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Fast & Furious: Series C Boosts E-Bike Mobility

Sarah, a young professional, steps into the vibrant chaos of Bangalore. The heat and frenzied traffic leave her feeling overwhelmed as she embarks on a month-long assignment. However, she soon discovers a network of electric bike-sharing stations scattered throughout the city, offering a refreshing solution.

Curious, Sarah uses an app to unlock a sleek blue bike and effortlessly navigates the traffic. She realizes these bikes are part of a micro-mobility network, established in 2017 to address congestion and pollution. This company aims to redefine urban mobility in India with a focus on sustainability and convenience.

A Partnership for a Greener Future

To achieve their ambitious vision, the company partnered with Mantra Labs. Together, they developed a user-friendly mobile app designed to provide seamless, shared, and sustainable first-and-last-mile connectivity. This collaboration marked a significant milestone in transforming urban transportation in India.

Challenges and Solutions

The bike-sharing startup faced several challenges, such as developing intuitive mobile apps, providing real-time analytics, accurately predicting demand, and optimizing vehicle routing. To tackle these issues, they collaborated with Mantra Labs to build a scalable and flexible platform. This partnership resulted in the creation of six integrated solutions:

  1. Mobile Apps: The primary customer interface is essential for smooth operations.
  2. Fleet Management Software: Core operations tool for real-time tracking, demand-based rebalancing, and maintenance.
  3. Regressor Model: Critical for accurate demand prediction and efficient bike rebalancing.
  4. Data Exchange Hub: Facilitates data flow from various sources, though secondary to app and fleet management functionality.
  5. Billing Management System: Ensures accurate revenue collection, with less immediate impact compared to app or fleet issues.
  6. Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Provides valuable long-term customer insights, secondary to core rental operations.

Enhancing User Experience

The app includes a suite of features designed to enhance user experience. Users can book and track rides, report issues, and view equipment details. Personal health stats allow users to track calories burned, distance covered, and time spent while displaying carbon emissions saved. Additionally, a rewards system lets users earn points based on their activities.

Impressive Results

The integration of these solutions has led to remarkable outcomes. As of January 2024, the platform has facilitated over 80 million rides, achieved a 99.49% daily crash-free usage rate, and maintained an average of over 2 hours of active bike use daily. Demand forecasting accuracy stands at an impressive 98.7%, and the app has over 5 million installs with a 4.4 average user rating.

Driving Success

Key features contributing to the platform’s success include accurate demand forecasting, real-time fleet management, a user-centric mobile app, and a robust CRM system. These elements have ensured optimal bike availability, efficient distribution and maintenance, enhanced user experience, and boosted user retention and loyalty.

Conclusion

This bike-sharing startup’s journey from concept to a leading micro-mobility solution demonstrates how innovative technology and strategic partnerships can revolutionize urban transportation. By addressing challenges in demand prediction, real-time routing, and user experience, the company has alleviated urban congestion and set a new standard for future mobility services.

To learn more about the revolutionary approach to urban mobility, contact Mantra Labs.

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Smart Manufacturing Dashboards: A Real-Time Guide for Data-Driven Ops

Smart Manufacturing starts with real-time visibility.

Manufacturing companies today generate data by the second through sensors, machines, ERP systems, and MES platforms. But without real-time insights, even the most advanced production lines are essentially flying blind.

Manufacturers are implementing real-time dashboards that serve as control towers for their daily operations, enabling them to shift from reactive to proactive decision-making. These tools are essential to the evolution of Smart Manufacturing, where connected systems, automation, and intelligent analytics come together to drive measurable impact.

Data is available, but what’s missing is timely action.

For many plant leaders and COOs, one challenge persists: operational data is dispersed throughout systems, delayed, or hidden in spreadsheets. And this delay turns into a liability.

Real-time dashboards help uncover critical answers:

  • What caused downtime during last night’s shift?
  • Was there a delay in maintenance response?
  • Did a specific inventory threshold trigger a quality issue?

