Built for injection molding floors
Wren turns your plant's own manuals into machine-specific answers. Scan the QR tag on the press, photograph the fault, and get the documented fix — in seconds, not shift handovers.
No card required · Early access opens with 25 plants
Machine identified · 1.4s
Press 07 — 220t toggle clamp
Mold: 4-cav enclosure · Resin: PP copolymer
Photo diagnosis · short shot, cavity 3
Interface preview · sample data
Illustrative design targets for the Wren pilot programme — not audited customer results.
The problem
An idle press burns money by the minute — scrap resin, missed ship dates, and a crew standing around a machine nobody can diagnose. The information needed to restart it almost always exists. It's just not where the technician is standing.
The press is down, the binder is in the maintenance office, and the one person who knows this machine is on second shift. Every minute of searching is scrap, missed schedule and idle labour.
The OEM manual describes a base model. Your press has a retrofit controller, a custom hot runner and three engineering changes nobody wrote down — except in a folder on a shared drive.
Your most experienced technicians carry the real troubleshooting tree in their heads. When they retire or move plants, the fix time for every recurring fault quietly doubles.
How it works
Wren is designed for the first ten minutes of a stoppage — the window where a plant either recovers the shift or loses it.
Print a weatherproof Wren tag for every machine and fix it to the operator panel. The tag links to that exact asset — model, serial, controller revision, mold history and the manuals that actually apply to it.
Setup: ~4 minutes per machine
A technician scans the tag with a phone and photographs what they are looking at — a short shot, a flash line, a burn mark, an alarm on the controller screen. No fault codes to type, no login on a shared terminal.
Works with gloves on, works offline
Wren returns ranked probable causes, each one linked to the exact page of your manual or SOP that covers it — then records what actually worked so the next technician starts where this one finished.
Every answer cites your own documentation
At the panel · not at a deskDesigned for the floor
Technicians don't stop mid-fault to open a laptop. Wren is one scan deep: large touch targets, high-contrast type readable under plant lighting, and a cached copy of every manual for the machines on your floor so a weak signal in the back bay doesn't block a repair.
What's inside
Upload OEM manuals, retrofit addenda, mold books and your own SOPs. Wren indexes them per machine and answers only from documents your plant owns, with the page reference attached.
One durable tag turns any press into a scannable asset: model, tonnage, controller revision, installed options and the fault history logged against it.
Photograph the defect or the alarm screen. Wren matches what it sees against your documented fault library and ranks the probable causes rather than returning a wall of search results.
Short shots, flash, sink marks, tie-bar alarms, screw recovery faults, hot runner zone failures — modelled as real troubleshooting trees for this equipment class, not generic asset templates.
Manuals and fault trees for the machines on your floor are cached on the device. Back bays, basements and metal-clad buildings stay covered; scans sync when the phone reconnects.
Every resolved fault is captured as a short structured note against the machine, so the incoming shift sees what was tried, what worked, and what to watch on the next run.
One vertical, on purpose
A platform that covers every asset class covers none of them deeply. Wren goes the other way: one equipment class, modelled properly — clamp systems, injection units, hot runners, dryers and chillers on the same line — so the guidance a technician gets is specific enough to act on without interpretation.
Next equipment classes are chosen by our design partners — not by a roadmap committee.
Where Wren fits
The tools your plant already runs are built for planning, compliance and fleet-wide visibility. None of them are built to stand next to a 220-tonne press at 2am and tell a technician what to check first. That gap is the whole product.
e.g. Augmentir
Digitising work instructions, skills and training across every asset and role in the plant.
Broad by design · plant-wide rollout
e.g. UpKeep
The system of record for work orders, preventive maintenance schedules, parts and asset cost.
Maintenance planning · work-order centred
e.g. Fiix, part of Rockwell Automation
Asset reliability, integrations and analytics across many plants and large mixed fleets.
Fleet scale · reliability programmes
Injection molding, first
Category descriptions are our own summary of how these products are positioned. Wren is built to sit alongside them — it is not a CMMS and does not replace your system of record.
Voices from the floor
Placeholder quotes — Wren is pre-launch. These are illustrative examples with fictional names and plants, not real customers.
Half my job used to be finding out which revision of the machine I was standing in front of. The tag answers that before I put my gloves back on.
We photographed a burn mark, got three ranked causes and the exact page of our own hot runner manual. The press was making good parts again before the shift meeting ended.
The value isn't the search. It's that a second-year tech now starts a diagnosis in the same place my best 20-year tech would.
Pricing
One seat per technician who uses Wren on the floor. Machines, tags and scans are never metered — the cost of an idle press is the only meter that matters.
1 – 9 seats
$89
per technician / month
For a single plant getting its first machines tagged and its manuals in one place.
10 – 49 seats · volume discount applied
$75
per technician / month
For a full maintenance crew running molding around the clock.
50+ seats
Custom
volume pricing across sites
For multi-plant groups standardising troubleshooting across every molding floor.
The arithmetic
At an illustrative $200 per minute of stopped press, one 30-minute stoppage avoided covers 67 technician seats for a month.
Example calculation only, using a placeholder downtime rate — substitute your own figure. Billed monthly per active seat. Annual billing available. No metering on machines, tags or scans.
Questions
Still need something specific about your floor, your controllers or your documentation? Add it to the note field when you join the waitlist and we'll cover it in the first call.
Injection molding presses and the auxiliaries on the same line — dryers, chillers, conveyors and take-out robots. Wren is deliberately deep rather than wide: we model one equipment class properly before adding the next, and the next class is chosen with our design partners.
Early access
We're onboarding 25 molding plants as design partners. You bring the presses and the manuals; we bring the tags, the fault library and a technician-first app your crew will actually open.