Factbird vs Hexagon Q-DAS

Factbird is a manufacturing intelligence suite that turns production data into operational insights and shop-floor workflows. Production Insights provides real-time and historical visibility, OEE analysis, downtime analytics, role-based views, and shift or batch scheduling. Connected Operations adds digital guidance, paperless quality checks, SOPs, checklists, execution flows, e-signatures, audit trails, and preventive maintenance. Knowledge Excellence includes learning management, a skills matrix, training tools, learner notifications, and PDCA action plans. Production data can come from Factbird Industrial IoT devices or directly from PLCs; the software presents live graphs, stop-cause reporting, and OEE monitoring. Connectivity includes MQTT, OPC UA (Kepware), a GraphQL API, and webhooks, with Power BI, Tableau, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 named as integration examples. Factbird says data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with SSO, MFA, and an enterprise private-cloud option. Its apps require the Factbird platform. There is no dedicated iOS or Android app, though users can add the web app to a phone home screen. The company is based in Copenhagen and says it has helped manufacturers since 2016.

Hexagon Q-DAS is software for statistical process control and manufacturing analytics. It supports quality assurance, capability evaluation, and process control for quality managers, quality engineers, measurement-equipment staff, operators, and process engineers. Its Analysis Solution reports findings from test-process investigations, machine acceptance, and measurement-system analyses. O-QIS displays and evaluates inspection and process data through a web product. Data can be entered manually or transferred from measuring equipment over RS232 or USB. O-QIS checks measurements against alarm conditions and sends reports by printout, PDF, email, or SMS. Documented integrations include SAP QM-STI for measured values and ETQ Quality Management System for nonconformance reports after quality alarms. REST APIs exchange data using HTTPS, authentication, and authorization. qs-STAT supports evaluations to ISO 22514-2. Windows and web releases are listed for 2026.2, with API access also available.