Nobody can see the plant without walking it or asking someone.
Vantage is one role-based command center over the whole platform, expected early 2027. What you can do now is build the record it reads: labor, machines and quality captured as the work happens. The picture is only as good as the data underneath it.
What changes
What we hear from plant leaders
Six versions of the same problem, in almost every plant we walk into. Here is what each one looks like with Vantage. The goal underneath all six: one live picture of the floor that answers the question before anyone asks.
The walk before the meeting
Every status meeting starts with someone walking the floor to find out what is really running.
The floor reports itself
Clock-ins, quantities and scrap post to the job as they happen, and machines report run, idle and down on their own. Available now.
Answers come by phone
A customer asks where an order is. Someone calls the floor, and the answer comes back an hour later.
Job status matches the floor
Because the floor records at the operation, the SyteLine job is current when somebody looks. Available now.
Five systems, one question
Labor, machines, quality and cost live in different places. One question means opening all of them.
One platform, one record
Labor, documents and job cost already work on your SyteLine data, and machines report themselves on any asset. Vantage brings them into one view, expected early 2027.
Meetings argue the numbers
Two departments bring two reports. Half the meeting goes to deciding which number is right.
One definition behind each measure
Fact-Trak's shared definitions settle what a number means before the meeting starts. Part of the Pro tier, available now.
Trouble shows up late
A machine stops mid-morning. The late job shows up in tomorrow's report, after the ship date is at risk.
The stop is visible when it happens
Machine-Trak alerts on the condition as it occurs. The live shop view that lights trouble areas for every role is expected early 2027.
Which order do I bump?
A hot order lands, and nobody can say which job ships late if it goes first.
Job 360, when it arrives
Margin, schedule, exceptions and scrap for one job in a single view, with a health check on each. Expected early 2027.
“Will this order ship on time, and if not, which one do I bump?”
The question every planner asks. It is the question Vantage is being built to answer in one view.“Is the machine shop carrying its own weight?”
The question every plant manager asks. Machine-Trak answers it today, and Vantage will put the answer beside labor, quality and delivery.What your team gets, role by role
Plant manager
Job 360 on the late job: schedule, margin and open holds in one view, before the meeting. Expected early 2027.
Shift supervisor
Attainment and trouble areas live, with a call for help landing on the right person's screen. Expected early 2027.
Operator
Reports quantities and scrap at the terminal, and sees the priority job on the floor TV. Available now with Shop-Trak.
Maintenance tech
Sees each machine's state live and drills into why it stopped. Available now with Machine-Trak.
Vantage
Your Command Center.
Vantage is one window per role over the whole platform, expected early 2027. It is built on the Smartboard framework already running with Machine-Trak, and it follows you through SyteLine to bring the right view to the form you are on. It reads the record the rest of the platform captures, which is why the products below are worth switching on first.
Job 360
- Click a job: margin, schedule, exceptions and scrap in one view
- A health check: on track, at risk or late
- Other open jobs for the same item, side by side
Live shop view
- Schedule attainment ticking through the day
- Trouble areas lit as they happen
- Machine states from Machine-Trak at a glance
Role-based command centers
- Supervisor, planner and plant manager each see their floor
- A call for help lands on the right person's screen
- Quality KPIs for every role; detail with a Quality-Trak seat
Context-aware analytics One window per role Expected early 2027
Vantage is expected early 2027 and is included in every tier. Scope and timing are confirmed by your account team. Everything on this page marked expected is not yet released.
A dashboard is only as good as its data.
Only the platform captures the data itself. Buy a dashboard tool and you get a view of whatever was already recorded, as of the last extract. The platform records the floor as it happens, which is why the picture Vantage will show is worth building now.
| A standalone dashboard tool | The Lake MES Platform, starting with Vantage | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data comes from | Extracts from each system | Captured on the floor as the work happens |
| How current it is | As of the last extract | As the floor reports it |
| Labor data | An integration you build | Shop-Trak, at the operation |
| Machine data | Another feed, if you add one | Machine-Trak, on any asset |
| Quality on the job | Out of scope | Quality-Trak, inside SyteLine |
| Who sees it | Whoever learns the tool | One window per role |
| SyteLine upgrades | Retest every feed every time | Each SyteLine release is tested by Lake, then the platform release follows |
| Contracts | One more contract and renewal | One subscription, one renewal |
You are buying one-off solutions and becoming a systems integrator yourself to create what we give you off the shelf.
