A wingman flies beside you. You stay in command.
A combination weigher is a very good machine attached to a job no person can do properly. Fourteen feeders, each behaving slightly differently, all drifting through a shift. Somebody has to notice and correct that, continuously, for eight hours, without a lapse of attention.
Nobody has that time. So lines run beautifully with the good operator on and mediocre with everyone else, and the efficiency number swings by shift in a way that nobody can fully explain.
Wingman does that one job. It flies beside the machine, watching what a person can't watch, and you can switch it back to watching only at any moment.
The lead element, and a smaller one holding station off its wingtip: beside, and slightly behind. Never in front.
The mark encodes the safety story. So does the software.
Kevin Bento
Wingman Automation is Kevin Bento's company, based in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Kevin spent ten years at PepsiCo, working in every part of the operation, from shipping through packaging and scheduling. He designed and built Wingman, and is the inventor behind its pending patent.
When you book a line assessment, you talk to Kevin directly.
Evidence before adjectives.
Every number here is traceable
Every figure published on this site traces to a line-by-line audit of the production data from one session. Hover or tap any source tag to see how it was derived. If a number can't be sourced, it doesn't go on the site.
Counters, not estimates
Efficiency and giveaway come from the machine's own counters rather than logged averages, because counters are ground truth. Where the two disagree we publish the counter figure, including when it is the less flattering one.
Caveats are an asset
The machine these results came from had a mechanical feed fault for the entire session. We say so on every page that uses the numbers.
Where the technology stands.
The architecture is patent pending. The system has been run autonomously on a live production line at a Canadian snack-food manufacturer, writing to real machinery, alongside machines operated the way they always had been.
What exists today is a strong, fully audited proof of concept on a measured session, not years of sustained production history, and we don't describe it as such. As longer armed runs accumulate, the language on this site will be upgraded and the evidence behind it republished.
We do not name the customer, the site, the equipment manufacturer, or any product brand, anywhere. That is deliberate.
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