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Data is Currency: Preparing for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks

December 17, 2019 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

Lurking somewhere in your computer systems is data that in the future will be able to improve awareness, efficiency, and profitability at your company. This is possible by allowing you to more readily adapt data hungry technologies such as AI, machine learning and neural networks.((The more data you have, the more accurate and useful these technologies are)) You've already made … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Operations, Lean Tagged With: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Data is Currency, ERP, Machine Learning, MDC, MDM, MES, Neural Networks

CIMCO Tech Tip – Connecting Excel to the CIMCO Database using ODBC

December 13, 2019 by Kevin Payne Leave a Comment

CIMCO Manufacturing Data Management does a great job of storing and controlling all of your manufacturing data. CIMCO Machine Data Collection does a great job tracking all of your machine metrics. They both also include a complete report system that can be customized and accessed via their respective clients. As is often the case, sometimes you may want to include some of this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CIMCO Tagged With: Excel, Industry 4.0, MDC, MDM, ODBC, Reports, Tech Tips

Traceability Using CIMCO Software

December 10, 2019 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

One way to help digitally transform manufacturing companies is to implement enhanced traceability. This can be useful to ensure that required tolerances and procedures have been followed, as well as provide additional data related to the manufacture of a given component or product. For example a company may need to provide documentation to show that a part was within all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Operations, CIMCO, Lean, Manufacturing Tagged With: CIMCO, Digital Transformation, Hidden Factory, IIoT, Industry 4.0, Lean Manufacturing, MDC, MDM

Advanced IoT Keurig Coffee Machine Data Collection

December 5, 2019 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

Prior to this year, it had been 6 years since Managed Solutions participated at the Westec show. While keeping up with the expanding needs of our customers, the task of preparing for Westec was growing in urgency. Two ideas were percolating here: to be more personal/welcoming and to feature something different. In order to capture our desired culture we settled on the "Westec … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CIMCO Tagged With: CIMCO MDC, IIoT, Industry4.0, IoT, Keurig, Moxa, Westec

Sacramento Area Manufacturers Mobilize to Ensure Bright Future

December 3, 2019 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

In June of last year we shared some examples of manufacturer led initiatives that are working to tackle the biggest challenges they face. The challenges are predominantly the skills gap and workforce development issues. Now it is 2019, and have an update for you. In an Email update from SVMI executive director Dean Peckham to supporters and manufacturers Dean laid out the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beyond the Shop Floor Tagged With: Apprenticeships, CTE, Skills Gap, SME, SVMI, Workforce Development

CIMCO Tech Tip – Adding Percent handling to a Standard Serial Port

November 26, 2019 by Kevin Payne 2 Comments

Today we will be looking at the procedure for adding the ability to handle “%” signs to a standard serial port. This will allow us to run programs that do not have percent signs on machines that require them at the beginning and end of programs without editing the program. Let’s say for instance that we have a machine down and need to run production on another machine. We don’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CIMCO Tagged With: DNC Max, RS232, Tech Tips

Paint your old Machines White

November 21, 2019 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

Have you ever driven by an old building with numerous broken windows? Broken window theory suggests if you do not repair a single broken pane that many others will end up with a similar fate. This psychology and it's impact on other things was indirectly touched on by Julien Verhille, an Operations/Lean Manufacturing manager in France in a recent LinkedIn post: Not everybody … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lean Tagged With: 5S, Lean, Lean Manufacturing, TPM

CIMCO MDM and Mastercam Integration Pt. 2

November 19, 2019 by Kevin Payne 2 Comments

CIMCO MDM to Mastercam Integration

Dynamic Lists and Import Features. In part 1 of this series, we went over setting up the MDM configuration, copying the chooks over, and customizing the ribbon in Mastercam to add the CIMCO buttons to it. As promised in the first article we'll cover the setup of the dynamic tool list and the actual process of performing the exchange between MDM and Mastercam. Setting up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CIMCO Tagged With: CIMCO MDM, Industry4.0, Manufacturing Data Management, Mastercam, Tech Tips

CIMCO MDC Andon Solution

November 14, 2019 by Kevin Payne Leave a Comment

Have you thought about Implementing an Andon station on your shop floor? Do you have CIMCO MDC-Max running in your shop already? If you answered yes to either of these questions then it is easier to deploy than you think. What is Andon? Before we look at how, let's take a brief look at what Andon means in manufacturing. Wikipedia defines Andon as: A manufacturing term … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CIMCO, Lean, Manufacturing Tagged With: Andon, CIMCO MDC, Industry4.0

CIMCO MDM and Mastercam Integration Pt. 1

November 11, 2019 by Kevin Payne Leave a Comment

CIMCO MDM to Mastercam Integration

Setting Up the Interface between MDM and Mastercam One of the benefits of CIMCO Manufacturing Data Management (MDM) is that it provides numerous ways to save you time while adding and working with your data. One example is integration with popular CAM software packages. Today we'll be sharing how to go about setting up the MDM interface with Mastercam. This gives you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CIMCO Tagged With: CIMCO MDM, Industry4.0, Manufacturing Data Management, Mastercam, Tech Tips

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