Next Plus is a no-code platform for performance support in Manufacturing and maintenance activities, mainly for human beings.

We are addressing the core challenges of our customers like personnel turnover, lack of real-time data from shop floors, long setup and downtimes, human error, quality issues, and much more. As a bit of a rude (in a good way) startup trying to disrupt our field, we believe in extremely simple, straightforward solutions for those challenges. To achieve that, we are building our own software category: HOME - Human Operations Management and Execution, and employing proprietary technology and methodology to construct the HIoT (Human Internet of things).

Why buy?

We started as an Israeli startup, so with this comes the Israeli Hutzpah. Even at the very beginning, when we had pretty much nothing - no product, no customers, and no real resources (except ourselves), we decided to tackle some of the most important challenges of manufacturing. with these addressed challenges in mind, we succeed in bringing value to quite a wide range of customers.

1.      High personnel turnover

Whether it’s (a) mature personnel who has an extensive knowledge , and they move towards pension, leaving the organization with deep knowledge gaps, or (b) New young employees (Y and Z generation, who stay extremally short periods of time working for the organization (2 - 5 years on average).

2.      Low machine & personnel productivity

we don’t really need to explain this one I guess, right? If you’re able to make more with the same resources you can profit more.

3.      Human error and quality issues

These can come at one of three escalating costs

1. You catch the problem before it exits the factory: Costs money to rework it or throw the produce away.
2. Your customer tells you he got a defective product: Costs more money and reputation.
3. Your product hurts your customer or one of your employees due to these issues: Disaster.

4.      Lack of real data and insights

Today's machines (in the modern factories), in most cases, export some real good data that you can build insight on top. In the same factories in manual operations, and we’re talking in some cases on thousands of employees, no data is collected on the employees, and no insight is created. It’s a good opportunity to remind you that in the next 50 years, studies show a predicted increase in the number of employees (I know it’s counterintuitive) and the complexity of their work. you must have this data and insight to be competitive.

5.      High setup & fault downtimes

In today’s operations (and tomorrow's, don’t worry) the line setup and fault troubleshooting and fixing is 99% human-based. To make things worse, these are complex operations, that with each day get more complex thanks to automation. This means that the employee knowledge and process data collection here is key. Every 0.1% we can cut on downtimes (planned or unplanned) can mean extreme amounts of money for our customers.

6.      Abundance of systems and tools

Let’s say you have a small (~80 employee shop floor) factory that builds UAVs. putting things in simple terms, the people on the shop floor need to take screws and put them in metal pieces in a certain order, to get an airplane in the end. For this type of operation, a normal organization uses 15-25 systems. Not a typo here: 15-25 systems! ERP as the main backbone, PLM for engineering, WMS for the warehouse, MS Excel for planning (yearly, monthly, weekly, daily), MS Word for work instructions and route cards, CAD (in most cases at least two types), email for shouting at each other why they are late or not working, paper notes with small engineering changes and signings and the list goes on...