Pally Biscuits builds connected factory on Factorise

September 1, 2025

Pally Biscuits, one of Europe’s leading private-label biscuit manufacturers, is building their connected factory on Factorise. What started as a single digital issue board has grown into a full shopfloor platform spanning four suites and 41 connected machines.

Pally runs high-volume bakery production from their facility in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. The challenge was familiar: production data lived in silos, issues were tracked informally, shift handovers depended on who happened to be around, and OEE was calculated after the fact rather than in real time.

Building a connected factory suite by suite

The project, internally known as “Bits & Biscuits,” rolled out in stages. First came the Issue Optimiser for structured issue capture and root cause analysis. Then Production Performance for real-time OEE monitoring across all lines. Production Execution followed, digitising changeover procedures, order tracking, and quality checks. Digital Lean brought daily management into one place: SQDEC boards, shift handovers, and action follow-up.

Each suite added a layer to the connected factory rather than replacing what came before: issue capture fed root cause analysis, root cause analysis fed daily management, and daily management now runs on the same real-time OEE data the shop floor already trusts.

Connecting the machines behind the connected factory

On the connectivity side, Factorise and technology partner Reniver connected 41 machines to the platform via PLC integration (Siemens and Allen-Bradley), creating a unified OT data layer through Reniver’s Reniway Edge platform. That data feeds directly into Factorise’s OEE calculations, downtime analysis, and operator dashboards.

That machine layer is what turns four separate suites into one connected factory: the same PLC data that flags a stoppage on the line also lands in the issue board, the OEE dashboard, and the shift handover, so operators, team leads and maintenance are working from one shared picture instead of three.

Results from the connected factory rollout

Typical results reported: 28% productivity boost through faster changeovers and reduced downtime, 20% cost savings from less waste and rework, and 75% improvement in cross-shift collaboration. As Pally put it: “One operator platform, connected to our machines, makes that possible.”

The next phase focuses on expanding machine connectivity to the remaining PLCs and moving toward predictive insights based on the integrated data foundation.

Why private-label bakery production needs a connected factory

Private-label manufacturers like Pally run frequent changeovers between recipes, packaging formats and customer specifications, often on the same line within a single shift. That mix makes a connected factory more valuable than it would be on a single-product line: every changeover, quality check and stoppage is a chance for data to get lost between systems if planning, execution and maintenance don’t share the same picture. By putting the Issue Optimiser, Production Performance, Production Execution and Digital Lean suites on one platform, Pally keeps that context intact from the moment an issue is logged to the moment it shows up in the next daily management meeting.

It’s also why the connectivity work with Reniver mattered as much as the software itself. A connected factory is only as good as the machine data feeding it, and Pally’s 41 connected machines mean the OEE numbers, downtime reasons and changeover times operators see in Factorise reflect what is actually happening on the line, not a manual estimate entered after the shift.

About Factorise

Factorise is a composable, Mendix-based digital shopfloor platform built for mid-market manufacturers, spanning seven suites and more than 40 modules. Because it is built natively on Mendix, manufacturers like Pally can extend their connected factory themselves as new use cases come up, rather than depending entirely on external developers for every change. For Pally, that means the connected factory can keep growing suite by suite and machine by machine, on the same platform and the same data foundation it started with.