When a machine stops,
know why in minutes — not hours.
Built for OEM machine builders — every controller, PC, and subsystem on one timeline, so your engineers stop reconstructing failures by hand.
When a machine stops, the guessing begins
The data that explains the failure already exists — scattered across the PLC, the PC, and every subsystem, in different files and formats. Bringing it together, fast, is the hard part.
Production is down, and the customer is counting every minute.
A service engineer on-site is guessing over the phone with the office.
Your best engineers are pulled off the roadmap to firefight.
The root cause is buried in data you already have — you just can't see it.
The bottleneck was never a lack of logs. It's that no tool shows you what happened across the whole machine, in order, in one place.
Scattered logs become one clear story
Next-Trace turns the data your machine already produces into a single, ordered account of what went wrong.
Point it at your logs
Load the logs your machine already produces — PLC, PC, every subsystem. No integration project, no agents, no server.
It correlates everything
Next-Trace aligns events from every system on one timeline and links cause to effect — automatically.
See what actually happened
Read the exact sequence that led to the stop, and find root cause in minutes instead of an afternoon.
It's not a log viewer. It's the diagnosis your logs were never able to give you.
What your team actually gets
We don't sell software. We sell the engineering time your team gets back.
Hours turned into minutes
Root-cause analysis that used to eat a morning happens before the coffee is cold.
Less downtime
Faster answers mean machines come back online faster — for you and for your customers.
Seniors back on the roadmap
Stop burning your best engineers firefighting the same failures over and over.
Answers in the field
Service engineers diagnose on-site instead of phoning home to guess together.
Knowledge that stays
Every diagnosis is reproducible — not locked inside one veteran engineer's head.
More maintainable software
See how your machine actually behaves in the field, and feed it straight back into development.
How Next-Trace finds root cause
Every capability exists to answer one question faster: what happened before the machine stopped?
Unified Timeline
PLC, PC, and subsystem events on one synchronized timeline — see cause and effect in seconds instead of stitching files together by hand.
Variable Analysis
Watch a PLC variable drift in the seconds before a fault — so you catch the intermittent failures that cost the most.
State Transitions
See exactly which state the machine was in when it stopped — diagnose sequence faults without stepping through live code.
Bitmask Decoding
Raw status words decoded into the conditions they actually represent — no manual bit-math under pressure.
Built for OEM machine builders — not IT departments
Next-Trace does one thing — machine diagnostics — and does it better than anything built for servers.
This is for you if:
- You develop your own machine software
- You commission machines at customer sites worldwide
- You run a team debugging and maintaining that software
- Your service engineers diagnose failures in the field
- You lose real engineering hours — and real money — to debugging
You'll get the most value if you're a:
Not a fit for general-purpose IT log monitoring or cloud observability suites. If your problem is machines that stop and nobody knows why, you're in the right place.
Built for sensitive industrial environments
100% local processing, perfect for secure industrial environments, like the semiconductor industry.
Complete Data Privacy
Your log files never leave your machine. No cloud uploads, no external servers, no data transmission. Process sensitive data with confidence.
No Network Required
Works completely offline. Perfect for air-gapped environments and secure facilities where network access is restricted.
Input Validation
All file uploads are validated to meet the required specific format.
Single Executable
No installation required. Just one .exe file that you can run from anywhere.
The objections we hear most
Fair questions. Here's the honest answer to each.
Exactly — the data isn't the problem. The problem is that no one can correlate it fast enough to matter. Next-Trace doesn't give you more logs; it gives you the answer hidden inside the ones you already have.
Those are built for IT infrastructure — servers, networks, the cloud — and assume connectivity and a consistent format. Machine logs are the opposite: offline, air-gapped, spread across PLCs and PCs that never agree on time or format. Next-Trace is built for that reality, and for the one thing those tools can't do well — correlating a mechanical failure across controllers.
One controller's event log tells you what that controller saw. It can't tell you what the vision system, the drive, and the PC were doing at the same instant. Root cause almost always lives in the correlation between systems — which is precisely what a single-controller log can't show.
Most of our customers had one too. The question is what it costs you: who maintains it, who onboards new engineers onto it, and how much roadmap time it quietly eats. Next-Trace is maintained, supported, and works out of the box — so your engineers build machines, not tooling.
There's nothing to implement. It's a single executable that reads the logs your machines already produce — no server, no install, no integration project. Most teams are diagnosing a real failure within the first hour of the demo.
See Next-Trace reconstruct a machine failure
In a 30-minute walkthrough, we'll show you how Next-Trace pieces together what happened across every system on one timeline — and how much faster your next root-cause analysis could be. No commitment.
Typically a 30-minute call. No preparation needed.