Taking the jump into the digital transformation of the manufacturing world can be a little intimidating, especially if you are unaware of the positives that can be achieved by adopting modern IIoT technologies. In this next article, we will address your fourth industrial revolution concerns and show you the positives that it brings to your manufacturing environment with the...

CNC machines cut away metal and make money, but they can’t do that if they’re not running. How do you know if they’re running? Managing By Walking About is one approach, machine monitoring is a better one. Machine monitoring shows how production equipment is being utilized at any moment in time. That knowledge can help reduce costs, improve profit...

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 use a performance issue as...

In our latest update we have expanded Expressions to allow group building; structured in an organized hierarchy. WHAT IS AN EXPRESSION? WHAT CAN IT MEASURE? An expression is a set of parameters that define what and how data will be collected, parsed and received from the shop floor to DataXchange. The following are just a handful of items that can be measured:...

There’s an old axiom that before you can improve something you need to measure it. In manufacturing there are many metrics that can be tracked. One of the most popular metrics is Overall Equipment Effectiveness, (OEE). Accurate and timely OEE information aids decision-making when managers are faced with rapidly changing circumstances on the factory floor, but only when the factory...