Vantage on the Lake MES Platform
Every product feeds the picture. Vantage shows it to each role. Shop-Trak, Doc-Trak and Fact-Trak already work on your SyteLine data today. The next direct product-to-product integration, Shop-Trak and Machine-Trak, is expected by the end of 2026, with more through 2027.
Shop-Trak
Available NowClock-ins, quantities and scrap land on the job as they happen. That is the live labor picture Vantage will show.
Machine-Trak
Available NowAny asset reports run, idle and down, live. Start with OEE and utilization, then drill into why a machine stopped. The job link to Shop-Trak is expected by the end of 2026.
Quality-Trak
Available NowHolds and open nonconformance sit on the job. Vantage will show quality KPIs to every role; the detail needs a Quality-Trak seat.
Doc-Trak
Available NowDoc-Trak follows you through SyteLine to the right document. The drawing attached to the job is one click away.
Fact-Trak
Available NowJob cost and schedule position behind each Job 360 health check. Full Fact-Trak is part of the Pro tier.
Intelligence
Planned 2027AI across the platform flags risk before it becomes a late job. A person decides.
See the plant. Keep climbing.
Capacity scales, capability activates. Starter quantities of every product are included in every tier, so each stage starts as a pilot, not a purchase.
Labor on the record, live
Available NowClock-ins, quantities and scrap post to the job as they happen, with the job's drawing at the station.
Machines report themselves
Available NowStart with the machine included in your platform: OEE and utilization first, then downtime reasons, on any asset.
Quality on the job
Available NowHolds and nonconformance sit on the SyteLine job next to its labor, not in an inbox.
Run the plant from one screen
Expected Early 2027Job 360, the live shop view and role-based command centers, all reading the record you built.
What the job record makes possible
Cost on the open job
PlannedLabor today where you use direct job costing; machine and quality cost as the products come together.
The machine files its own paperwork
Planned 2027A machine condition opens the work and writes the cost back.
Scrap becomes a quality case by itself
In DevelopmentA scrap entry at the station opens the quality record.
What we hear about Vantage, and what we say back
Each one is a problem in a manufacturer's words. The answer names what Vantage does about it today, what is still coming, and where the problem sits in the 49 we have catalogued.
To answer one question I have to open five products.
Vantage is one role-based command center over the whole platform, expected early 2027. It follows you through SyteLine and assembles the health check for whatever record you are looking at, with Job 360 showing margin, schedule, exceptions and scrap for one job in a single view.
In the book of painYou should not need to open five products to get an answer Expected early 2027There is no single source of truth for a job The destination
Every status meeting starts with someone walking the floor to find out what is really running.
What you can do now is make the floor report itself: clock-ins, quantities and scrap post to the job as they happen with Shop-Trak, and machines report run, idle and down on their own with Machine-Trak. Available now. The live shop view that lights trouble areas for every role is expected early 2027.
In the book of painThe morning meeting argues about what is true Available nowThere is no single source of truth for a job The destination
Every role wants a different view, and nobody wants another login.
Vantage reads the same SyteLine data as the rest of the platform and shows each role its own view: the plant manager's late job, the supervisor's attainment and trouble areas, the operator's priority job. Expected early 2027, and included in every tier when it is released.
In the book of painYou should not need to open five products to get an answer Expected early 2027
What should we do before it arrives?
Build the record it reads. The picture is only as good as the data underneath it, and labor, documents and job cost already work on your SyteLine data today. Your account team confirms scope and timing. Everything marked expected is not yet released.
In the book of painThere is no single source of truth for a job The destinationLabor is keyed late, so job cost is wrong Available now
You buy the platform once. You grow it by switching on.
One subscription, one renewal
Your tier includes a license for each of its products, with starter quantities included, and you install what you need. One agreement covers all of it.
Capacity scales, capability activates
Add devices, users, seats or machines as you grow. New capability is switched on, not reinstalled. Machine-Trak connections may require a setup fee.
Care after go-live, included
Check-ins and activation help are part of the subscription. We'd rather come solve a real problem on your floor than run you through a demo.
Your account team sizes the platform with you and confirms the numbers in a written quote. Vantage is included in every tier when it is released, so the work now is building the record it will read.
Vantage is included in every tier when it is released.
SyteLine is your system of record. The Lake MES Platform is your system of execution.
Talk to a Vantage expert: (920) 406-3030. We'd rather come solve a real problem on your floor than run you through a demo.