Why Your Factory Machines Shouldn’t Be On Your Main Network
Great - A Lecture On Security -_- Dealing with network security is about as fun as going to the dentist. It is this balancing act of opening things up enough to be productive while minimizing the potential for catastrophe. As somebody who started their career in IT, I can appreciate how stressful and thankless maintaining that balance can be. "What do you mean I can't install an application myself?", "what is this dual-factor garbage?", "I can do whatever I want to my home PC, and I never got hacked." But when things hit the fan, IT are the ones frantically
How To REALLY Be Measuring Manufacturing Efficiency In A Machine Shop
There is a myriad of ways to measure your manufacturing process efficiency, ranging from simplified utilization percentage measurements to calculating production efficiency with complex OEE calculations involving numerous loss factors. But what almost all existing methods of measuring efficiency miss, and what all machine shops suffer from to varying degrees, is the disconnect between spindle time and charged time, or the amount of time that an employee allocates to a job either through time cards or an ERP system. Let’s start with some basics on efficiency measurement before touching on how we can get the real picture of manufacturing productivity
