Floor hours evaporate
Cycle timing, workstation observation, throughput readings: most of the work happens standing in the plant, far from a screen. That night, the timesheet gets filled from memory, and every other site visit disappears.
Industrial engineering
Your engineers optimize the plant. CANOPE optimizes the engagement.
Time-and-motion studies, line relayouts, value-stream maps, commissioning. While your engineers are on the floor, CANOPE tracks the engagement and recovers every hour spent improving the client’s processes.
The realities of your field
Time-and-materials drifts in silence
A line relayout billed by the hour rarely blows through the budget all at once. It drifts: a safety constraint here, a late equipment delivery there. By the time the total crosses the estimate, the client has already stopped approving.
Knowledge lives in one head, not the engagement
The engineer who ran the ergonomic study knows why the station was moved. Six months later, on phase 2, nobody can find the measurements, the assumptions, or the frozen version of the report handed to the client.
CANOPE
CANOPE’s AI, in your field
Timesheets
CANOPE reconstructs the day from plant visits, emails, and open documents, then proposes the timesheet already split by engagement and phase — the engineer confirms instead of keying it in.
Projects
CANOPE ties every hour and expense to the right study in the engagement → sub-project → task hierarchy, with its budgets and dated rates, so real progress reads out without manual roll-ups.
Invoicing
CANOPE catches missed billable hours and prepares the time-and-materials or fixed-fee invoice, GST and QST included, freezing the document the moment it is produced so it never shifts after it reaches the client.
Dashboards
CANOPE predicts budget overruns before they happen and flags the gap between the engagement estimate and the real rate hours are burning, phase by phase.
Documents
CANOPE knows where the throughput readings, layout drawings, and study reports live, and attaches them to the engagement so the next phase starts from the right file.
A day with CANOPE
A day on a plant relayout
- 1
8 a.m. — The engineer spends the morning on the floor timing an assembly cell. CANOPE recognizes the client visit and builds the time entry on the right engagement.
- 2
1 p.m. — Back at the office, she sends the client three layout options. CANOPE attaches the email and the drawing to the phase 2 deliverable.
- 3
3 p.m. — CANOPE flags that the engagement’s time-and-materials has reached 80% of the approved estimate, two weeks earlier than planned. She requests a change order while the client is still receptive.
- 4
5 p.m. — The timesheet is already there: four hours of observation, one hour of reporting, split by phase. She confirms with one tap.
- 5
Weekend — CANOPE caught two billable hours missing from the month’s invoice. Nothing is lost.
Your engineers cut waste on the floor. CANOPE cuts it out of the engagement.