What Is Lights Out Manufacturing? Have you ever heard the old industry joke that the factories of the future will be automated to the point that they will only have two employees? A dog to guard the factory and a human to feed it. So, what is Lights Out Manufacturing exactly? Quite simply, Lights Out Manufacturing is creating automation...
Why Manufacturing Companies Should Be Investing in Digital Transformation At Scytec, we believe in changing the current culture of the CNC manufacturing world by managing principles of fact and letting your machines not yet utilized data work for you. As the world moves further into the modernization of shop floor performance a question remains. After evaluating the digital and...
The long-anticipated International Manufacturing Technology Show, IMTS, has unfortunately been cancelled due to Covid-19. The announcement came last week. The cancellation, while predictable, was still a huge disappointment for us. We will not be able to engage in person with current and future customers, which we always look forward to. The show always brings together the best and brightest in...
To start with, everyone here at Scytec would like to wish all of our customers a happy New Year. As we step into the new decade we wanted to share a little information about some upcoming plans for 2020 and our roadmap for the Scytec DataXchange machine monitoring service, as well as the upcoming trends in machine monitoring and...
As the year comes to a close, we want to take a minute to thank all our customers for a great 2019 and reflect back on some of the events that took place within DataXchange and for Scytec in general. DataXchange had multiple updates throughout the year as well as the addition of the dedicated ERP integration module. The biggest change...
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 providing accurate machine and shop...
