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MachineMetrics App Framework: Custom Insights without the...

Legacy MES systems and basic monitoring tools are often rigid and slow to adapt. While they claim to offer broad functionality, they’re rarely configured to reflect the nuances of your operations -
MachineMetrics / Jun 25, 2025

Real-Time Visibility with the Production Order Dashboard

There’s no shortage of data on the modern shop floor. The problem is getting the right information to the right people - with the right context to make a difference. Supervisors walk the floor to
MachineMetrics / Jun 19, 2025

Clock In/Clock Out Brings Labor and Production Together

For most manufacturers, labor tracking still feels like a disconnected process. Time clocks sit in one system, job data lives in another, and payroll has to piece it all together later. This creates
MachineMetrics / Jun 11, 2025

Make Gains Stick with the Continuous Improvement Tracker

You ran the kaizen event. You saw the improvement. But two months later… is anything actually different? It’s a challenge every CI leader faces. Gains made during Lean or Six Sigma initiatives often
MachineMetrics / Jun 05, 2025
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    Lean manufacturing in the food industry
    Lean Manufacturing / July 13, 2018
    Lean manufacturing is useful in the food industry, too! Baking Business said, "With so many advances in technology today, it’s easy to assume that automation is the key to streamlining efficiency....

    Lean manufacturing and happy employees.
    Lean Manufacturing / April 30, 2018
    Lean manufacturing techniques can bring more than just a better OEE. Industry Week said, "Any operator or maintenance person I’ve ever talked to has a much better day when the machine is running...

    Merging different lean strategies
    Lean Manufacturing / April 25, 2018
    Lean manufacturing is not one size meets all. Industry Week said, "Manufacturing acquisitions, mergers, takeovers and other combinations are inevitable. So too is the eventual meeting of two distinct...

    Cutting tools and lean manufacturing
    Lean Manufacturing / April 23, 2018
    Woodworking Network said, "High quality, innovative tool manufacturing and servicing companies can be a partner in these lean initiatives both now, with more basic tool management strategies, and in...

    Save money with 3D printing
    Lean Manufacturing / March 21, 2018
    3D printing can save manufacturers money while opening up customization options. For example, "At the recent ARPA-e conference, organized by the U.S. Department of Energy, scientists from the...
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