Is your shopfloor data accurate or just convenient ?
Most factories think they know what’s happening on the shop floor. Managers flip through Excel sheets. Supervisors rely on manual logs. Operators fill out notebooks at the end of shift. The reports look neat and clean. But scratch the surface and reality tells a very different story. Snapshot Most shopfloor data looks accurate on paper, […]
Is Your Shopfloor’s Machine Utilization Really 70%?
Most factories claim 70% utilization , but real machine data shows the actual number is usually closer to 30–45%. If your utilization comes from reports instead of the machine itself, you’re probably overestimating it by almost 2X. Snapshot Factories reporting 70% utilization often discover the real number is barely 30–45%. Manual shift logs miss 60–90 […]
Why does your factory need paperless manufacturing software?
Still chasing paper logs on your shopfloor? It’s slowing you down more than you think. A paperless manufacturing software like Leanworx turns messy logs into real-time insights, automated alerts, and role-based dashboards. Read on. Snapshot Paper-based shopfloors slow down decisions, give rise to errors and hide inefficiencies. Going paperless improves visibility with real-time updates and […]
How to increase production capacity in manufacturing in 2024
The most obvious answer to the question “How to increase production capacity in manufacturing” is to buy more machines. This is the easiest, but also the worst. The best answer is to increase the production capacity by improving the efficiency of machines and production lines by: Reducing machine downtime. Reducing part rejections. Reducing cycle times. […]
How to increase production capacity in manufacturing in 2024
The most obvious answer to the question “How to increase production capacity in manufacturing” is to buy more machines. This is the easiest, but also the worst. The best answer is to increase the production capacity by improving the efficiency of machines and production lines by: Reducing machine downtime. Reducing part rejections. Reducing cycle times. […]
How CNC machine monitoring system improves profits rapidly
Downtime at shift change. Feed rate override misuse. These are two common work ethics issues. Here’s how you can fix these in just 2 weeks, with a CNC machine monitoring system. 1. Fix downtime at shift change – fix with CNC monitoring system The CNC monitoring system can detect and report downtimes at the start and end of […]
Can Machine Monitoring Software Improve Work Ethics?
Downtime due to work ethics issues can account for a surprisingly large amount of downtime. Late starting and early stoppage in shifts, extended meal breaks, high downtime in night shifts, etc. Total downtime for this can be 10 – 25% of the available time. This is low hanging fruit that requires very little time to […]
IoT based machine monitoring system – components
IoT based machine monitoring system The components of an IoT based machine monitoring system are these: Cyber physical system, IoT and Cloud computing. Cyber-physical system (CPS): Basically, a machine that is controlled or monitored by a computer that is directly connected to the internet. Cyber means ‘involving, using or relating to computers’ (as in cyber-space or […]
Maintenance monitoring system
Maintenance monitoring system – benefits An Industry 4.0 based maintenance monitoring system can dramatically improve efficiency of your maintenance, reduce machine downtime and cut cost of spares. This applies to breakdown maintenance, preventive maintenance, and predictive maintenance. If you are targeting the 8 wastes of LEAN to improve profitability, read on… Breakdowns or Unscheduled Maintenance (UM) How […]
Machine downtime monitoring systems – rapid benefits plan
Machine data monitoring systems sound scary, expensive, very high tech, and long term. They are actually not any of these. With a proper roadmap you can start seeing benefits rapidly, economically, in just a couple of weeks. You can get return on full investment in just 1 to 3 months, depending on the cost of […]