Despite all of the innovation and change in the industry, manufacturers are running blind to the greatest sources of value and variability inside the factory due to manual activities. There’s no easy or accurate way to capture data that represents these actions. Drishti Technologies, a company backed by marquee investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Emergence Capital, is addressing this problem.

       Its technology is focused on humans so as to make a true digital transformation in the manufacturing world. It does this by making manual processes visible to factory analytics. The idea ...