Manufacturers: Your Next Smart Product Might Already Exist

Kevin Lofgren - Chief Revenue Officer

July 22, 2025

A man controls a robot manufacturing a product with smart product integration in a factory.

You don’t need another whiteboard session.

If you’ve been talking in the boardroom about launching a connected product, you’re not alone. Everyone’s trying to future-proof. But while your team debates platforms, protocols, and build-vs-buy, there’s something you might be missing.

The opportunity isn’t inventing something new. Smart product integration adds new value to what you’re already putting in boxes and shipping out the door.

You build the product. We build the smarts.

At ObjectSpectrum, we partner with manufacturers to embed intelligence into existing products, creating smart product integration without requiring a hardware redesign or an IoT team the size of your sales department.

Our Prism platform delivers:

  • Speed to market – Think months, not years.
  • Reduced risk – We’ve done this before (a lot).
  • Higher quality – Field-tested, secure, and built for scale.

You bring the thing that plugs in, pumps out, turns on, or cools down.

We bring the code, connectivity, and cloud infrastructure to make it talk.

A row of blue and yellow robots are an example of a smart product integration.

It’s not about dashboards. It’s about dollars.

Sure, your ops team wants data. But your customers do too.

Smart products don’t just help you track usage, failures, and reorders. They create:

  • Recurring revenue through refills, consumables, subscriptions
  • Stickier customers who rely on your platform, not just your hardware
  • Premium positioning in a market full of dumb devices

Whether it’s equipment in a warehouse, a system in a commercial kitchen, or a tool with a proprietary filter, intelligence drives margin.

The boardroom already wants this.

You’ve probably already discussed:

  • “We need a smart version of this.”
  • “Should we hire a dev team or partner?”
  • “Is this too risky to launch?”

Spoiler: You don’t need to wait, staff up, or start from scratch.

We’ve helped companies bring connected products to market faster, safer, and more profitably – by using what they already build as the foundation. And we do it right here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas. DFW, for you local folks.

Boxes filled with products manufactured with smart product integration sit on a table.

Start with what you already make.

We’re not trying to sell you a platform you don’t need. We’re trying to show you how to get more from what you already sell.

If your product:

  • Is used over time
  • Could report usage, status, or faults
  • Has consumables, service, or upgrade potential

Then it’s a perfect candidate for smart integration.

And if you’re reading this thinking, “yeah, this sounds like the conversation we had last quarter,” that’s because it is.

Let’s take it out of the boardroom and into the field.

Want to see how this works?

You can check out the landing page here, or better yet, just reach out.

We’ll show you how other manufacturers have already done it, what kind of revenue they unlocked, and how it could apply to your product line.

You don’t need a new product. You need a smarter one.