CNC machine monitoring system and capital cost
CNC: How a machine monitoring system reduces investment in new machines Increasing capacity – buy a machine or reduce downtime on existing... Read More
Machine monitoring
Machine downtime for trivial reasons
CNC – BIG Machine downtime can result from SMALL reasons, and ruin your ROI This is a real story from a shop floor that uses our LEANworks machine... Read More
OEE improvement – low hanging fruit
Reducing machine downtime – tackle the low hanging fruit first You have two types of machine downtime on the shop floor – the low hanging fruit... Read More
Production data on Andon boards
Stale data on Andon boards is as useless as stale bread The purpose of Andon boards is to display information to everyone on the shop floor... Read More
Reduce downtime, increase profits
As the number of machines on our shop floor increases, the darkness increases, and we stand there, wondering, fearing, doubting We have no idea of... Read More
Idle time reduction to increase profits
In most shop floors, idle time on machines can be up to 40 %, and people think this is normal Basically, these firms have bought a bunch of elephants... Read More