Your operator should never have to guess how much time is left.
TaktPulse counts the cycle down on a screen the whole cell can read, and keeps counting when the cycle runs long. The same box reads your PLC, so the cycle data, the downtime reasons and the live logic are all in one place instead of three.
Four colours, no reading required
The whole panel changes colour, not a small digit in a corner, so it works from across the aisle and at an angle. When the cycle blows past target the count goes negative and stays on screen — the loss is visible instead of parked at zero.
On pace. The operator has room to work.
Time to close out. The window is narrowing.
Late. The cell is about to wait on this load.
Overtime. The counter runs negative and the seconds lost are recorded, not hidden.
Three wired counters, unlimited virtual ones
Three counters come off the M12 connector. Once the unit is on the network you can add as many more as you need, driven straight from PLC tags — no extra wiring and no extra boxes.
It knows what shift it is
Shifts are defined once in the portal. Off-shift triggers are ignored and counters reset at the boundary, so nobody finds phantom cycles in the morning report.
Nothing to log into at the machine
No keyboard, no mouse, no laptop on a cart. Targets, labels and colours are changed from a phone or from the portal, one unit or the whole plant.
A dropped network costs you nothing
Cycles buffer on the unit and flush automatically when the connection comes back. Production data does not depend on your Wi-Fi having a good day.
The part a shot clock can't do
TaktPulse talks to ControlLogix and CompactLogix directly. That turns the timer on the wall into a diagnostic tool your controls people actually want to use.
Live troubleshooting with animated rungs
Ask why the clamp won't retract and TaktPulse pulls that rung out of the program and draws it on screen with live tag values coloured in real time. You watch the logic solve while standing at the machine, on a tablet, without Studio 5000 open.
Live tag reads
Read any tag live, trend it, and attach it to a counter — including machine cycle time straight from the controller, so loading time and true machine time sit side by side.
Program analyzer
Upload an L5X or ACD and the whole program becomes searchable: tags, rungs, routines, UDTs, cross-references, I/O. Find every place a tag is written in seconds.
Version compare
Diff two versions of a program rung by rung and see exactly what changed between the backup and what is running now. The answer to "it worked yesterday."
Downtime reasons you can trust
A satellite station at the cell locks the machine when it goes down and holds it until a reason is captured. The operator taps their badge on the RFID reader — identity, reason and duration are recorded on their own.
Nobody types a code into a terminal, because everybody knows how that ends: the same three codes all shift. Badge-driven data is data you can build a Pareto from.
Bypasses on the record
TaktPulse watches the safety and process bypass tags continuously and writes a permanent history: which bypass, when it went on, when it came off, and how long the machine ran that way.
No more finding a jumper three weeks later. Exportable, per station and per shift, and ready when your auditor asks.
One screen for the whole cell
Stations laid out on a plan view of the floor as it is actually arranged, each coloured by its current state and refreshed every five seconds. Put it on a display in the office or the aisle and a supervisor can see what's holding up the line from across the room, with nobody logged in.
Loading mode, for assembly and weld cells
Measures the operator's loading window and reports on-time rate, average load time, late loads and the trend across the shift.
Part-count mode, for presses
Counts strokes and parts against target per hour and per shift. Same box, same wiring — the difference is a setting in the portal.
Cycle time you can dig into
Last 10, 20, 50 or 100 cycles with the target overlaid, plotted on screen or exported to Excel.
Lunch breaks don't ruin the average
Abnormal gaps and runaway cycles are detected and left out of the averages, so the shift number means something.
Running in about fifteen minutes
One cable does everything: 24 VDC in, ground, and three counter triggers from the PLC or an I/O block. No mains, no panel work, no electrician booked for next Tuesday.
Hang it
A ball-joint bracket ships with every unit. Aim it at the operator.
Plug in one M12 cable
Power and all three counter signals arrive on the same connector.
Join the network
Pick the Wi-Fi from the unit's own touchscreen, or plug it into wired LAN.
Register it
Enter your account email on screen. A setup wizard walks through naming, counters and colour targets.
Forget about it
Targets, shifts, resets, reboots and firmware are all pushed from the portal after that, fleet-wide.
It doesn't open anything into your plant
Most plant-floor software asks IT for a firewall exception, a VPN tunnel or an inbound port. TaktPulse asks for none of them.
Outbound only
The unit starts every connection itself over TLS. No inbound ports, no port forwarding, no tunnel into the cell. If it can reach the internet on 443 it works — including on a segregated VLAN or its own cellular link, isolated from your business network.
Read-only on the controller
TaktPulse reads tags. It does not write them, cannot change logic, force an output or move a setpoint. The worst thing it can do to a PLC is ask it a question.
SOC 2 certified hosting, in Canada
The platform runs on DigitalOcean, which holds SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 Type II certification audited by Schellman & Company, plus CSA STAR Level 1. Your data sits in the Toronto region and stays in Canada. The public SOC 3 report is available for your auditors.
Per-unit keys and scoped access
Every unit carries its own key, revocable on its own from the portal. Your records are scoped to your company, and owner, admin, maintenance and production roles each see a different set of screens.
Your programs stay yours
Uploaded PLC programs are stored outside the web root and served only through authenticated routes — never from a URL somebody could guess.
No agent on your network
Nothing to install on a plant PC, no software on your domain, no service account. The box is the integration.
Start with one cell
Put a single unit on your worst station and it makes its own case inside one shift — the on-time rate, the real loading time, and the cycles you're losing today with no record of them. Tell us about the cell and we'll set up a demo.