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FactryOS v6 is here: Launching a Modern Checklist Experience
If you manage quality in a production environment, you already know the story. Operators run around the shop floor with paper checklists that are difficult to manage, or are completed hours after the actual check. At the end of the shift, someone has to manually type the results into Excel. By the time an issue surfaces, it’s usually too late: non-conformities slip through and nobody fully trusts the data. Today, with FactryOS v6, we’re changing that.
Usman Khalil
Mar 31, 2026
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FactryOS v6 is here: Launching a Modern Checklist Experience
If you manage quality in a production environment, you already know the story. Operators run around the shop floor with paper checklists that are difficult to manage, or are completed hours after the actual check. At the end of the shift, someone has to manually type the results into Excel. By the time an issue surfaces, it’s usually too late: non-conformities slip through and nobody fully trusts the data. Today, with FactryOS v6, we’re changing that.
Usman Khalil
Factry Historian v8.1: Ask your data anything
Factry Historian v8.1 furthers our mission to make industrial data easier to access, understand, and use with the launch of the MCP server. In doing so, Factry is connecting structured industrial data to the AI interfaces you already use. This release also brings a lot of refinement, consistency across the platform, and more robust calculations.
Jente De Meyer
Why Most Factories are Not Ready for AI
The case for using AI/LLMs in manufacturing is compelling to say the least. Imagine just asking your phone for the batch report for a batch that came back with a complaint, and getting the answer right away instead of having to sift through data or reports.
Usman Khalil
Should you Build Your Own Data Historian? Here's Why It Might be a Bad Idea
Factry is built on open-source software. This is one of our strengths. However, it often leads to a very reasonable question from potential customers: If all this software is open source, why would we need Factry at all? Why can’t we just build our own data historian?
Michiel Mastelinck
Factry Historian v8
With Factry Historian V8 we removed the everyday friction that slows factories down. From clearer insights to faster configuration and smarter KPIs, V8 helps teams understand what happened and why, without extra work.
Jente De Meyer
Want to trust your production data? Start exploring it yourself.
Companies that don't enable self-service data exploration and dashboard creation pay a hidden but substantial cost. Not in system failures or compliance issues, but in missed opportunities that never get identified and underutilized teams who stop engaging with data altogether.
Jeroen Coussement
Deploying a script to all assets in one click with Factry Historian
Your factory has thousands of assets, pumps, valves, ... running calculations on them and deploying scripts shouldn't be done one by one. Here's how to use a single dynamic script across many assets.
Jente De Meyer
Factry Historian v7.3: Faster setup, time-weighted averages, improved Grafana dashboards.
We’ve focused on what matters most:
Cut setup time from hours to minutes with bulk asset and property imports. Build richer Grafana dashboards with advanced filtering, parent-child event logic, and SQL expressions. Get more accurate insights from sparse data using true time-weighted averages.
These enhancements make Factry Historian faster to configure, easier to use, and more reliable in real-world conditions.
Jente De Meyer
How the Factry Historian data source for Grafana enables data-driven insights for factory teams
Learn how Factry’s Historian data source for Grafana empowers engineers and operators to build structured, reusable dashboards. Making process data accessible to everyone on the factory floor. Featuring a real-world example from Agristo.
Frederik Van Leeckwyck