Strato Strato

Strato is a concept I scoped and built myself, solo, from the brief a real CNC-plant owner would give. Operators who can run and recover their own machines from the HMI, managers who read the floor at a glance, and a service team that can support both. Everything on screen is running code; the plant is a fiction, simulated once as an IoT fleet would be: every machine reports its state, every view reads from that feed.

A plant has no single user. The operator needs one machine and one next action, mid-shift with their hands full; the manager needs the whole fleet, exceptions first. And industrial software loses the room the moment a number looks invented or an AI suggestion reads like a guess.

Split by who is standing there. The operator view puts one machine on screen as its own electrical drawing, with its live program, its alarm and one primary action; the manager view is the inverse: the fleet as status pills, exceptions first.

One event drives the whole app. A machine down on a filter-pump battery runs end to end: the operator works a six-step guided repair, and every count, timeline and status pill updates live. Service is the last resort, reached only on escalation, with the ticket pre-filled with everything already tried.

AI as a procedure, not a personality. The guided repair will not pass step one until the spare parts are confirmed in hand, and everything the agent touches wears one reserved colour, so a suggestion is never mistaken for a fact.

A working product demo you can open right now. Not a shipped product, but the whole job in one artifact: roles, information architecture, a design system, live state and a restrained use of AI in a safety context. What it has not had is a real operator’s hands; that is the next revision.