custom connectors

Need a direct feed from OSIsoft PI, Ignition, or your MES? We build the connector. From £10K.

Design partners

First three customers get Professional at £10K for 12 months in exchange for co-development input and a published case study.

The Lodestar story

Built because Palantir costs £5 million and a spreadsheet doesn't cut it.

Mid-market manufacturers have been underserved for a decade. Enterprise platforms are priced for multinationals and take 18 months to show value. Point tools give you a dashboard but no intelligence. Lodestar is the platform that should have existed years ago — open, fast to deploy, and honest about what it knows.

Ready to see your plant's real OEE?

We'll connect to your historian data and have you looking at live insights the same day.

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No commitment. No 6-month sales process.
Typical first call to live dashboard: under one week.