DigitalFactoryLab is not a product pitch and not a mockup. It is a running reference architecture for industrial data — and this page tells you exactly what is real, what is simulated, and why it was built this way.
DigitalFactoryLab is a complete industrial-data stack — from station-level telemetry to live analytics — designed, built and operated end-to-end by one engineer, and left running 24/7 for anyone to inspect.
Most shopfloor-visibility claims come as slideware: an architecture diagram, a few screenshots, a promise. This project takes the opposite approach. A simulated EV-powertrain plant — a rotor line, a traction-inverter line, an assembly line and a low-volume hypercar cell — streams OPC UA and MQTT telemetry through a MonsterMQ broker into PostgreSQL, at roughly 2.1 million rows a day. The dashboards you can open from this site query that database live. Nothing on this site is a recording.
The point is simple: if the architecture works, you should be able to open it at 3 a.m. on a Sunday and watch parts move through stations. You can. Not screenshots — the real thing, running now.
Simulation engine, OPC UA servers, MQTT namespace design, broker configuration, ingestion pipeline, database schema and indexing, every dashboard and this website — one person, one coherent system. That is deliberate: the value of a reference architecture is that every layer was chosen and wired for a reason, and the person behind it can explain each one.
The background behind it is real industrial delivery — electric-motor and power-electronics manufacturing programs and enterprise shopfloor-IT projects — distilled into a system small enough to understand and honest enough to trust.
Every page of this site is labeled "Live demo · simulated data". Here is the exact boundary.
The dashboard observes the line — it never controls it. Clean ISA-95 Level 2 visibility that a MES or any other system can consume, with zero risk to production. Observation and control are kept strictly separate.
OPC UA, MQTT, ISA-95, ISA-88, SQL. No proprietary lock-in anywhere in the pipeline — every layer can be replaced by any tool that speaks the same open protocol.
Simulated data is always labeled simulated. Live numbers are always genuinely live. No staged screenshots, no cherry-picked KPIs, no fake team, no fake customers. If a figure is on this site, you can reproduce it from the running system.
The best introduction is the system itself — open the live dashboard, browse the case study, check the status page. Then reach out about shopfloor visibility, OPC UA / MQTT integration or Industry 4.0 delivery.