“We’re growing faster than we can hire.”
Demand is through the roof, but skilled labor is scarce—and onboarding new operators takes months.
Industrial IoT · Systems Engineering · Product Development
Grow your output. Not your headcount.
Hitting manufacturing growing pains? The fix isn’t scrambling to hire more people—it’s building better systems. Mr. IIoT is an industrial IoT and systems engineering firm that connects your legacy machinery and automates the operational busywork. We give your current team the tools to produce more without the overhead.
What we do
Three ways we help manufacturers.
Systems integration
We connect your machines, integrate your software, and automate the busywork — ERP, EDI, dashboards, and everything between — so your team produces more without adding headcount.
Product development
We develop products for OEMs and machine builders: electronic board sets, embedded firmware, and the software that runs them — the way we do for Chicago Coding Systems.
Hardware manufacturing
We’re a manufacturer too. The SHARC sensor adapter is designed, engineered, and manufactured by Mr. IIoT — so we’ve lived the constraints our customers live every day.
Sound familiar?
Real factory floor problems (that look familiar).
We hear the same frustrations from scaling manufacturers every day:
“My team burns hours on manual data entry.”
Re-keying orders, logs, and compliance reports eats up unbillable time and invites costly mistakes.
“Our systems don’t talk, so our people are the middleware.”
Operators shouldn’t spend their day manually bridging the gaps between your ERP, machines, spreadsheets, and emails.
“I can’t see where we’re losing time or money.”
Without real-time floor visibility, utilization, downtime, and true job costs are just a guessing game until month-end.
“Every new customer adds a mountain of paperwork.”
Growth should bring operational leverage, not a wave of manual EDI tasks and labeling bottlenecks.
“Downtime always catches us off guard.”
Maintenance remains entirely reactive. By the time a bottleneck shows up on a weekly report, the line has already been down for days.
The outcome
Operational leverage.
We engineer the infrastructure that takes the busywork off your people, so you can run leaner as you scale.
Eliminate manual chaos
Kill repetitive data entry and redundant paperwork, and free your staff to focus on real production.
Scale without overhead
Take on more orders, deploy more machines, and win larger customers with the exact headcount you have right now.
Data-driven execution
Get instant visibility into uptime, utilization, and costs, so you decide on floor facts instead of gut feel.
Unified infrastructure
Integrate your physical machinery with your core business software so data flows automatically.
From floor to frontier
The implementation pipeline.
- 1ConnectivityLink any sensor, machine, or legacy protocol.
- 2Data CollectionSecurely capture edge telemetry in real time.
- 3IntegrationClean, shape, and route data to your tools.
- 4AnalyticsTurn raw data into clear visual dashboards.
- 5Operator AppsBuild the screens and forms your floor runs on.
- 6OperationsRun maintenance and production from one thread.
- 7SupportKeep lines running with on-demand diagnostics.
01 · Connectivity
Link every asset on your floor.
Don’t pay a five-figure OEM fee just to get a single legacy machine online—especially when half your assets speak languages nothing else understands.
Whether you need to introduce entirely new measurements or tap a machine you’ve owned for decades, we extract the signal smoothly.
SHARC — the universal sensor adapter
Connect any analog or digital industrial sensor to your network for a fraction of traditional OEM costs. Instantly track throughput, pressure, temperature, current, or vibration. Floor proof: one customer replaced an OEM connectivity quote with two SHARC units at one-tenth the original estimate.
- Universal compatibility across all major sensor manufacturers
- Powers the sensor directly and publishes data over MQTT
- Engineered with a one-way data diode for secure, classified environments
DIME — the machine translator
Data In Motion Enterprise is a high-performance edge connector that speaks your equipment’s native language. It turns PLCs, robots, CNCs, and databases into a single, unified data stream with zero custom coding.
- 50+ protocols out of the box: Fanuc CNC/Robots, Yaskawa, Siemens S7, Allen-Bradley/Ethernet/IP, Beckhoff ADS, Modbus, OPC-UA, and more
- Runs natively at the edge for sub-millisecond latency
- Works with top databases and brokers: MSSQL, Postgres, Timescale, Redis, MQTT, SparkplugB
A plethora of protocols — 50+ and counting, including:
- Fanuc CNC
- Fanuc Robot
- Yaskawa Robot
- Haas SHDR
- Brother CNC
- Siemens S7
- Beckhoff ADS
- Ethernet/IP
- Modbus/TCP
- OPC-UA
- OPC-DA
- MTConnect
- MQTT
- SparkplugB
- ActiveMQ
- SNMP
- TCP Ascii
- HTTP
- MSSQL
- Postgres
- Redis
- Timescale
- Wintriss
- XML Web Scraper
02 · Data Collection
Break out of data silos.
Raw machine data is useless if it’s locked in a proprietary black box or trapped on the factory floor.
We stream edge readings using open, modern standards—JSON over MQTT—so you fully own your data with zero vendor lock-in. Alert on abnormal readings, record equipment events, and build a faithful record of how your machines actually run.
- Secure, real-time edge telemetry capture
- Open standards: JSON over MQTT
- You own your data—zero vendor lock-in
03 · Integration
Land it where your teams actually work.
From there, we clean, shape, and route that stream directly into the applications your teams use every day—whether a system needs data pushed to it or wants to ask for it.
DIME — the DataOps engine
A low-code/no-code routing environment that normalizes and pushes the unified stream to historians, brokers, databases, and analytics tools. Mismatched assets finally feed one coherent operational picture.
- Delivers directly to 16+ destinations—Splunk, MongoDB, SparkplugB, and more
- Normalizes and contextualizes without custom code
- Standards-based: MTConnect, OPC-UA, SparkplugB
i3X — make data queryable
i3X (Industrial Information Interoperability Exchange) turns legacy databases, spreadsheets, and machinery into standardized, queryable REST APIs with built-in semantic models.
