About B3

Founded in 2012 in Toronto, Ontario, B3 Systems provides an AI-driven data platform that helps manufacturers make smarter, faster decisions. We combine deep industry experience with a modern approach to data and AI integration.
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What we do

From Data Chaos to a Single Source of Truth

We deliver a fully integrated data platform and a hands-on team for manufacturers. We connect every machine and system into one platform and guide you through Integration → Information → Intelligence. We own the onboarding so you see results in weeks, not years. As your all-in-one tech partner, we handle integrations, support, and continuous improvement—so you don’t juggle vendors.

B3 pairs software with a seasoned team who’ve shipped in automotive, steel, wood products, pulp & paper, CPG, packaging, mining, and more. No shelfware, just measurable wins.

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Our Story

Built on the factory floor

B3 was founded in 2012 by Chris Graham in Toronto, Ontario, after years of seeing plants struggle with historians, spreadsheets, and one-off reports that didn’t match what people saw on the line.

In the early days, a decade ago, the work was highly iterative: standing with operators, controls engineers, IT, and business teams in mills and plants, wiring up small improvements, watching how they were used, and then refining them again and again.

Many of those early projects were built with a core group of engineers and University of Toronto alumni who preferred being on site to sitting in a boardroom. That loop between the factory floor and the product is still how we build the B3 platform and AI agents today as the team continues to grow across disciplines and industries.

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How B3 is implemented across industries.

auto
Automotive

Real-time downtime visibility

Unified data from PLCs, MES, and CMMS to surface top loss drivers and accelerate corrective actions.

• Line-level OEE in one view
• Alerts to maintenance & ops

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sawmill
Wood Products

Vision + quality insights

Connected vision systems and saw parameters to trace quality issues back to blade wear and settings.

• Defect tagging to root cause
• Guided maintenance actions

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steel
Steel

From historian to decisions

Standardized historian tags across lines for consistent KPIs, exception reporting, and AI agent automation.

• One model, many plants
• Faster engineering cycles

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paper
Pulp & Paper

Consistency from reel to reel

Normalize tags and grades, track sheet breaks and energy KPIs, and close the loop with guided actions.

• Grade-aware dashboards
• Break cause analytics

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supply
Mining

Refinery data to decisions

We work with refineries to integrate process control, LIMS, and energy data to pinpoint recovery losses and energy-intensity drivers across circuits.

• Recovery & energy per tonne
• Exception-based operator guidance

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food
CPG

Yield & changeover insights

Correlate SKU, line, and crew data to reduce waste, shorten changeovers, and improve first-pass quality.

• Waste & giveaway tracking
• FPY uplift with agents

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oil
Oil & Gas

Energy & uptime optimisation

Unify process control, maintenance, and energy data to cut flaring, reduce unplanned downtime, and track unit health.

• Exception-based monitoring
• Energy per barrel KPIs

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packaging
Packaging

Waste, speed, and changeovers

Connect PLCs, vision systems, and ERP demand to balance lines, reduce scrap, and accelerate changeovers.

• Scrap & giveaway tracking
• Crew & SKU insights

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How we work

What B3 stands for

B3 is short for Business Integration, Business Information, and Business Intelligence. It’s the way we think about every project: connect systems, turn data into shared context, and then layer on AI and automation where it actually helps.

Business Integration

We connect PLCs, historians, MES, ERP, and spreadsheets into one platform. That means fewer silos, cleaner hand-offs between teams, and a single place to trace issues across machines, lines, and plants.

Business Information

Once the data is integrated, we standardise tags and models so everyone sees the same story. Operators, engineers, and leaders get clear KPIs, investigations, and alerts built around how your factory actually runs.

Business Intelligence

With clean, trusted information in place, we add AI agents and advanced analytics to spot patterns, surface opportunities, and support decisions in real time. Intelligence on top of solid foundations, not the other way around.

Read the B3 Blog

Practical, no-fluff guidance for manufacturers—best practices in digital transformation and continuous improvement, grounded in real factory work. We share playbooks, frameworks, and lessons learned from our team of engineers so you can move from data to decisions faster.

Visit blog.runb3.com