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Unplanned Downtime: Causes, Calculations, and Cures

‘Downtime’ is one of the most dreaded words in manufacturing. While downtime is part of life in a factory, managers, operators, and technicians constantly strive to reduce it and mitigate its
Downtime / Sep 22, 2022

Schedule Attainment: Accurately Plan & Meet Production Goals

Did your team finish all the work that was planned for this week? Many KPIs are used in manufacturing to track production efficiency, quality, labor utilization, capacity, waste, and more. These KPIs
MachineMetrics / Sep 15, 2022

How to Improve Quality in Manufacturing

There are a few core measurements that every manufacturer uses to manage their operation. Measurements like efficiency, productivity, capacity, labor, and equipment utilization are almost universally
MachineMetrics / Sep 08, 2022

MachineMetrics, Universal Robots’ Partner to Automate Robot...

Precision manufacturers can now monitor collaborative robots from Universal Robots in real-time to drive automation that improves performance and reliability. NORTHAMPTON, Mass., September 6, 2022 --
press release / Sep 06, 2022
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    The Impact of COVID-19 on Manufacturing - From Shutdown...
    MachineMetrics / May 21, 2020
    A Bird's Eye View As we round out Week 12 of quarantine, many of us are wondering — when will this be over? It’s looking more and more like the effects of coronavirus are here with us to stay, until...

    The Impact of COVID-19 on Manufacturing - An Update fro...
    MachineMetrics / April 06, 2020
    An Update on What MachineMetrics is Doing As the full impact of the coronavirus sets in, our daily updates to manufacturing utilization have become an ever more useful item in the toolkit of...

    Unlocking the power of high-frequency control data
    Data Science / January 21, 2020
      An excerpt from Chopin’s Ballade №4 in F minor, Op. 52. Source: Burak Konakoglu Why High-Frequency Data? Imagine you’re trying to learn a new tune on the piano, but the sheet music only has one...

    What industry 4.0 means for networks
    Industry 4.0 / August 02, 2019
    The rise of industry 4.0 is revealing a lot of networks that need some help.  Network World reported, "The researchers say a smarter, unique, and organic infrastructure needs to be developed for the...

    The Unattended Factory and Industrial IoT
    MachineMetrics / July 24, 2019
    Much has been written about the “hidden capacity” that can be unlocked by Industrial IoT using advancements such as digital twins.  With the success of this technology,  a new report by Grand View...
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