Next-Trace
Why we built the diagnostics platform OEM machine builders rely on to find root cause faster.
Born from Real Frustration
Next-Trace started with an engineer who spent hours manually piecing together thousands of log entries from different systems, trying to work out why a machine had stopped.
Nothing on the market did what machine builders actually needed — correlate events across controllers and PCs, work offline inside secure customer sites, and handle industrial-scale logs without a heavy setup.
We knew there had to be a faster way to find root cause — so we built it.
The year Next-Trace was conceived, built by engineers who understood the problem firsthand.
When a Machine Stops, Nobody Knows Why
When a machine goes down at a customer site, the data explaining why is already there — scattered across the PLC, the PC, and every subsystem, in different files and formats. General-purpose log tools were never built to bring it together.
So your engineers reconstruct the failure by hand, line by line, while production sits idle and the customer counts the minutes. Root cause that should take minutes takes hours.
Every hour spent debugging is an hour your team isn't building machines — and downtime your customer never forgets.
Simple by Design
We believe the best tools are the ones that disappear. You shouldn't be fighting your diagnostics tool — you should be focused on the failure you're trying to understand.
That's why Next-Trace is a single executable. No databases to configure. No services to manage. No accounts to create. Nothing to install on a locked-down customer machine. Run it, and start diagnosing.
We stripped away everything that wasn't essential and optimized what remained. The result stays instant, even across massive, multi-system logs.
Our design priorities, visualized.
By Engineers, For Engineers
We didn't build Next-Trace in an ivory tower. It was forged in the same high-pressure environments your teams work in — commissioning and supporting machines where every minute of downtime means lost production.
Every feature exists because an engineer debugging a real machine needed it. Every optimization came from real-world use.
When you use Next-Trace, you're using a tool shaped by thousands of hours of real machine debugging.