Built by an industrial electrician and maintenance mechanic for food plants
PlantLink OS reads your PLCs, shows every kettle and line live, keeps the batch and food safety records, and runs work orders from the same screen. AI drafts. Your people confirm.
Now in beta. Pilots open for small and mid-size food manufacturers.
Every kettle. Every record. Every work order. One screen.
Most plants run the floor in one tool, quality in binders, and maintenance in another. PlantLink OS puts them side by side so a fault, a hold and a work order are the same conversation.
SCADA and HMI screens for kettles, lines and zones, fed straight from your Allen-Bradley and Siemens PLCs.
QC readings, holds, cleaning and compliance records kept with the batch, ready for the next audit.
Work orders, preventive maintenance and parts, opened from the alarm that caused them and closed by the tech who fixed it.
Orders to fill, warehouse and transport planning tied to what the floor is actually making.
Explains alarms, suggests the likely cause and drafts the paperwork. It works for your team and never replaces a decision.
A plant health index and savings view built from real readings, so the value is visible and not guessed.
See the state of the line and what an alarm means. Report a fault from the phone in seconds.
PMs due, open work orders and machine history on the phone, even when the Wi-Fi drops.
Readings, holds, cleaning and sign-offs in one batch record. No more chasing clipboards.
One overview of lines, orders and plant health, so you hear about problems from the system and not the hallway.
PLC data on tap, and drafts of panel documents and schematics to review and finish.
Four things every food plant puts up with, and what happens in PlantLink OS instead.
The problem
The one person who knew is on vacation, and the manual is in an office on the other side of the building.
In PlantLink OS
Every alarm shows plain-language meaning, a likely cause and the last time it happened. One tap turns it into a work order.
[What this alarm means, in plain words]
The problem
Temperatures on one clipboard, cleaning sign-offs on another, and a hold that only lives in someone's memory.
In PlantLink OS
Readings, holds, cleaning and sign-offs are kept with the batch as they happen. Pull one batch and see its whole story, with who did what and when.
The problem
Nobody can say when a gearbox was last greased, or why the same pump keeps failing.
In PlantLink OS
Each machine keeps its own history: PMs due, faults, repairs and parts used. The tech sees what's due on a phone, and finished work is closed out on the spot.
The problem
Dead spots, wet gloves and a screen too small to read mean the entry gets written on a glove or a hand.
In PlantLink OS
The mobile app has big buttons and keeps working offline. Entries are saved on the phone and sent when the connection comes back.
PlantLink Intelligence reads what the plant is doing, explains it in plain words, and drafts the work that eats your team's day. It checks its own answers and shows its reasoning, so you can see why it said what it said.
Some Intelligence features are still in beta. How it works in detail is shared with customers under NDA.
The AI tracks regulations, records and audits so your team doesn't chase paper. The decisions stay with the people who are accountable for them.
Safety and compliance aren't a separate module you open once a year. The records are built from what happens on the floor, as it happens.
Need a specific standard or record format? Tell us in the pilot request and we'll say plainly what's supported today.
Operators and maintenance staff get a mobile app for iPhone and iPad. It opens work orders, reports faults, takes QC readings and shows alarms, and it keeps working when the Wi-Fi drops on the far side of the plant.
A PlantLink Edge gateway sits on the plant network, reads your controllers and sends data out. No inbound ports are opened to your control network.
Your data lives on equipment you choose. You don't pay a third-party cloud to see your own plant.
The gateway only reads. Nothing on the line is rewired or reprogrammed.
A pilot starts on one line or one area. You decide what, if anything, to move over.
Tell us which. We'll say plainly what connects today and what doesn't.
Running a different controller or system? Ask us. We'd rather tell you what works today than promise what doesn't.
I spent seven years in plant maintenance as an industrial electrician, a mechanic and an operator, and the last two in food manufacturing. I built PlantLink OS out of the frustrations I kept running into on the floor.
I wanted one system that shows what the machines are doing, keeps the records the plant is accountable for, and gives the person holding the wrench the same picture as the person in the office.
Devon Dalton, founder, BlackObsidian Automation LLC
PlantLink OS is in beta, and the first customer release will be version 1.0. Here is where each part stands today, so you know what you're getting.
Statuses change as we ship. Ask us for the current list before a pilot.
Put in your own numbers. This is plain arithmetic on what you enter. It doesn't predict what PlantLink OS would save.
PlantLink OS is an annual license by plan, with a one-time setup per site that covers getting your plant connected and the hardware it runs on. A yearly maintenance fee covers new releases, security updates and hardware warranty, and support options sit on top.
No per-tag fees. No per-user fees. Add every machine and every person.
We quote after walking your plant.
No. The gateway only reads. PlantLink OS watches your controllers but cannot change a setpoint or start a machine.
On equipment you choose: a small on-site PC at first, then a server at the plant. If you'd rather not run it yourself, we can host a server for you.
No. A pilot starts on one line or one area, next to what you already have. You decide what to move over, if anything.
It explains alarms, suggests likely causes and drafts entries. A person reviews and confirms every one. It doesn't edit regulated records, sign or approve anything, set limits or relax a cleaning step.
The mobile app saves what you enter on the phone and sends it when the connection returns.
BlackObsidian Automation LLC, founded by an industrial electrician and maintenance mechanic who has worked on food plant floors. You talk to the person who built it.
We're running paid pilots with food manufacturers in the Rochester, NY area. You get real data from your own equipment, a working system on your floor, and a clear answer before you commit to anything longer.