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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

Tariffs & the Factory: What Plant Leaders Can Do to Fight...

Executive Snapshot Tariff policy has shifted sharply in the past 18 months, squeezing margins for U.S. discrete-manufacturing plants. Metal duties remain in force, a new 25% levy on imported vehicles
MachineMetrics / May 01, 2025
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    Benchmarking Improvements - July 2021
    MachineMetrics / July 08, 2021
    Here at MachineMetrics, we are always striving to improve our product and add new insights and features for our customers. This is especially true as we continue to grow our market share and capture...

    Update to Benchmarking Product: New Features, New Graph...
    MachineMetrics / March 17, 2021
    Key Takeaways: MachineMetrics’ benchmarking tool enables manufacturers to compare performance against industry standards. The tool uses machine data to provide actionable insights, helping businesses...

    State of the Industry: March 2021 Update
    MachineMetrics / March 08, 2021
    Introduction As our daily utilization updates gain steam and receive more attention, we feel it’s important as data stewards to clarify our assumptions, any sources of bias we may have, and our...

    Recently Discovered Use Cases: Explaining our Predictiv...
    MachineMetrics / February 24, 2021
    Originally published on Towards Data Science Over the last few months, we’ve been quietly monitoring and discovering new use cases for our predictive machining product. Thanks to a streamlined...

    State of the Industry: Where Do We Go From Here?
    MachineMetrics / August 27, 2020
    Introduction: A Dissection of the Previous Few Months No one could have really predicted the effects of coronavirus on our society writ large at the beginning of this year. This is evidenced in...
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