How We Rebuilt Furnace Monitoring Screens for Idletechs
Idletechs builds an AI that recognises the materials inside an industrial furnace while metal is made. The model is half the product. Operators act only on what they can read while the furnace runs. Each new analysis needed a new view, and fixed screens were rewritten every time. The Norwegian company also needed frontend engineers fast, people who could learn the domain. Hygge sourced, onboarded and ran frontend engineers inside its team for 15 months. They rebuilt the monitoring interface around widgets, so a new view no longer means a new screen.
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Where an Industrial AI Interface Falls Behind
The model is half the product. The other half is showing its output to the people running a furnace.
Continuous, High-Volume Data
Process analytics arrive all the time and have to stay readable.
Views That Keep Growing
Each new analysis needs a new view, and fixed screens get rewritten every time.
Plots of Many Widths
Zoom has to behave the same across quality plots of any width.
Capacity Needed Quickly
The client needed frontend engineers added to its team fast.
Domain Fit
Generic contractors would take too long to understand the product.
The Challenge
Idletechs watches what happens inside industrial furnaces. It sees what is in the furnace as metal is made and turns that into live analytics. A plant uses them to tune the process and hold quality. Showing that stream of process data in a form operators can act on is as hard as the model itself. The client needed frontend engineers added to its own team quickly, people who could match the domain.
An AI system for metallurgy whose output operators have to read in real time.
Our Solution
Hygge engineers worked across two of the client's product lines. The visible work was a rebuild of the monitoring interface around widgets. The live page became a set of composable widgets, quality plot tracks, event cards and a date picker for any period. Next to the features came the care an industrial product needs. A detail screen that failed to load the newest event on direct links was fixed. Zoom stopped leaking between plots of different widths. A local demo was adapted to run on newer Apple hardware.
Frontend engineers sourced, onboarded and run by Hygge inside the client's team.
How the Staff Augmentation Solves It
Each card answers one problem above.
A Live View Split Into Widgets
Plot tracks, event cards and widgets each carry one part of the stream.
New Views Without New Screens
A new analysis becomes a new widget, with no screen rewrite.
Zoom That Stays in Its Plot
Plots of different widths keep the same zoom without leaking into each other.
Engineers Onboarded Into the Team
Hygge placed the engineers in the client's own process and supported them there.
CVs Matched to the Product
Hygge sent profiles that fit the need, so the people could read the domain early.
What Hygge Built
Each element turns part of the AI's output into something a plant team can read while the process runs.
Composable Widgets
The live view is assembled from widgets, so new views are added without rewriting screens.
Quality Plot Tracks
Plots track quality over time, with zoom that behaves the same everywhere.
Event Cards
Cards show what happened in the furnace and when.
Period Selection
A date picker lets the team look back at any period.
Reliable Detail Views
A direct link to an event opens the newest data.
Demo on Current Hardware
The local demo runs on newer Apple machines.
What Runs Without Anyone Pressing a Button
While the furnace runs, the data moves on its own.
AI Watches the Furnace
The system recognises the materials present during metal production.
Analytics Stream In
Real-time results feed the monitoring interface.
Widgets Update
Plots, event cards and widgets show the latest results for the plant team.
What the Engagement Delivered
Recorded on the engagement and in the client's published review.
Of Embedded Frontend Work
Covered by Hygge Engineers
Client Rating on Clutch
Work Completed to Specification
The Services Behind Idletechs
Angular
TypeScript
RxJS
Angular Material
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.NET (C#)
PythonWe were very happy with Hygge Software's services and would choose them again.
CEO
Idletechs AS
How the Engagement Ran
Sourcing
Onboarding
Widget Rebuild
Hardening
Completion
Solutions Behind Idletechs
The Hygge solutions this build draws on.
Remote Monitoring Platform
Live furnace analytics on screens operators read while the process runs.
Business Intelligence & Reporting
Quality plots, event cards and period views built from composable widgets.
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