About
About Open Factory
The research desk for the people who sign purchase orders for factories and datacenters.
We cover the physical layer: transformers, switchgear, gensets and turbines, chillers and liquid cooling, machine tools, robots, drives and controls, and the grid connections and tariffs that gate all of it. We publish what things cost, how long they take to arrive, who is late, who discloses, and what to write into the purchase order.
Most of the charts come from our own models: the Lead-Time Monitor, the Public Bid-Tab Price Book, the Large-Load Cost Table, the Datacenter MEP Cost Table, the OEM Disclosure Scorecard and the Book-to-Bill League Table. The model pages say what each one is compiled from and which version it is. Version 0.x means public records and published methodology, with no proprietary survey yet.
How the work is done
Articles start from public records: filings, tariffs, dockets, procurement awards, agency series, OEM bulletins. Each number links to the document it came from. Models are built from those records first and from contributed data second, under the cell-size rules on the methodology page. Companies that are rated or criticised see the text before it runs. Every forward-looking call we make is listed and later scored on the Record.
Where to find us
Monthly letter on the subscribe page. Corrections to corrections@open-factory.com. Everything else to hello@open-factory.com.