Process Intelligence Platform

Making every factory intelligent.

April Tech is an AI-powered process intelligence platform that turns raw PLC data into real-time insight. Built for manufacturers of all sizes — entering through the 50,000+ small and mid-size plants still running on spreadsheets and paper logs.

The platform

Everything your plant engineer needs - without the tool sprawl. . No more switching.

One platform for anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and statistical process control. DOE and risk quantification arriving 2026.

How it works

Three steps from sensor controllers to insight.

A software-only platform that turns the data your PLCs already generate into real-time process intelligence — without buying a single new sensor.

01 / CONNECT

Plug into the PLCs you already own

April agent runs on a small industrial PC inside your plant network. No proprietary hardware required

02 / DETECT

AI flags issues in real time

Multivariate machine learning detects deviations before they become defects — and explains the likely root cause in plain operator language.

03 / OPTIMIZE

Tune toward the golden batch

Built-in SPC charts, DOE tools, and golden-batch identification — unified in one interface running live against your real process data.

A look inside

Statistical control, live on your floor.

April's built-in SPC charts run continuously against your real process data — catching out-of-control conditions the moment they emerge.

X-bar chart · Reactor T-204 · Temperature
Subgroup size n=5 · last 27 batches
IN CONTROL
186 184 182 180 178 176 UCL · 185.4°C LCL · 177.6°C CL · 181.5°C B-01 B-05 B-09 B-13 B-17 B-21 B-25
Subgroup mean Center line Control limits (±3σ)

X-bar, R, CUSUM, EWMA, and capability indices (Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk) — all native, all live.

Why it matters

Unplanned downtime costs 3–5× more than planned maintenance.

And yet most small and mid-size manufacturers still discover problems after they've already happened — through scrap, customer complaints, or a missed shipment.

$20K
Per hour of downtime
Average cost for a discrete manufacturer (ARC Advisory Group).
15–20%
Revenue lost to COPQ
Cost of poor quality eats a fifth of every dollar of revenue (Siemens 2024).
<5%
Of collected data analyzed
Most process data is recorded and never looked at again.
47%
Run on spreadsheets
Nearly half of small manufacturers still monitor with Excel and paper (McKinsey).
ROI calculator

See what April Tech is worth on your line.

Choose the areas where you're losing time or output, adjust the numbers to match your plant, and we'll estimate the annual benefit. Defaults reflect typical small and mid-size manufacturers — every field is yours to change.

Where could April Tech create value?
Your numbers
Typical SMB pilot
Industry avg ~8–15
SMB discrete ~$5K–20K
Output that runs through the line
Share of value lost to defects
Across engineers & operators
Wages + overhead, blended
Lower utilization = more headroom to recover
Estimated annual benefit
$0/yr
Select at least one area to see an estimate.

Directional estimate for planning only — not a quote. Ranges reflect conservative-to-upside capture rates observed across discrete and process manufacturing. A pilot replaces these assumptions with your actual data.

Start the conversation

Talk to us about a pilot at your facility.

Start with a single line and a focused 30-day evaluation — see what April finds in your data