Find the 30% of your factory you can't currently see.
A manufacturing consultant on retainer, without the day rate. Factory Doctor asks the right questions for your equipment, scores you across 11 areas, and hands you a prioritised plan - then keeps working, re-scoring as you act and showing your team exactly how.
One platform, two surveys.
/ the plant, and the peopleScore your site across eleven areas, then act on a prioritised plan - with a living score that moves as you complete the work.
Score how well each function runs, ask everyone over a no-login link, and find who'd add more in a different seat.
Eleven areas. One diagnosis.
/ every one scoredA live dashboard, not a dead PDF.
Every recommendation in your report becomes a trackable action with points attached. Tick one off and the AI re-assesses your site score - so the dashboard always shows where the site stands today, not where it was on survey day.
Your whole team sees the same score, the same plan and the same trend, survey after survey. You get the PDF too - but the report lives here.
✓ AI re-assessment on every completed action
✓ Score trends across surveys, site by site
What actually stops when this fails?
Group your assets into the systems they really form - LTHW, compressed air, process cooling - and record what feeds what. Then ask the question a list of equipment can never answer: if this goes, what goes with it?
And it checks your register against itself. Most sites record redundancy and criticality once and never revisit them. We tell you where those claims and your actual plant disagree - which is usually the first anyone has heard of it.
✓ "Rated non-critical - twelve assets stop without it"
✓ "No alternative supply, built in 1998, nothing monitoring it"
The other 30% is your people.
The same diagnostic lens, turned on your team. A manager scores how well each business function runs; then everyone answers a no-login link - how well they do each job, and how well they think they could. The product finds the mismatch: the people who'd add more in a different seat.
You get a people-fit score that trends over time, the moves that would lift it, and - straight from the floor - exactly what would close each gap: training, equipment, or just the opportunity.
✓ "The floor rates QA a 4; the manager thought an 8"
✓ "Nobody's covering social media - and someone could"
One platform behind both.
/ what every survey plugs intoConsultant insight, software pricing.
/ 14-day free trial, no cardTry everything free for 14 days - no card required. Then keep the plan that fits, from a single site to a whole portfolio. A fraction of a day of consultancy, every month.
Two ways to get your diagnosis.
/ same report, either routeSign up, complete the assessment yourself, and get your tailored report instantly. The fastest route to a structured baseline.
✓ At your own pace
✓ 14-day free trial, no card
A consultant walks your floor and runs the full assessment in person - across the UK & UAE, with a comprehensive report within a week. The complete diagnosis, done for you.
✓ 1–3hr site walk
✓ Report within 7 days
✓ 6 months' free Factory Doctor access
Common questions
An initial discussion of about an hour, a site walk of one to three hours depending on size, and a follow-up. The report is typically delivered within a week.
It's built for manufacturing - discrete, process, assembly and packaging - but many principles apply to warehousing, distribution and other operations too.
Recent energy bills, equipment lists and maintenance records help but aren't essential. Part of the value is identifying what you have and where the gaps are.
Good. The assessment evaluates how effectively existing systems are used, and often finds untapped value in what you've already bought.
They range from zero-cost changes to capital projects. Every recommendation carries a realistic cost, expected benefit and payback so you can prioritise.
An energy audit looks only at energy. Factory Doctor covers eleven areas - maintenance, utilisation, skills, systems and the rest - and, crucially, tells you what to fix first.
No. Each person answers a private link on their phone - no account, no app - which is how you hear from the whole team, not just the keen few.
Results are aggregated by default; individual answers are only visible to a nominated viewer such as HR, suggestions are always un-attributed, and small groups are withheld to protect anonymity.
The thinking behind the platform.
Factory Doctor grew out of The Modern Factory Handbook - the diagnose-before-you-prescribe approach that founder James Brand refined across dozens of sites, from food production to precision engineering.
Hands-on with PLC programming, SCADA, IoT integration and energy monitoring - the practical realities of making technology work on a real factory floor.
Read the handbook →You already know some things could be better.
Now find out what to fix first. Sign up and get your tailored report - instantly.
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