Improvess Info LTDA

Leveraging Industrial Performance This is our mission

Improving Industrial Performance

Improvess consists of a multidisciplinary team of experts with extensive experience in understanding, designing, and improving industrial processes. Founded in 2007 by three students from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, Improvess born with a mix of scientific and business DNA. Our customers are world-class industrial companies that use Improvess products and services to leverage their operational performance. Improvess combines convetional and cutting-edge solutions all together to provide cost-effective, scalable, reliable, and powerful solutions.

Our values are:

Skills

Commitment

Communication

Fairness

Results

Loss Reduction

Learn how our customers achieve substantial reduction in loss of parts or consuming input, resulting in a dramatic gain and results.

Process Control

The higher the production volume, the harder to control.

In this text, we show how we help our customers to achieve both line speed and production control, even on hard, complex settings..

Personnel Tracking

Personnel tracking allows a safer operation, improving control and traceability for critical or complex settings.

Check the whitepaper to learn more.

Planning Optimization

Planing under uncertainty is always a tough task. Building optimal plans is way more harder.

In this talk, we show how our generative tools help our customers to build or rework reliable plans.

Pose Estimation

Pose estimation is an incredible tool used in workplaces to monitor employee posture and support safety.

This article shows how it is used and how it can help realtime operations.

HOW OUR PROCESS RUNS

Our Project Process

After years working on challenging projects, we found a recipe that maximizes the chance of success regardless of the customer's scope, maturity, or size.

Let us briefly discuss this recipe and its steps here.

Business Understanding

The first step of our process is to understand how the plant or process works. What are the high-level objectives and business calendar for the target scope?

Starting the project shoulder-to-shoulder with the customer team is how any successful project begins.

Technical Survey

Once our team has a clear idea of scope, business directions, and objectives, our technicians carry out a detailed technical survey of the infrastructural aspects, technical stack, practical limitations, and other specific application-level details.

Some questions guide this step: What are the types and models of equipment? Which protocols? What are the regulations governing the process?

Finally, the team mines the data used to measure the process in its current stage.

Project Planning

A project plan is then worked out to achieve the desired results. The plan is discussed and written by the Improvess and customer teams.

If the project involves people from different departments, a dedicated plan is written for each customer unit.

Finally, a base calendar is defined.

Execution

The execution stage combines activities on site and in the remote Improvess office.

Our technical team works locally in direct communication with the customer's teams to speed up the communication process.

Remotely, our development teams work to build the systems and tools required by the project.

Iterative Process

Our teams use an agile, iterative, sprint-based approach to deal with the challenges of real-world projects.

In general, we use the two- or four-week sprint schema. Each sprint runs a complete cycle of business understanding > technical survey > planning > execution.

At the end of each sprint, the customer and our team discuss the results together.

AI, ML & Machine Vision

Artificial Intelligence has been part of Improvess's DNA since its beginning.

We use the most advanced algorithms of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Machine Vision to develop solutions which are reliable, fast, and cost-effective.

Let us talk about some of our AIML solutions in a nutshell.

Applying Machine Vision on real-time flow control

Collaborative Chat Bots for Realtime Frontline Support

Automated Fault Analysis with Root Cause Inference

Control & Automation

Serving a wide variety of customers, we develop new skills with each project.

With over a decade of experience, we have worked with PLCs from brands such as Allen Bradley/Rockwell, Siemens, Omron, Mitsubishi, Delta, Fanuc, and others.

Our projects prioritize reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, aiming for seamless integration of our solutions with customer assets, whether it is a modern control device, an old PLC, or even an application-specific device.

Working with heterogeneous PLC Networks, a case study.

Integration with proprietary application-specific machinery: how-to-guide.

Sensors, Sensor-fusion, Conventional Sensors, RFID, and other data acquisition alternatives.

Open Source

For years, industry was controlled by a small group of closed-source technologies dominated by four or five companies. However, in recent years, the adoption of open source solutions has taken the scene.

This new ecosystem grew and is now mature enough to be applied consistently in large, medium, and small setups.

Our team has battle-tested, practical knowledge in the open-source stack, enabling rapid development of IoT and Industry 4.0 projects.