Stop one trip from becoming a lost shift.
When a substation breaker trips, thirty machines alarm at once. When a press trips on tonnage, the alarm clears as soon as the ram is back up. When a curing oven spikes for 200 ms, nobody sees it until bodies fail inspection. Moonshot Lagrange governs every alarm at the machine and carries it to the enterprise.
Your plant already counts the downtime. Nothing counts the alarms.
Availability loss gets recorded by category: breakdowns, setups and adjustments, minor stops, reduced speed. None of those categories is “the time it took to work out which of forty alarms mattered.” So that time is booked as a breakdown or a minor stop, the alarm system never appears in the analysis, and the loss stays invisible to the people who measure everything else.
Unplanned breakdown, 41 minutes
One line in the downtime log, assigned to the machine that stopped.
Thirty-six alarms in ten seconds
The machine that stopped was not the machine that failed. Most of those minutes were spent finding that out.
The stop carries its own history
Which alarm caused it, who acknowledged it, what was done, and whether it has happened before.
We do not bring you an industry average for this. Your downtime cost per hour is your number; the assessment measures how much of it is alarm handling on one line, and you decide what that is worth.
Thirty-six alarms in. One incident out.
A plant substation trip hits every machine on the line at once. Operators used to hunt for the cause in a wall of red. Moonshot Lagrange groups the flood in 5 seconds and puts the parent trip on top.
Simultaneous alarms, each demanding an acknowledgment. The root cause is one line among dozens.
Parent incident with 35 child alarms under it, and a Maximo work order already open.
Most plants have alarm dispatch. Few have alarm governance.
Getting the alarm to a person is solved: andon boards, radios, phones. What no one can answer afterwards is who acknowledged the press trip, whether the die was inspected before the line restarted, or why the same sensor has chattered for six weeks. Moonshot Lagrange holds the state, not just the message.
A cascade becomes one incident with the parent trip named, in seconds.
A safety trip holds through the condition clearing, until an authorized reset with a comment.
An operator can mute a nuisance alarm on a capped timer. It comes back on its own.
Alarms stand down when equipment is deliberately off, and return when it runs.
ANSI/ISA-18.2 applies to continuous, batch and discrete processes; ISA-TR18.2.6 covers batch and discrete specifically, including alarms that track operating state, automated audit trails and management of change.
Contained, accounted for, turned into work.
Floods become one incident
A 5-second correlation window groups cascade trips under a single parent card, so operators see the cause first.
Safety trips stay latched
A high-consequence trip cannot clear until a supervisor resets it with an inspection comment.
Transients leave a record
Excursions that clear before anyone acknowledges them stay visible until signed off.
Every alarm becomes work
Priority alarms open IBM Maximo work orders automatically, queued safely through network outages.
Brownfield PLCs join without middleware
Modbus TCP, OPC-UA, Rockwell CIP and Siemens S7 connect directly, read-only by default.
Governed shelving
Nuisance alarms shelve on a policy-capped timer with a plant-wide quota, and come back on their own.
The Cell-in-a-Box software stack, on your own IPC.
Fully offline in the cell. Outbound-only across your DMZ. A failure stays contained to one cell.
Every role gets a reason to care.
VP Manufacturing
The pain: Cascade trips cost whole shifts.
What you get: Incident correlation plus automatic Maximo work orders.
Reliability Director
The pain: Failures found after the damage.
What you get: Transient capture, edge AI anomaly scoring and physics residuals.
Controls Engineering Director
The pain: Brownfield PLCs and write liability.
What you get: Protocol bridge, read-only by default, and a 3-tier write gate.
One line. Thirty days. Read-only.
Start with a paid pilot on one production line. Moonshot Lagrange runs on a single industrial PC that you own, or one we supply preloaded. We set it up against your alarm philosophy and tag list and leave it governing alarms for thirty days, with engineering support through the window.
It reads your control network and writes nothing to it. No setpoints, no commands, no change to what your equipment does.
- One gateway, one line, one PLC protocol, an agreed tag count
- Setup against your alarm philosophy and tag list, with engineering support
- Thirty days governing alarms in production
- You keep the benchmark, the sizing recommendation and the decision
No changes to your control logic or alarm configuration. No rip-and-replace, no data lake, no IT project to stand up first. Read-only from day one.
Five live scenarios, one showroom tour.
EV welder thermal runaway
Trips in under 5 ms; the Maximo work order opens before the operator reaches the cell.
Latched 2,500-ton press
The condition clears, but the alarm holds until a supervisor inspects the die.
Nuisance-alarm shelving
A chattering sensor shelves on a capped timer, then returns on its own.
Paint oven transient
A 200 ms spike stays on the board until someone signs off.
36-unit substation cascade
The flood collapses into one parent incident.
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Moonshot Lagrange
Software for industrial operations, built in Houston, Texas.
Designed to adhere to ANSI/ISA-18.2 and IEC 62682. Network architecture aligned to IEC 62443 zone and conduit principles.