Initial diagnosis
The form provides an initial risk signal. It does not replace a complete technical evaluation.
Technical Capability Management
Build stronger technicians.Protect critical knowledge.Improve equipment performance.
ProFACTOR turns field technical knowledge into a structure that can be studied, practiced, evaluated, and demonstrated. In Flow Pack, the system starts with the technical manual and connects training, competencies, diagnostics, and plant coverage.
The knowledge of your most experienced technicians should not leave with them.
ProFACTOR helps manufacturing companies capture that knowledge, evaluate workforce capabilities, and develop the next generation of Flow Pack technicians using their own equipment, procedures, and field experience.
Built on 34 years of experience diagnosing packaging machinery in the field — across food, snacks, confectionery, and pharmaceutical operations throughout Latin America.
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Evaluate your equipment criticality and your team's knowledge
Add machines and personnel to get an initial knowledge-risk map. The system should then connect that risk with the technician's real competencies, evaluations, and evidence.
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Add your machines
Name or type in your critical machines.
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Add your personnel
How many technicians know them and when the most experienced expert is expected to leave.
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An initial risk indicator by machine. It does not replace a complete technical evaluation.
ProFACTOR risk
The complete version combines coverage + competency + evidence + criticality + succession.
How this indicator should evolve
The initial risk can use coverage + dependence on experts + departure horizon. The full evaluation should add competency level, equipment criticality, current evidence and successor readiness.
CoverageCompetencyEvidenceCriticalitySuccession
MachineTechnicians who know itExpert's expected departureKnowledge risk
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From technical manual to plant decision
The Flow Pack Manual feeds every step of the same cycle: it is captured and standardized in the manual, taught, evaluated, validated in the field, and improved with every new case.
- 1 Capture
- 2 Standardize
- 3 Train
- 4 Evaluate
- 5 Validate
- 6 Improve
This is the same cycle across the whole platform — it reappears, unchanged, in Solutions and in How it works.
The Flow Pack core
Three tools, one shared knowledge base
Practical Flow Pack Manual
Systems, diagnostics, maintenance, real cases and field tools.
Technical Competency Framework
42 competencies across 11 systems, with Basic, Intermediate and Expert levels.
Knowledge Audit
39 questions to understand conceptual knowledge and guide training.
What could ProFACTOR show you?
Pick a question. See the answer in a simulated Flow Pack plant.
Who can work on this Flow Pack sealing system?Open in the simulated example Who needs training on seal setup and diagnosis?Open in the simulated example What critical sealing knowledge could the plant lose?Open in the simulated example Who should be assigned to investigate this recurring seal defect?Open in the simulated example
What ProFACTOR does
Preserve Knowledge
Capture what your most experienced technicians know before it walks out the door, and turn it into knowledge your team can use.
Standardize the Work
Turn captured expertise into clear procedures so the same job is done the same correct way on every shift and at every site.
Build & Validate Capability
Develop technicians around real equipment and confirm competency by demonstration, not by attendance.
Simulated example
Simulated exampleFrom field experience to knowledge the plant can preserve
A senior sealing-system specialist knows how to bring cross-seal jaws back into spec after a format change. In ProFACTOR that experience does not stay in one head — it becomes six connected records tied to the machine, the subsystem and the technician.
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A documented procedure
Cross-seal jaw alignment and temperature verification, step by step.
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A setup standard
Temperature, pressure and dwell time ranges per film and format.
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A diagnostic guide
Seal-quality defects traced to jaw timing, film tension or registration.
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An evaluation criterion
Sets and verifies sealing-jaw temperature, pressure and dwell time.
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A training activity
Guided practice on the line with the criterion in hand.
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A demonstrable competency
Verified on the real machine and recorded as evidence.
See it with your own equipment in mind.
The sample plant and sample OEM below use realistic data. Nothing you do there touches a real system.