Retrocausal

Higher Quality. Deeper Insight. Designed with AI, for today's manufacturer.

Empower your operators, engineers, and managers to dramatically boost the quality and productivity of your manual processes.

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What is Pathfinder™?

Digital Poke-Yoke without slowing down your Operators

Create digital mistake-proofing mechanisms for a variety of assembly and packing processes. Pathfinder tracks individual steps of an assembly process, and offers audible and visual alerts to help associates avoid mistakes.
Pathfinder also provides native support for Signal Towers and Projectors to reinforce its alerts.

Pathfinder measures cycle-times, step-level statistics, variations, and non-value add activities. This highlight process variability and helps industrial and lean engineers balance lines.
Pathfinder helps manufacturers extract more productivity out of their processes.

Continuous Time Studies with Prescriptive Guidelines

Video Traceability for the whole line

Pathfinder extends the typical notion of Total Quality Management (TQM) beyond traceability of parts, to every assembly step. This empowers industrial and quality engineers to analyze root cause of issues from their computers, and to narrow down product batches for recall events.

Pathfinder provides a social layer on top of its analytics to enable industrial and quality engineers and managers collaboratively perform root cause analysis and identify improvements from data.

Collaboration Tools to Make Insights Actionable

Operations Management through Pathfinder App

Pathfinder provides a smartphone app to enable production managers track units produced on assembly stations from anywhere. They can set alerts to get notification when a station is expected to become a bottleneck on the line.

Pathfinder natively supports a host of IoT devices to precisely measure physical aspects of parts and motion. The platform instructs and alerts operators using multiple modalities beyond traditional computer displays.

Holistic Integration with Plug-and-Play IoT Devices

Pathfinder is deployed on every kind of assembly, sub-assembly, kitting, and testing use case, from tiny electronics to entire vehicles coming down a conveyor.

Digitizing your entire Line

Assembly

Part Picking & Kitting

Test & Inspection

Engine Assembly

Electronics Assembly

Kit Packing

Planetary Gear Assembly

Valve Assembly

Gas Filter Assembly

Works with an Ordinary Webcam!

Get started on a Windows PC in a few minutes.

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Setup a new process within hours

Specify

Specify the Standard Operating Procedure.

Capture

Record a few shifts of the process.

Label

Label video recording of just one cycle.

Deploy

Train a machine learning model and deploy.

What do our customers say?

On the first implementation, we were able to cut our standard takt time in half in only a matter of weeks. Background analytics allow us to make and understand each assembly operation takt time as a whole utilizing all team member times where the analytics Pathfinder surfaces allow us to quickly verify that we are making the right decisions with each process change.
Travis Lindgren
Director of Smart Factory at Alliance Laundry Systems
The Retrocausal proof-of-concept demonstrated great promise for quality of manufacturing assembly, where Honda is continuously innovating, in addition to overall efficiency.
Nick Sugimoto
CEO at Honda Innovations
Siemens Digital Industries Software is enthusiastic about the collaboration with Retrocausal. This agreement is the first step in the development of an integrated solution that enables us to provide added value to our mutual customers.
Mohsen Rezayat
Chief Solutions Architect at Siemens Digital Industries Software.

Customers and Partners

We have some of the largest manufacturers and solution providers in United States, Japan, and South America as our customers. Here are a few of them.

NASA Award for Retrocausal

We are funded by NASA to assist crews heading to Mars perform complex procedures without needing to communicate in real-time with Mission Control back on Earth.

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Technology Award

Our technology won the Best Demonstration Award at the most prestigious conference in augmented reality, ISMAR.

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Judge's Choice Award

Retrocausal wins the Judge's Choice Award as well as the highest number of audience votes at the Vision Tank Competition out of dozens of computer vision startups.

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Retrocausal in CB Insights AM 50

Retrocausal made it to 2022 CB Insights Advanced Manufacturing 50 list, out of 6000 manufacturing technology companies.

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API and Integrations

We expose API to our software that is compatible with OPC UA and MQTT standards. We also provide integration with leading MES and identity management solutions.