CANDELA: Building the Future of Marine Mobility with AVIX
An AVIX Customer Story with Jon-Anders, Director of the Manufacturing Engineering department, and Luis Pereira, Manufacturing Engineer at Candela
Candela, the Swedish company redefining marine transport with electric hydrofoiling boats, is no stranger to innovation. Following the growing interest in their new line of public transport ferries, the company is now ramping up. With increasing demand and expanding production goals, they are laying the groundwork for a smart and scalable future where AVIX plays a key role in enabling efficiency from the very start.
Candela chose to integrate AVIX early in the process, while still working to organize themselves in a cross-functional context. The goal with AVIX was never to put out fires, but to build a structured, data-driven foundation for sustainable growth.
“We didn’t get AVIX to fix problems,” says Luis, Manufacturing Engineer at Candela. “We wanted to understand our current situation and define how we work. The idea was to build from there and continuously improve.”
This early-stage approach allows Candela to analyze, organize, and balance its processes step by step with increasing precision. Even though Candela is not operating at a mass-production scale, their mindset is aligned with high-efficiency production principles. With AVIX, they can achieve steady production comparable to mass-production companies. Their takt time may be measured in days, but improvements are made by analyzing the seconds. Jon-Anders, Director of the Manufacturing Engineering Department, emphasizes the power of AVIX in all types of production.
“Even if your long-term strategy is to remain a small- to medium-volume producer, you can still gain significant benefits from using AVIX. Whether your takt time is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, or even weeks, you still need to balance work across stations to ensure good material handling. Most companies today, regardless of whether they’re high- or low-volume producers, operate with some form of takt-based line, and regardless of takt time, it’s still essential to capture and understand each work element. Even if your takt time spans weeks or months, you need insight into what happens in every minute, or even every second, of that process.”
Luis recalls the benchmark they had before implementing AVIX, and comparing that to today’s benchmark, the improvements are clear. The software has helped, and continues to help, the team define their processes and organize their way of working. While AVIX hasn’t reshaped their resource planning routines yet, Luis sees that shift coming as production expands. With growing volumes and new facilities on the horizon, the insights from AVIX will help them define the manpower needed to meet their target times.
The main win for Candela with AVIX has been gaining a clearer understanding of their processes, enabling improvement and supporting their upscaling efforts. But beyond process definitions and improvements, one of the biggest gains has been the mindset shift. In the beginning, there was some hesitation around new tools and filming processes on the shop floor. But that quickly changed as the production team saw the value. Having the team understand the purpose of their work has contributed to a stronger commitment to improving and optimizing their performance.
When asked what advice they would give to other companies starting out with AVIX, Luis emphasizes the importance of simplicity and structure in the early stages:
“I would just say to start as simply as possible. Do not go straight into the details in the beginning, especially if you’re not already a mass production company that has everything more or less defined. So I would advise just taking it slow. Start with a more generic flow and process. And then once you have that stabilized, you can go into the details. Mainly because if you start with the details and try to be as detailed as you can, you will get lost in the details. And then you will start losing the big picture.”
Candela’s strategic approach in using AVIX highlights their commitment to building a production culture where knowledge, clarity, and collaboration are at the core. With a foundation built on facts rather than assumptions, they are not only scaling production, but also scaling confidence in how they do it.
