What's Happening at Machine Tracking

Daily Gemba walks are great but having real-time data to go along with them helps to avoid anecdotal conversations and run your...

Sometimes we hear, 'We're a job shop, machine tracking isn't for us'. Job shops that have embraced tracking setups, have increased...

If you're an owner-operated manufacturer, it's easy to be distracted by what the big guys are doing and try to mimic their actions; it...

"There's no such thing as a free lunch", is something I heard constantly throughout my Math classes in high school. It was a reference...

There is a downturn-driven labor shortage for many industries but the labor Manufactures require is not part of it. Manufactures...

"..reductions in cycle time never added to the bottom line"❗️ Udo Jahn exposes the misguided belief that cycle time reduction results in...

"You're only telling me what I already know", is a common thing we hear. So what's the point of gathering machine data? When we hear this...

A small shop in Perry, Ohio struggled to know if they should hire more help, add a 2nd shift, or buy another machine. This seemed like...

Images like this lead us to believe that reducing cycle time will net big gains in production output. This is because practices to...

Expecting people to excel without giving them a way to measure their performance will frustrate them and negatively affect morale....

1. Sluggish - More data requires more resources to decipher. Too much data can overload your ability to ingest the information and...