Factory pulse turns a simulated factory day into sound and a chart recorder. Harmonious music means it's running fine; discordant means something's off.
Each coloured thread is one measurement (wider means more, oldest at the top, the white line is now); red dots are alarms. Tap the chart to read a moment. Then break something with the buttons under the chart and listen, or switch to CCTV to watch the floor. Headphones help.
A factory day you can hear
This is a simulated factory. Materials arrive, three assembly lines build products, QA inspects them and trucks carry them away. Instead of reading numbers, you'll learn what a normal day sounds and looks like, and you'll notice when it changes, often before you could say why.
- Listen
- Calm, in-key music means the factory is flowing. When it drifts off key or off the beat, something isn't right.
- Look
- Each coloured thread is one measurement, oldest at the top and growing down to a white line marking now. Wider means more; red dots are alarms.
- Read the harmony
- The score in the top bar sums it up, from 1.00 when everything flows to 0.00 when it's stuck. The line beneath names the likely cause.
- Break things
- Use Cause a disruption on the right, or take manual control of the factory and see if the factory recovers on its own.
Then open CCTV at the bottom left and try the same disruption again, this time watching cartoon cameras of the factory floor.
Which tells you sooner that something's wrong, and what it is: the cameras, or your ears and the chart?
Sound stays off until you turn it on. Headphones help: it pans left to right along the flow.
Flow harmony is a single score for how well the factory is flowing, from 1.00 (everything moving) down to 0.00 (badly stuck).
It falls when lines run short of materials, trucks queue in the yard, QA rejects rise or a line stops. It recovers gradually, so a dip lingers for a few minutes after the cause has passed.
The word gives the band: smooth at 0.75 and above, strained from 0.45, struggling below that. The music follows it: the lower the score, the more off-key and off-beat it sounds.