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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

Closing the Gap Between Scheduling and Execution with the...

Manufacturing schedules look great on paper—until they meet the real world. Every day, jobs run late. Machines sit idle. Priorities shift. And despite everyone’s best efforts, it’s hard to answer one
MachineMetrics / May 28, 2025

Real-Time Job Tracking Delivers Clarity to the Chaos of the...

Even the most capable ERP system can only tell you what was planned. It can’t tell you what’s actually happening on the floor, right now. For most discrete manufacturers, job tracking still relies on
MachineMetrics / May 21, 2025
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    Harnessing Machine-Level Insights with MachineMetrics
    MachineMetrics / October 26, 2023
    This article is part of a series discussing the value of machine data for every level of an organization, including the machine level, plant level, and enterprise level. The MachineMetrics platform's...

    Improving Production with Automated Benchmarking
    MachineMetrics / October 19, 2023
    No matter if you are a production manager with 10 machines or an executive overseeing multiple plants, knowing how your organization performed yesterday, last month, and last year is of the utmost...

    Resource Optimization: Allocating People and Machines E...
    MachineMetrics / October 09, 2023
    Production leaders know that the answer to increasing throughput is not always "more budget", "more machines", or "more people." Before more investments can be made, the existing budget and...

    Unlocking Plant-Level Insights with the MachineMetrics ...
    MachineMetrics / September 07, 2023
    Ultimately, the goal of collecting data across your production and operations is not simply to capture all the information, but to drive insights from the data so that you and your team can take...

    A Deeper Look at the MachineMetrics Free Trial Program
    MachineMetrics / August 29, 2023
    Manufacturers are well aware of the value of data and the need for digitizing their operations. But selecting and testing solutions typically requires a major investment of time and resources, making...
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