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VKS Pro

Operator Guidance, Data & Intelligence

Create interactive work instructions that guide your operators, automate data collection, and ensure quality at every step.

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The Solution for Your Data Challenges

Building upon the core visual instruction features of VKS Lite, VKS Pro turns every instruction into a live data collection point. Gather operations insights efficiently, at every step, without messy paperwork or clunky software.

Eliminate Human Error with Live Process Guidance

When quality is engineered into the process itself, success no longer depends on memory, habit, or constant supervision. VKS Pro embeds critical checkpoints and automatic data validation directly into every step.

Live Operator Guidance

Direct your workforce with interactive, media-rich instructions that eliminate ambiguity and ensure compliance.

Integrated Checklists & Forms

Display dynamic checklists that trigger based on production quantities, events, or sensor data.

Collect Production Data

Capture measurements, serial numbers, part numbers, signatures, and even perform live automatic mathematical equations.

Device & Tool Integration

Eliminate errors by connecting directly to smart tools, sensors, barcode scanners, wireless measurement devices and more.

Capture Real-Time Performance & Operational Intelligence

Transform raw shop-floor data into actionable insights with automated productivity tracking. VKS Pro monitors time and quantity metrics in real time, providing the predictive analytics needed to anticipate bottlenecks and optimize production throughput.

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Advanced Production Metrics

VKS Pro tracks cycle time, production time, and key process metrics to calculate efficiency and predict remaining times.

02

Units & Work Order Tracking

Keep track of work orders and production quantities on your shop floor. VKS tracks expected, completed, and remaining units, and makes it easy to track the flow of products throughout your facility.

03

Visual Shop-Floor Dashboards

Turn raw production data into live visual displays and enable supervisors and managers to have their finger on the pulse of each operation and work order.

Real Results from Real Manufacturing Floors

Error-proofing every step.

Now the system doesn't let our employees make mistakes and proceed. This is incredibly important to us.

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Operator using a VKS digital form on a mounted touchscreen

Dynamic Processes & Non-Conformance Handling

Observe real-time work order status and operation data in VKS Pro. Easily access KPIs and export comprehensive reports, gaining a clear perspective on product flow and team performance across your factory floor.

Non-Conformance & Resolutions

Integrated non-conformance reports and resolution forms facilitate faster root-cause analysis and closed-loop corrective actions.

Operational Productivity & Quality Reports

Predict efficiency metrics and remaining time while viewing cycle times, set-up times, and more quality metrics.

Form Data & SPC Mapping

See every interaction with a smart form or checklist to monitor process confirmations, serial numbers, production data, and SPC charts.

Fast Work Instruction Migration via AI

Keep your existing processes intact. Leverage our services to instantly convert existing work instructions into VKS guidebooks via AI.

Why Manufacturers Choose VKS Pro

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VKS Pro

Operator Guidance, Data & Intelligence

Create interactive work instructions that guide your operators, automate data collection, and ensure quality at every step.

See VKS Pro In Action
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Capture Data

Collect production and quality data at every step.

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100% Visibility

Monitor KPIs and operations in real time.

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Zero-Defect Quality

Validate processes with smart forms and digital checklists.

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Optimize Processes

Turn shop floor data into actionable insights.

The Solution for Your Data Challenges

Building upon the core visual instruction features of VKS Lite, VKS Pro turns every instruction into a live data collection point. Gather operations insights efficiently, at every step, without messy paperwork or clunky software.

Challenge

Static instructions

Dynamic instructions icon representing responsive work instructions that adapt to changing process needsDynamic Work Instructions

Create responsive work instructions that adapt to changing process needs.

Result

Maintains process consistency

Challenge

Incomplete data

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Embed digital forms to capture serial numbers and quality checkpoints.

Result

Enables 100% traceability

Challenge

Lack of performance visibility

Analytics and reporting icon representing KPIs and predictive reports with real-time dashboardsKPIs & Predictive Reports

Track cycle time, efficiency, and FPY with real-time performance dashboards.

Result

Drives data-backed decisions

Challenge

Hosting & deployment friction

Hosting and deployment icon representing flexible SaaS and On-Premise hosting optionsFlexible SaaS & On-Prem Hosting

Choose SaaS scalability or maintain total data control with On-Premise.

