Import your infrastructure as it stands.
Bring in the real conditions: walls, access points, columns and site constraints, together with your production requirements and material flow.
At the root of every redevelopment project sits a key question: what does this mean for production? factorymaker answers it. Building purchase, expansion route or no change at all: factorymaker plans your production within each scenario and shows fit, performance and room for growth.
The situation
Production as a blind spot
When a factory reaches its limits, there is usually more than one way forward. Extend, and in which direction? Restructure within the walls? Buy or lease elsewhere? Whichever path is chosen, production lives with it for years, in how it runs today and how far it can grow.
Planning production within each scenario is what puts the decision on solid ground. Yet doing it by hand takes months per option, so most variants never get tested and some redevelopment options remain unexplored.
Solution
With factorymaker, see what redevelopment means for production
Plan site, building and production as one.
Building, site and production scenarios sit in one connected model, so a change in one domain shows its effects in others, and vice versa.
Generate layout options automatically.
For each redevelopment option you define, factorymaker generates production layouts within it. In a matter of hours, you are able to see how production could perform in each scenario.
Evaluate each option on the same KPIs.
Every redevelopment scenario is scored on production measures that matter to you, so extending, restructuring or staying put can be compared like for like rather than argued case by case.
Preserve project data and logic.
Each scenario’s models and decision logic are saved, so redevelopment work can be revisited and built on even as teams and staff change.
Common use cases
Evaluating a site —
check whether production fits in the building and site you already own or are looking to buy or lease, before any commitment is made.
Planning a building adaptation —
you are weighing an extension, an addition or structural alteration. Plan production with each version of these options and see which one serves it best.
Exploring future scenarios —
understand what your site and infrastructure could look like as production changes, so you can plan ahead with confidence.
Data in, insights out
Inputs
Existing building models
Models of redevelopment
scenarios you are weighing
scenarios you are weighing
Site configuration and access
Current / forecast
production line configuration
production line configuration
Outputs
- Your existing building with production replanned inside as the baseline
- Each redevelopment scenario with production planned inside it
- Layout options generated and ranked against set goals
- Each option scored on the same KPIs, visualised in 2D and 3D
- Best-performing layouts shortlisted
- Strengths and trade-offs of each option, explained
What to expect
Planning to offer time
reduced by up to 80% 80%
reduced by up to 80% 80%
Material transport time
reduced by up to 40% 40%
reduced by up to 40% 40%
Reduced area demand
by up to 10% 10%
by up to 10% 10%
Frequently Asked Questions
What is factorymaker?
factorymaker is the intelligence layer for factory planning. It connects site, building, and production planning in one system, so teams can weigh the trade-offs across spatial domains and decide with confidence. For the first time, teams can compare layout options based on performance data, and see the implications of their choices before committing.
Who is factorymaker for?
factorymaker is built for industrial enterprises that reconfigure their production layouts continuously, are planning a new facility or are reconfiguring an existing one. It is used by the teams behind these projects: in-house factory planners, engineers and plant managers who are shaping the facility’s future, and the decision-makers who oversee it.
Does factorymaker work for planned and existing facilities?
Yes, across the full lifecycle of a facility. factorymaker supports greenfield planning of a new site, brownfield reconfiguration of an existing building, and the ongoing adaptation of production layouts inside a facility that is already running.
What do I need to get started?
You can start from scratch, or upload your existing project data, such as site location, building models and production layout information, along with your objectives and requirements, directly into the platform. factorymaker is a web application, so there is nothing to install. You can go from setup to your first set of results in around half an hour.
In what format are the results generated?
factorymaker is built to fit the way you already work. Results can be exported in the common formats your downstream tools use, such as IFC files, standard CAD file formats, Excel and PDF reports, so the work carries through into detailed design and documentation.
How is factorymaker priced?
Pricing reflects the scale of your project and how intensively you use the platform. For a quote matched to your project, please get in touch.
How is factorymaker different from a digital twin, CAD, or simulation software?
factorymaker draws on elements of all three to support decision-making. It builds a connected model of your site, building, and production layout in enough detail to make sound decisions, without the extensive upkeep typically required by full digital replicas. Where a digital twin already exists, it can be imported and used within the platform to explore layout scenarios. A CAD tool draws and documents a chosen layout. factorymaker generates layout options and evaluates them against industry-specific KPIs. Trade-offs between production layout, building and site planning become visible and comparable. Production line and process flow simulation is built in, supporting and sharpening layout planning, and the results can also be exported to common simulation tools outside the platform.
How does team collaboration within the tool work?
Multiple team members can work on the same project at the same time, with access set up for as many people as the project requires.
The platform keeps a full history of each project, recording when changes are made and by whom. Teams can run variant studies and test scenarios, with the reasoning behind each decision kept visible, so nothing is lost as the work develops.
Is my data safe?
factorymaker is designed to meet the data protection requirements of industrial companies. Each company's data is processed separately. Roles and permissions control access to project information.
The platform and its algorithms are developed in-house. Project data is treated as confidential, is not passed on to third parties for our own purposes, and is not transmitted to external generative AI providers. Hosting is in Europe.
Further information is available in the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions. Any additional data protection and security requirements are set out in the applicable contract.