By converting raw inputs into real-time manufacturing analytics, dashboards make operational intelligence accessible to operators, supervisors, and leadership alike, enabling teams to anticipate problems rather than react to them.

1. Why Static Reports Fall Short

  • Reports often arrive late—after downtime, delays, or defects have occurred.
  • Disconnected data across ERP, MES, and sensors limits cross-functional insights.
  • Static formats lack embedded logic for proactive decision support.

2. What Real-Time Dashboards Enable

Line performance and downtime trends
Track OEE in real time and identify underperforming lines.

Predictive maintenance alerts
Utilize historical and sensor data to identify potential part failures in advance.

Inventory heat maps & reorder thresholds
Anticipate stockouts or overstocks based on dynamic reorder points.

Quality metrics linked to operator actions
Isolate shifts or procedures correlated with spikes in defects or rework.

These insights allow production teams to drive day-to-day operations in line with Smart Manufacturing principles.

3. Dashboards That Drive Action

Role-based dashboards
Dashboards can be configured for machine operators, shift supervisors, and plant managers, each with a tailored view of KPIs.

Embedded alerts and nudges
Real-time prompts, like “Line 4 below efficiency threshold for 15+ minutes,” reduce response times and minimize disruptions.

Cross-functional drill-downs
Teams can identify root causes more quickly because users can move from plant-wide overviews to detailed machine-level data in seconds.

4. What Powers These Dashboards

Data lakehouse integration
Unified access to ERP, MES, IoT sensor, and QA systems—ensuring reliable and timely manufacturing analytics.

ETL pipelines
Real-time data ingestion from high-frequency sources with minimal latency.

Visualization tools
Custom builds using Power BI, or customized solutions designed for frontline usability and operational impact.

Smart Manufacturing in Action: Reducing Market Response Time from 48 Hours to 30 Minutes

Mantra Labs partnered with a North American die-casting manufacturer to unify its operational data into a real-time dashboard. Fragmented data, manual reporting, delayed pricing decisions, and inconsistent data quality hindered operational efficiency and strategic decision-making.

Tech Enablement:

  • Centralized Data Hub with real-time access to critical business insights.
  • Automated report generation with data ingestion and processing.
  • Accurate price modeling with real-time visibility into metal price trends, cost impacts, and customer-specific pricing scenarios. 
  • Proactive market analysis with intuitive Power BI dashboards and reports.

Business Outcomes:

  • Faster response to machine alerts
  • Quality incidents traced to specific operator workflows
  • 4X faster access to insights led to improved inventory optimization.

As this case shows, real-time dashboards are not just operational tools—they’re strategic enablers. 

(Learn More: Powering the Future of Metal Manufacturing with Data Engineering)

Key Takeaways: Smart Manufacturing Dashboards at a Glance

AspectWhat You Should Know
1. Why Static Reports Fall ShortDelayed insights after issues occur
Disconnected systems (ERP, MES, sensors)
No real-time alerts or embedded decision logic
2. What Real-Time Dashboards EnableTrack OEE and downtime in real-time
Predictive maintenance using sensor data
Dynamic inventory heat maps
Quality linked to operators
3. Dashboards That Drive ActionRole-based views (operator to CEO)
Embedded alerts like “Line 4 down for 15+ mins”
Drilldowns from plant-level to machine-level
4. What Powers These DashboardsUnified Data Lakehouse (ERP + IoT + MES)
Real-time ETL pipelines
Power BI or custom dashboards built for frontline usability

Conclusion

Smart Manufacturing dashboards aren’t just analytics tools—they’re productivity engines. Dashboards that deliver real-time insight empower frontline teams to make faster, better decisions—whether it’s adjusting production schedules, triggering preventive maintenance, or responding to inventory fluctuations.

Explore how Mantra Labs can help you unlock operations intelligence that’s actually usable.

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