The problem
Why downtime is so expensive in building materials
Continuous processes, high restart costs and a mix of old and new equipment make visibility hard to get — and expensive to go without.
01
Every minute of downtime costs more than it looks like
Kilns, mixers and continuous lines are expensive to stop and restart. By the time a stoppage is noticed, reported and acted on by phone or radio, the real cost has already been locked in.
02
Legacy equipment doesn't talk to modern systems
Plants often run a mix of decades-old PLCs and newer controls, in dusty, harsh environments. Most monitoring platforms assume a modern, uniform install base — building materials plants rarely have one.
03
Maintenance stays reactive without a downtime history
Without a structured record of what stopped, when and why, maintenance planning defaults to firefighting instead of prioritizing the equipment that actually fails most.
How hopit helps
Connects to what's actually running on your floor
Legacy and modern protocol support — hopit Edge connects via OPC UA, Modbus and Siemens S7, so older PLCs and newer controls report into the same dashboard.
Real-time stoppage alerts — a stopped kiln, mixer or line shows up the moment it happens, not after someone calls it in.
Structured downtime-reason history — every stop is logged automatically with a cause, building the maintenance backlog for you instead of relying on memory.
Efficiency per line, kiln or mixer — compare equipment and shifts on the same automatic data instead of estimates.
See what your equipment is really doing.
Try the live demo, or talk to us about connecting your first kiln, mixer or line.