Factories slow down one fix at a time, as every change depends on an external integrator. The financial damage is staggering: unplanned downtime now costs leading manufacturers up to $1.4 trillion yearly—11% of revenues—while a single hour out in automotive runs $2.3 million (Siemens 2024).

Flexible, orchestrated automation is the only path forward, but years of custom code, vendor lock-in, and talent gaps hold factories back.​

Industry Stats (Siemens 2024)
Automotive downtime: $2.3 million per hour—up 113% since 2019.​

Fortune 500 industrials: $1.4 trillion lost annually to downtime (11% of all revenues).​

Heavy industry: $59 million annual downtime cost per plant, quadruple since 2019.​

Average large plant: 25 downtime incidents per month (down from 42 in 2019, thanks to Predictive Maintenance).​

Nearly 50% of firms now staff dedicated Predictive Maintenance (PdM) teams, up from a quarter five years ago.​

Full PdM and digital orchestration could save 2.1 million downtime hours, $388 billion in productivity, and $233 billion in annual maintenance costs.​

What Manufacturers Can Do: The Conduit Approach

Break Out of Integrator Dependency:
Conduit delivers advanced automation in weeks—ending the cycle of expensive custom code and slow deployments.​​

Unify Your Systems Seamlessly:
With Conduit's hardware-agnostic platform, factories connect robots, machines, sensors, and PLCs—across brands—without re-integrating for every change. One pane of glass; one source of truth.​​

Enable Operator-Led Innovation:
Conduit's no-code workflow automation lets operators and engineers orchestrate robots and machines themselves, cutting response and recovery times. No longer are teams reliant on outside hourly support just to fix basics.​​

Actionable Monitoring and Analytics:
Conduit's AI Analytics Studio brings live data, machine traceability, and instant performance dashboards—helping you identify downtime causes and eliminate waste, without vendor bottlenecks.​​

Always-On Expertise:
A dedicated Conduit Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) partners with your team—on site, on call—troubleshooting, optimizing, and ensuring autonomous, resilient automation. We deliver outcome-driven service, not just another in-and-out project, and we don't charge typical hourly integrator fees.

Downtime is costing more than revenue—it’s costing manufacturers their innovation edge. The answer isn’t another integrator contract, but a team and technology built to keep you in control.

Conduit was founded so manufacturers can orchestrate automation at their own speed—with the tools, services, and real-time data that make downtime a thing of the past.

The next leap in manufacturing starts with a solution built for your floor, your people, and your growth.