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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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    Industry 4.0 ROI: A Framework to Evaluate Technology So...
    MachineMetrics / June 23, 2022
    Realizing the value of Industry 4.0 solutions can be a daunting for many manufacturers. Already shell-shocked by enormous disruption in the last few years, companies have seen stable, lean, and...

    The Impact of Industrial Data Platforms on Manufacturin...
    MachineMetrics / May 19, 2022
    The rise of industrial data platforms has been spurred by the growing use of IoT in the manufacturing industry. These huge volumes of disparate data types and sources have encouraged manufacturers to...

    How Digital Transformation is Disrupting Manufacturing
    MachineMetrics / October 07, 2021
    Over the last decade, digital transformation has accelerated among all industries. This revolution of new technologies has altered traditional manufacturing and the business landscape across the...

    How Industry 4.0 Is Transforming Lean Manufacturing
    MachineMetrics / May 06, 2021
    What Is Industry 4.0? The concept of Industry 4.0 is reaching—it covers technologies like industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the cloud, edge computing, and digital twins as well as other defining...

    Industrial DataOps: Unlocking Data and Analytics for In...
    industrial iot / February 11, 2021
    What's the Relevance and Importance of Industrial DataOps? From a manufacturing standpoint, data and operations in regard to data play a role in creating and maintaining a competitive, innovative,...
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