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At the IMTS Industrial AI Conference in Chicago, our Chief Product Officer, Rutherford Wilson, took the stage with Steve Blackwell, who leads the Worldwide Manufacturing Center of Excellence at AWS, and opened with a question for the room: who here is already using AI in their shop? The hands came up slowly. One team reviews work packages against safety and compliance standards. Another uses it for engineering problem solving. The rest of the session hung on why those tools...

I spent this past week at IMTS 2026. My fifth one. It was as exhilarating as it was exhausting, and as I sit on the plane home with what is left of my voice, I finally have a few free minutes to write down what I saw. The best parts are always the same parts. Long days in the booth with my team. Dinners with customers who have become friends. Turning a corner in the West Building and running into someone I have known for a decade, both of us a little grayer, both of us still...

Introducing MaximaOS, the Manufacturing Operations Management Platform Built to Close the Execution Gap Machine connectivity, manufacturing execution, production analytics, and a way to build the workflows your plant runs that nobody else does. Every plant starts the day with a plan. By mid-morning a tool has failed on a job that was supposed to run clean, a pallet of material is still sitting on the dock, and a setup quoted at forty minutes has run ninety. The plan on the...

At Automate in Chicago, our Chief Product Officer, Rutherford Wilson, took the Innovation Stage to talk about the problem every multi-site manufacturer knows, and few have closed: the gap between what the schedule promised and what the floor actually did. The room was filled past capacity. The heads kept nodding. The execution gap is an expensive problem that most operations have learned to live with, and the floor already knows it. Watch the full session: MachineMetrics CPO...

TL;DR: In April, MachineMetrics released two new capabilities of our Intelligent MES: First Article Inspection (FAI) and Shift Handover. Both target the same problem from different angles: coordination friction that lives between people, processes, and machines, and quietly bleeds production time every day. FAI replaces manual, paper-based first-piece inspection workflows with a real-time digital process within ShopPulse. Shift Handover replaces tribal knowledge and rushed...

TL;DR: The manufacturing execution gap is the widening space between what your business systems plan and what actually happens on your shop floor. ERP systems plan production well. But the moment that plan hits the floor, reality diverges: machines break down, priorities shift, and operators need setup guidance that lives in someone's head. Traditional MES systems only record these deviations after the fact. The result is a familiar set of symptoms: supervisors reshuffling...

Q1 was a proof-of-concept quarter. Not just for the features we shipped, but for the kind of platform MachineMetrics is becoming. We released meaningful updates across scheduling, configuration, and the operator experience. We took the platform to ProveIt! and demonstrated it could stretch far beyond its home environment. We brought five customers into a room and let them build on it themselves. What came out of Q1 isn't just a list of releases. It's early evidence of where...

Five discrete manufacturers. Five real problems. Five working solutions built on live production data in 48 hours. Every manufacturer we talk to has the same frustration buried somewhere in the conversation: their software almost fits. The MES handles work orders, scheduling, and OEE. But the workflows that are specific to their operation, the ones that live on whiteboards and clipboards and tribal knowledge, those never quite make it into the system. So they build...

There's a take that's been gaining a lot of traction in manufacturing right now: that there's no such thing as an out-of-the-box MES. That every factory is so unique, you have to stitch together a dozen tools and rebuild everything from scratch every time. I've spent over a decade on shop floors. I understand why people believe that. But I think they're wrong, and I wanted to prove it. That's why we showed up at ProveIt! 2026. What ProveIt! Actually Is For those unfamiliar,...

Meet Your New Morning Teammate: AI Summary for the Daily Production Dashboard! Every day, production leaders across the shop floor start their morning the same way: open the Daily Production Dashboard, scan dozens of machines, and try to figure out what happened yesterday—and what needs attention today. With 80+ machines, each with their own utilization, part counts, cycle times, downtime reasons, and timelines, that’s a lot to digest before your first cup of coffee. So we...