Connect shop-floor data to business systems and AI
Bivrost Gateway collects and standardizes equipment data. Bivrost Cloud brings monitoring, analytics and management together. Open interfaces connect this data to business systems, custom agents and AI assistants that support MCP.
The shop floor is not short of data.
The data still moves by hand
Most plants already run an ERP or production system. The CNC control holds status, counts, alarms and load; the PLC holds IO and process points. What is missing is not data but an automatic path from where it is produced to where it is used: that stretch is still covered by people walking, copying, typing and summarizing.
Lost timeliness
Manual reporting creates a delay between an incident and management awareness. Downtime causes may only become clear after the opportunity to intervene has passed.
Inconsistent definitions
Different shifts and reports calculate the same metric differently. OEE, utilization and downtime become difficult to compare or use consistently in performance reviews.
No traceability
Records lack links to the equipment, time, program and personnel involved. Reconstructing an incident requires searching scattered records and asking staff, often leaving gaps.
Connect, manage and integrate
with one machine data platform
The gateway handles device protocols and data differences; Bivrost Cloud provides centralized management and analytics. Gateway interfaces are available locally and remotely through the cloud for business systems, dashboards and AI applications.
Bivrost Gateway
Connects CNC machines, laser cutters, robots, PLCs and legacy machines with no native interface at the edge; cleans, converts and maps alarms into consistent data points.
- 4
- machine types
- 255
- devices per gateway, max
- 100 ms
- sampling, wired
Bivrost Cloud connects gateways across sites for remote access to equipment data.
Gateway product pageBivrost Cloud
Machine monitoring, OEE and output analytics, five asset-management modules, program transfer. Public cloud, private cloud and on-premises run the same code.
- 5
- asset-management modules
- 3
- deployment options
- MCP
- access to a selected gateway
Public cloud, private cloud and on-premises deployment, with Factory AI included.
Cloud product pageOpen interfaces
Integrate through HTTP, MQTT, MODBUS, direct database writes or MCP. Supported operations vary by channel; MCP currently provides read-only access.
- 168
- HTTP endpoints
- 33
- MCP read-only tools
- 4
- databases, direct write
Per-user keys plus an authorized-API list: access control at endpoint level.
Developers & integration For factory digitalization,
and for developer integration
Manufacturers connect a shop floor at a time; software vendors ship their own products with the gateway as the device layer. Both use the same interfaces and the same data definitions.
Digitalization and equipment leads
Gateway plus Bivrost Cloud, delivered together: machine state, alarms, OEE and output flow into the platform automatically, and the repair–inspection–maintenance loop runs inside it. Factory AI ships with Bivrost Cloud; when you later add your own dashboards or another AI tool, they use the same interfaces — no second round of data collection.
- Connection options for CNC machines, laser cutters, robots, PLCs and legacy equipment
- Public cloud, private cloud and on-premises run the same code
- Define the data definitions once; shifts, reports and AI all read the same one
Weekly reporting and import/export hours: reference 4–8 hours per person per week, 50 weeks a year
Review fault records and estimate potential savings as hourly downtime cost × expected hours recovered
Equipment history and repair records remain accessible when personnel change
MES, industrial apps, system integrators
Your product should not need a new driver for every machine brand in every plant. The gateway standardizes data from CNC machines, laser cutters, robots and PLCs so applications can use consistent interfaces and data definitions. At a new site, configure gateways for the equipment and reuse existing integration logic.
- Five northbound channels on gateway and cloud alike: HTTP, MQTT, MODBUS, direct database write, MCP
- Up to 255 machines per gateway on one LAN
- Per-user keys plus an authorized-API list: grant your app exactly the endpoints it needs
- 168
- HTTP endpoints
- 33
- MCP read-only tools
- 4
- databases, direct write
- 100 ms
- sampling, wired
Equipment builders: the gateway can be pre-installed into a machine or a line and shipped with it.
Applications already running on this platform
Bivrost applications, partner platforms and software products use gateway interfaces for functions ranging from equipment data queries to CNC program management.
Factory AI
Bivrost’s own AI application, built on the same platform and shipped with Bivrost Cloud. Natural-language queries and automated reports cover machine state, alarms, OEE and output. Other applications can access equipment data through the same open interfaces.
DNC Pro
Versioning, approval and six-stage controlled deployment of NC programs, with drift detection. Program I/O goes through the gateway; the control logic lives in DNC Pro.
Product pageHexagon
Hexagon uses Bivrost gateways to connect machine tools from multiple brands and access equipment data through standardized interfaces, reducing per-brand protocol integration work.
Integration caseMES and industrial apps
MES vendors, industrial-app teams and system integrators ship their own products with the gateway as the device layer — integrate once, reuse across plants. Their customers see their brand.
Developers pageServing manufacturing across industries
Bivrost supports equipment connectivity and data management across automotive manufacturing, precision medical devices, construction machinery and university laboratories.
Hexagon
Machine tool brands are many and their protocols all differ. Adapting to each system in-house would have cost Hexagon heavily in money and delivery time. Bivrost pushed multi-brand machine communication down into a single gateway, reducing protocol integration work for Hexagon’s data platform.
- Reduced per-brand protocol integration work
- Digitalization projects shipped faster
- A long-term digitalization partnership
First Fluid Power
Management follows production from automatic roll-ups; line leads watch alarms and utilization rankings on the dashboard; cloud program management replaced the USB-stick routine.
Kanghui Medical
The shop runs many machine types, much of it old. A standardized Bivrost gateway collects across all of them and feeds the enterprise systems, making downtime and maintenance cost visible.
Jiehe Motor
A customized rollout of the Bivrost Cloud equipment management modules: scan-to-report repairs, low-stock alerts on spares, three-tier maintenance checklists — all on one data foundation. Production, maintenance and quality teams work together in one place, with around 1,000 repair work orders a month (Shenzhen site, 60 machines; excludes inspection exceptions).
Automotive OEM
Equipment is spread across domestic and overseas bases, with many brands and different protocols. Bivrost gateways standardize equipment connectivity, and a low-code PaaS lets management build cross-site dashboards without writing code.
Compressor parts maker
Running tools too long caused quality issues, changing them early wasted consumables, and fault response was manual. The Bivrost TMS module drives tool-change decisions from live machine data — quality, cost and response time improved together.
Bring equipment data
into everyday decisions
Book a 30-minute demonstration of equipment data integration with the platform, business systems and AI tools. Share equipment models and requirements so the demonstration can focus on the intended application.
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