Manage Your Shop Floor With Time Tracking
Time is money on the shop floor. But for many manufacturers, knowing exactly how that time is spent—by people, machines, and processes—remains a frustrating black hole. That’s where shop floor time tracking comes in. By capturing real-time production data on labor hours and machine usage, shops can eliminate guesswork and finally connect their workforce activity to costs, delivery schedules, employee schedules, and quoting accuracy. Yet most shops still rely on outdated methods like paper logs or distant terminals that take operators away from their machines and eat into productivity. Harmoni changes that with a smarter approach to labor tracking
Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing: for Factories and Machine Shops
Introduction: The Manufacturing Shift That’s Already Here The way things get made is changing—and not slowly. Across the country, machine shops and mid-size manufacturers are adopting smarter tools, collecting better data, and making faster decisions. This shift is powered by what’s known as Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, also referred to as the fourth industrial revolution and smart manufacturing. Fueled by technologies like the industrial internet and advanced data analytics, it’s not just for the big guys anymore. If you’ve ever wondered what these terms actually mean—or how they apply to your operations—you’re in the right place. At its core,
Measures of Success: Understanding TEEP vs OEE
Metrics That Matter Most manufacturing shops have two primary focus points when considering metrics: efficiency and performance. Understanding efficiency and performance is essential to increase production output, improve operations effectiveness, and enable competitiveness. Uncovering just what is holding your shop back from high performance and efficiency can drastically improve the shop flow and prevent unnecessary expenses in the hope of artificially correcting these numbers. Shops that want to increase efficiency and performance must measure and utilize two key metrics in their manufacturing operations: TEEP (Total Effective Equipment Performance) and OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness). Utilizing these metrics through machine monitoring provides
