Porcelio
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Who it's for

Built for the people who run the plant

From the plant director weighing downgrades and energy to the kiln master and the process engineer, Porcelio speaks each audience's language, and answers with proof.

Audiences

Three audiences, one platform

Porcelio's value shows up differently for each stakeholder, and it's built to satisfy all three.

Executives

COOs and plant GMs weighing downgrades, energy, yield, and ROI want measurable value and a clear expansion path.

Champions

Kiln masters, technologists, and line supervisors want autonomous firing, glazing, and sorting that relieves the craft-labor crunch.

Technical

Process, automation, and plant-IT engineers want architecture, grounding, bounds, and integration they can trust.

The stakes

Where the margin is won or lost

Downgrades and breakage from cracks and warpage destroy margin. Energy is a dominant cost under decarbonization pressure. Tone and caliber sorting is a massive manual burden. And the craft that governs quality is scarce and aging. Porcelio attacks all four at once.

  • Downgrades & breakageFewer off-caliber, off-shade, cracked, and warped pieces.
  • Energy & carbonLower kiln and dryer energy per square meter.
  • Manual sortingRobotic tone and caliber sorting at line speed.
  • Craft continuityThe kiln master's judgment, encoded and always on.
TONE & CALIBER GRADINGVITREO
V0 · on-toneV1V2 · downgrade
Caliber deviation+0.18 mm
Planarity0.4 mm/m
Fired-defect risk1.2%
Pieces graded / min420
The opportunity

A category under pressure

$22B process automation, control, and inspection market
13% annual growth in autonomous ceramics segments
$5.5B serviceable market Porcelio addresses
$320M obtainable within three years
“Every leader in this plant was measured on a different number. Porcelio was the first thing that moved all of them.”
GM
Plant General ManagerIntegrated tile producer (illustrative)
Outcomes

What good looks like

The proof points a plant running on Porcelio can point to.

Grounded outputs

Auditable decisions technologists and quality managers trust.

Measurable ROI

Hard metrics on downgrades, energy, and yield, proven per workflow.

Control & assurance

Every piece perceived and controlled, root cause always linked.

Questions

Answers for plant leaders

We're not fully automated yet, is Porcelio still for us?
Yes. Most plants start on one workflow alongside existing controls and manual steps, then expand as autonomy proves out.
How do you satisfy skeptical kiln masters?
By encoding and augmenting their judgment, not replacing it, and by citing the evidence behind every setpoint so they can trust and correct it.
What proof do executives get?
A hard downgrade, energy, or yield metric agreed up front and measured under real production, with a clear kiln-by-kiln expansion path.
How you evaluate

A path built for skeptics

Every audience gets to prove it their own way.

See your loss

We map where downgrades, energy, and yield leak on your line.

Agree a metric

Executives and engineers set the number that defines success.

Run a paid pilot

Champions watch autonomy run on one real line under production.

Expand on proof

Hit the metric, then grow kiln by kiln with the trail to back it.

Fits your team's world

Speaks to operations, quality, and IT

Porcelio works with the equipment, controls, and data systems each stakeholder already owns.

Kiln & press OEMs

Roller kilnsTunnel kilnsHydraulic pressesExtruders

Glaze & decoration

Glaze linesDigital decorationEngobe applicationRobotic cells

Inspection & data

Profile scannersSCADA / PLCMESHistorian

Ceramics groups

Multi-siteR&D labsSustainabilityQuality
The common number
One metric

that moves every stakeholder

Downgrades, energy, and yield roll up to margin, the number every audience in the plant is measured against.

Bring your team

Whether you lead operations, quality, or engineering, we'll show how Porcelio answers your number.