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...
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...
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...
Like Formula 1 And Nascar, In Manufacturing, Better Data = More Winning
The Nascar and The Formula 1 racing schedules both start soon (Rejoice!). Over the past few years, both sports have undergone a remarkable technological transformation, mostly around the wealth of data available to them. Historically, competitors in the sport of...