Take a walk down any supermarket aisle and you'll find a product that has been produced using technology from a Melbourne company that is helping make Australian manufacturers smarter.

In fact, the company – Operation Feedback Systems, or OFS – thinks its software has helped produce almost all products stocked by the big retailers, if you count their packaging.

The digital factory has arrived. Operation Feedback Systems sales director James Magee with the company's monitoring technology. Credit:Pat Scala

OFS began in 1998, targeting the packaging industry with Visy as one of its biggest customers. But it has only been in the past five years that it has been able to double its growth annually and secure big customers, which include Asahi Beverages, Dulux Group and Coca-Cola Amatil.

"The industry [is] starting to realise that in five years … no forward thinking manufacturer will be operating the way they are now," OFS's Asia Pacific sales director James Magee said.