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Daedalus · By Athenite

It doesn't just check your layout.
It finds one.

Daedalus is an AI-powered factory layout designer and manufacturing simulator. Give it a site, a catalog, a target, and a budget. It decides what to buy, where it goes, and how it connects, then runs the design to see if it holds.

Try it

This plant was designed by Daedalus, start to finish.

Nothing here was drawn by hand. Daedalus was given a floor plan, a catalog, a target, and a budget. It chose every machine, placed each one, and routed every conveyor, then ran the plant for a simulated week to prove the design holds.

Daedalus showing a finished plant design in its 2.5D view: a dozen machines placed on the floor, conveyors routed between them and around the building's columns.

Live Every machine, position, and conveyor here was Daedalus's own decision. Look around: pan and zoom, fold it into 2.5D, read the findings, watch it run. Changing the plant is left to the full version of Daedalus. Open it full size

A universal optimizer

Daedalus can optimize anything, for anyone.

Greenfield

You're building a new plant

A plant layout from a blank slab: what to buy, where it goes, and proof it will hit the number, before the concrete is poured.

Brownfield

You want to rearrange an existing factory

The machines you already own stay in the picture, and every move in the new factory layout has to pay for itself.

Automation

You're deciding what to automate

Which stations first, what each step saves in labor and throughput, and how fast it pays back.

Warehouses

You run a warehouse or distribution floor

Docks, storage, shipping bays, and forklifts, designed as one material-handling flow.

Multi-story

Your plant has more than one floor

What belongs on the mezzanine, what the lift costs, and what the slab can carry.

Campus

You're laying out a whole site

Where each building goes, and how trucks and material move between them.

Hygiene

You make food, pharma, or chemicals

Allergens, ingredients, or solvents that must stay apart are kept apart by the layout itself.

Mixed lines

You make several products on one line

Changeovers and shared machines, planned so they stop eating your capacity.

Tell us which one you are

How it works

From floor plan to verdict.

I

Describe the site

Your real building, from its floor plan: walls, columns, docks, floors. The machines you could buy, with what they cost and how they behave. Material handling: conveyors, forklifts, AGVs, people. What you need to make, and what you can spend.

II

Daedalus decides

Which machines to buy. Where each one stands, which way it faces, which floor it is on. Where the conveyors run. How much buffer, how many trucks, how many people.

III

Daedalus validates

It runs the finished plant for a simulated week, breakdowns and all, and gives a plain verdict:

Meets target Too close to call Falls short
DESCRIBE DECIDE VALIDATE VERDICT SHORTFALLS FEED BACK

The standard

As optimal as the math allows.

Daedalus doesn't guess. Its AI-driven search covers millions of plant layouts, keeps the ones that hold, and puts the finalists through a simulated week of production, breakdowns and all. It is built on the best published research in facility layout and manufacturing simulation, and every method inside it earned its place by measurement.

Stated plainly

Where the model ends, your judgment begins.

Daedalus's numbers come from a model, and it never pretends otherwise. It does not schedule your production, certify compliance, or replace a structural engineer. It tells you when to call one. What it gives you is a design you can defend, and the evidence behind it. The decision stays with you.

Begin

Bring us a floor plan.

We'll bring you the best of a million layouts.