Machine / Operator Analytics, Employee Engagement and Productivity
“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” — Tom Peters Author of In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies Modern Industry has always sought to measure...
A Tale of Two “Manufacturing Analytics”: Plant Performance vs. Business Intelligence Analytics
Many manufacturers have implemented costly ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems in order to track manufacturing KPIs and have tried to leverage those systems to provide real-time data from the factory floor. While not purpose-built for this, most ERP systems are...
SensrTrx Blog Top Ten Greatest Hits
We’ve taken the time to curate a few of our favorite and most informative topics since 2016. Without ado, the SensrTrx Greatest Hits: What Is The Cause of Downtime In Manufacturing? One of our most popular blog posts, this question is often at the heart of what...
Smart Factory Summit: Round-Up
Just last week, SensrTrx and three of our fellow partner vendors put on the first Smart Factory Summit in Columbus, Ohio. This free manufacturer’s only event was the combined brainchild of SensrTrx, Banner Engineering, FiiX Software and Siemens PLM. Together, these...
What’s the Difference Between Discrete and Process Manufacturing?
We talk to a lot of different manufacturers whom generally fall into two broad categories: The discrete manufacturers that make things and the process manufacturers that make stuff. What’s the distinction? Discrete manufacturers make things that can be counted and...
Manufacturing Analytics vs. IoT Platforms (Azure and Amazon Web Services)
“Everything that can be automated will be automated.” – Robert Cannon, Robotics Professor Stanford University IoT – The Internet of Things. Soon that term might seem like an irrelevant redundancy, like “Smart” Phone or “Mobile” Website or “Big” Data. The...
What is Manufacturing Excellence?
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”– Henry Ford (supposedly) Manufacturing excellence is a broad term. For some manufacturers it represents simply a production benchmark, a set of “world-class” manufacturing...
The Top 12 Manufacturing KPIs To Track Operational Excellence
This is part of the series of blog posts we are writing called “Measuring for Excellence”, in which we’ll be exploring the strategies and best practices some of the most successful companies employ to build a culture of manufacturing excellence in their organization....
Is Your Company Culture Ready for Manufacturing Analytics?
A lot of people assume that a product like SensrTrx will cost tens of thousands of dollars, take forever to implement and be a total bear to roll-out for adoption by employees. Lets quickly dispel some of that thinking: Will it cost too much? As long as it isn’t...