Plants don't underperform because the people running them don't care. They underperform because the systems they're given measure too much and guide too little. Rocket IGS is built on a different premise: the role of software in industrial operations is to keep you on target, not to tell you when you've drifted off it. Here's what that looks like in practice.
01 Orbital guidance
Traditional MES and BI platforms excel at showing you where you've been—and how far you've drifted from plan. By the time the report lands, the shift is already scrambling to recover.
Rocket IGS works like an internal guidance system: continuous course correction while work is still in motion, so crews stay oriented toward the target instead of chasing yesterday's miss.
02 Unified data model
Most plants run production on one stack and maintenance on another. Data gets reconciled in spreadsheets, meetings, and hallway conversations—never in real time.
IGS unifies production and maintenance in one operational model. One truth, one timeline, one place to decide what happens next on the floor.
03 Practitioner built
Most industrial software is built by software people who learned manufacturing from a textbook. Rocket IGS isn't. The platform is built by practitioners who lived the problem — three owners, each with 25+ years on the plant floor before founding the consultancy. Two CMRP of the Year award winners — both owners, not just employees on staff — the only consultancy in the industry with that distinction.
The 7 Big Losses are defined the way practitioners actually use them on the floor, grouped under Availability, Performance, and Quality: Breakdowns (10+ minutes, part replaced), Process Failures (10+ minutes, no part), Setup and Adjustment (past designed changeover standard), Speed Losses (below design rate), Minor Stops (under 10 minutes), In Process Defects (line rejects), and Startup Defects (anything before first good product out).
The assessment question bank, focus areas, and building blocks reflect how reliability work actually gets done in real plants — because they were built doing exactly that, in real plants, for decades. Every default in the system is a battle-tested opinion, not a placeholder.
04 Crew first
Enterprise software often treats operators as data entry clerks and supervisors as report consumers. That's backwards.
IGS puts role-specific guidance in front of the people doing the work—clear priorities, fewer clicks, and context that shows up where the shift happens.
05 Diagnosis to deployment
Assessments that live in slides, action plans in email, and execution in a separate CMMS never close the loop.
Rocket IGS carries you from diagnosis through deployment in one continuous orbit—assess, strategize, execute, and measure without breaking the chain.
It's the same loss-to-EBITDA workflow ReliabilityX has used in consulting engagements for a decade — now built into the platform so you don't need the consultant in the room every time.
06 Enterprise architecture
Point solutions work until you need consistency across sites, roles, and governance.
Multi-site ready architecture, role-based access, and enterprise-grade controls—without forcing you to abandon what already works on the floor.