Result

Tailors deployment to your needs
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Eliminate Human Error with Live Process Guidance

When quality is engineered into the process itself, success no longer depends on memory, habit, or operator supervision. VKS Pro enables critical checkpoints and automatic data validation directly into every step.

Live Operator Guidance

Direct your workforce with interactive, media-rich instructions that eliminate ambiguity and ensure compliance.

Integrated Checklists & Forms

Display dynamic checklists that trigger based on production quantities, events, or sensor data.

Full Traceability & Data Collection

Capture measurements, serial numbers, part numbers, signatures, and even perform live automatic mathematical equations.

Device & Tool Integration

Eliminate errors by connecting directly to smart tools, sensors, barcode scanners, wireless measurement devices and more.

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Capture Real-Time Performance & Operational Intelligence

Transform raw shop-floor data into actionable insights with automated productivity tracking. VKS Pro monitors time and quantity metrics in real time, providing the predictive analytics needed to anticipate bottlenecks and optimize production throughput.

Tablet displaying a VKS Pro guidebook for a drone frame assembly with annotated photo instructions
01

Advanced Production Metrics

VKS Pro tracks cycle time, production time, and key process metrics to calculate efficiency and predict remaining times.

02

Units & Work Order Tracking

Keep track of work orders and production quantities on your shop floor. VKS tracks expected, completed, and remaining units, and makes it easy to track the flow of products throughout your facility.

03

Visual Shop-Floor Dashboards

Turn raw production data into live visual displays and enable supervisors and managers to have their finger on the pulse of each operation and work order.

Real Results from Real Manufacturing Floors

Building quality checks into the process.

VKS has fostered quality through the use of custom forms that are embedded in each station's guidebooks, asking operators to inspect a few critical quality features of the prior process before beginning work in their station.

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Error-proofing every step.

Now the system doesn't let our employees make mistakes and proceed. This is incredibly important to us.

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Using smart forms to collect shop floor activity.

We started using VKS Smart Forms to trigger at certain points in the guidebooks. This informs our materials supervisor to send materials ahead of time.

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Dynamic Processes & Non-Conformance Handling

VKS Pro allows you to error-proof instructions at every step. Adjust to new conditions, instantly trigger digital forms for data capture, and send real-time notifications to manage deviations and non-conformances faster.

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Intelligent Responsive Instructions

Automatically open digital forms, trigger workflows, and navigate to specific steps based on user inputs or automated events.

Automate Notifications

Automatically notify teams of key events, including work instruction changes, non-conformances, and performance.

Non-Conformance & Resolutions

Integrated non-conformance reports and resolution forms facilitate faster root-cause analysis and closed-loop corrective actions.

Achieve Total Shop Floor Traceability

Observe real-time work order status and operation data in VKS Pro. Easily access KPIs and export comprehensive reports, gaining a clear visibility on product flow and team performance across your factory floor.

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Non-Conformance & Resolutions

Integrated non-conformance reports and resolution forms facilitate faster root-cause analysis and closed-loop corrective actions.

Operational Productivity & Quality Reports

Predict efficiency metrics and remaining time while viewing cycle times, set-up times, and more quality metrics.

Form Data & SPC Mapping

See every interaction with a smart form or checklist to monitor process confirmations, serial numbers, production data, and SPC charts.

Complete Product History

Track lot numbers, quantities, date/time, users, locations, and more to create complete history records.

Why Manufacturers Choose VKS Pro

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Interactive Standardization

Responsive instructions guide workers through every step and won't let the wrong decision move forward.

02

Digital Checklists & Forms

Quality evolves beyond something you inspect for at the end. It gets built into every step, every shift, every unit.

03

Connected Tools

When data comes straight from the tool, manual entry errors disappear. What gets measured gets done right.

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Continuous Improvement

Every cycle generates data. Every feedback loop drives action. Your process gets smarter every time it runs.

05

Next Level Traceability

Stop managing in the dark. Gain a high-resolution view of live production status and bottlenecks across your entire floor.

06

Dynamic Guidance

When conditions change mid-process, instructions change with them. Workers always know exactly what to do next.

See VKS Pro in Action

Connect with an industry expert for a personalized walkthrough.

Ready to unify your shop floor, enterprise systems, and smart tools? Learn about VKS Enterprise