- Eliminates custom integration code
- Automatic schema discovery and one-click mapping
- AI-powered search and MCP integration—apps just ask for the data they need
04 · Analytics
From gut feel to real-time facts.
Stop reacting to downtime hours after a shift ends.
With your operational data flowing cleanly, custom dashboards and predictive analytics flag anomalies before your lines grind to a halt. You get the insight to improve quality and maximize OEE—on an open platform that stays completely yours.
- Custom dashboards and predictive anomaly alerts
- Improve quality and maximize OEE
- Open platform—your data stays yours
05 · Operator Apps
spark studio.Industrial software. Built your way.
Your data is connected — but operators still work off whiteboards, spreadsheets, and screens nobody can change without a license renewal.
Spark Studio is an industrial application builder for controls engineers and integrators. Design operator screens, forms, and process graphics in the browser, connect them to PLC, OPC UA, and SQL data, and publish to a gateway you host yourself.
- Browser Designer: 45 components, templates, popups, and data bindings
- Talks to your floor: OPC UA, Modbus, EtherNet/IP, S7, ADS, MQTT, MTConnect, and i3X
- Python 3 scripting on the gateway, plus SQL-backed tables and forms
- Ask Spark: an AI assistant that builds alongside you
06 · Operations
People. Machines. One connected system.
Maintenance lives in one tool, production in another, and the real answers live in the heads of the people who’ve been here 20 years.
IQ Thread is the AI factory intelligence system: maintenance, production, machine data, and your team’s know-how in one place. Planners, operators, and maintenance work from the same thread — and Ask IQ answers from what your team already knows.
- Maintain equipment: work orders, PM, assets, spares, and purchasing
- Plan production: jobs, dispatch, operator counts, and OEE
- Connect machines: live sensor data and automatic alerts
- Capture what your team knows: manuals and past fixes, searchable
- Ask IQ: “Why did Haas 4 slow down last night?”
07 · Support
Intelligent diagnostics for the plant floor.
When a machine goes down at 2 AM, the fix shouldn’t require digging through a dusty 400-page manual or an old email chain.
Tracebook turns your equipment manuals, schematics, and resolved tickets into an instant, searchable knowledge base—AI tech support for machine OEMs, white-labeled under your brand.
- Verifiable answers: every reply links to the exact source page
- Multi-modal inputs: ask by text, a photo of a fault screen, or a video clip
- Closed-loop ticketing: unresolved issues escalate to humans, and resolutions train the AI
The product matrix
Six products, one connected pipeline.
Connect & integrate
ConnectivitySHARC
Universal IoT sensor adapter. Gets any sensor onto any network.
Connectivity · IntegrationDIME
Universal translator. Ingests 50+ protocols; normalizes and routes data anywhere.
Integrationi3X
Turns disparate legacy data sources into standardized, queryable REST APIs.
Build, run & support
Operator Apps
Spark Studio
Build operator screens, forms, and process graphics on live PLC and SQL data.
sparkstudiox.com ↗
Operations
IQ Thread
AI factory intelligence: maintenance, production, and team know-how in one system.
iqthread.app ↗
Smart Support
Tracebook
AI technical support for OEMs, drawing verified answers straight from your documentation.
tracebook.ai ↗Case studies
Proven results on the plant floor.
Machine Monitoring
Ox Box unlocked real-time uptime and productivity metrics with SHARC sensors and Grafana dashboards.
Compliance & Traceability
A nationwide commercial bakery met strict FDA traceability requirements with a custom SSCC system and SHARC.
Order Processing
Tempco fully automated their Grainger EDI pipeline, eliminating manual order-entry bottlenecks.
FAQ
Common questions.
What does Mr. IIoT do?
Mr. IIoT is an industrial IoT and systems engineering firm — and a manufacturer in its own right. We connect your machines, integrate your systems, and automate the operational busywork; we also develop products for OEMs (board sets, firmware, software) and manufacture our own SHARC hardware.
Does Mr. IIoT build custom hardware and products?
Yes. We develop products end to end for manufacturers and machine builders — electronic board sets, embedded firmware, and application software. For Chicago Coding Systems, that means the boards, firmware, and software behind their marking and labeling equipment. See product development.
Do you manufacture your own products?
Yes. The SHARC universal IoT sensor adapter is designed, engineered, and manufactured by Mr. IIoT in the Greater Chicago Area — board, firmware, apps, and support, all in-house.
Do I have to replace my existing machines or software?
No. We work with the equipment and systems you already own — connecting legacy machines, tapping existing PLCs, and integrating your current ERP, historian, and tools.
What products does Mr. IIoT make?
Six: SHARC (universal IoT sensor adapter), DIME (universal protocol translator and DataOps), i3X (turns any data source into queryable REST APIs), Spark Studio (build your own operator screens and industrial apps), IQ Thread (AI factory intelligence for maintenance and production), and Tracebook (AI tech support for machine OEMs).
Do I own my data, or is there vendor lock-in?
You own your data. Telemetry streams in open standards — JSON over MQTT — and the platform is open, with no proprietary lock-in at the source.
How fast can we see results?
Often days to weeks, not quarters. DIME can connect machines in hours, and a monitoring dashboard can be standing up in days rather than months.
What industries do you work with?
Manufacturers and machine OEMs across aerospace, packaging, food & baking, fluid systems, CNC and contract machining, and capital-equipment building.
How do we get started?
Tell us where the bottlenecks are and we’ll map the shortest path to better systems. Start a conversation or email chris@mriiot.com.
Ready to scale your operations without scaling your overhead?
We build the connectivity, integration, and automation architectures that help manufacturers grow efficiently. Drop us a line and we’ll map your shortest path to better systems.