What to do about "messy data"

Machine failure, once an accepted part of life for manufacturers and OEMs, has met its match with modern technology using IoT devices, the cloud, and edge computing. In order to pre-empt and prevent

Originally published on Modern Machine Shop. When pen-and-paper methods of tracking job efficiency left AccuRounds’ engineers and managers in the dark, the shop switched to MachineMetrics. But

What is an Edge Device? Edge devices are pieces of equipment that serve to transmit data between the local network and the cloud. They are able to translate between the protocols, or languages, used

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a methodology that has been around for many years. It is a straightforward system that measures a machine’s performance and productivity. By factoring in

What is messy data? It's data that you can't analyze or use right away, and time is wasted when problems aren't caught immediately.

Industry Week said, "Manufacturing software providers shouldn’t view their job as complete once the data feed is set up. For each process step, each machine, each sensor, they should take a few minutes to understand the data."

We agree, and we believe that data should be available immediately, and that's why we have real-time analytics dashboards. Messy data is wasting time and money! What you need from your data is immediate, actionable insights that can be used to improve efficiency.

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