Improvess Informática

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

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

We tell their stories, providing valuable insights for new projects.

Process Full Control

The higher the production volume, the harder to control.

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

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 which optimize one or more factors even under unobservable & dynamic environments.

HOW OUR PROCESS RUNS

Our Project Process

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

Let us briefly discuss this reciple and its steps here.

Business Understanding

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

Starting the project shoulder-by-shoulder with the customer team is the way as any successful project begins.

Technical Survey

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

Some questions guide this step: which are the type and model of equipments? Which protocols? What are the regulaments governing the process?

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

Project Planning

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

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

Finally, a base calendar is defined.

Exectution

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

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

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

AI, ML & Machine Vision

Indeed, Artificial Intelligence is part of Improvess DNA since its begininig.

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 realtime flow control

Colaborative Chat Bots for Realtime Frontline Support

Automated Fault Analysis with Root Cause Inference

Control & Automation

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

Working on this path for more than one decade, we gained experience with PLCs from brands such as Allen Bradley/Rockwell, Siemens, Omron, Mitsubishi, Delta, Fanuc, and others.

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

Working with heterogeneos 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 take the scene.

This new ecosystem grows and now is mature enough to be applied consistentely on small, medium, and big setups.

Our teams have battle-tested practical knowledge in the open-source stack, allowing the quick development of IoT and Industry 4.0 projects.