Enterprise Resource Planning solutions or ERP is a system to manage day-to-day business activities such as accounting, purchasing, planning, scheduling, and much more. ERP is not new to business or manufacturing. What is innovative is that we integrate the data from ERP systems with machine monitoring extending ERP data to the shop floor, as well as… Read more »
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a great metric and can provide a lot of value, but OEE has shortcomings and limitations that can be addressed by a modern monitoring system. OEE shouldn’t be avoided but diving directly into OEE is not always the best solution to maximize value from a shop floor machine monitoring system. Let’s… Read more »
IIoT, or the Industrial Internet of Things is a very common phrase in this Industry 4.0 world. First, let’s look at the definition of the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things is simply devices connected to the Internet that have the ability to send or exchange data. The reason for the popularity of IoT… Read more »
The need to identify and eliminate unplanned machine downtime is somewhat obvious, however, what is really a planned vs an unplanned downtime is something that is not always so obvious. In addition, planned downtime seems to be more accepted as something that just must happen as the cost of doing business. While true to an… Read more »
it’s time for Machine Monitoring Software In most manufacturing facilities today convincing management that the company should invest in machine monitoring isn’t an issue. However, if you find yourself in such an environment there are many convincing reasons for management to adopt Industry 4.0 technology such as machine monitoring. Visibility to be able to… Read more »
Following a few basic principles can help shops get a return on their machine monitoring systems without losing faith first. Machine monitoring technology can be easy to justify, but shops can lose faith when data-driven efficiencies never materialize. Josh Davids, CEO of monitoring system developer Scytec, says many of these shops move too fast and… Read more »
