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Five Methods to Measure Your Hidden Factory

April 28, 2019 by Joe Hackman 1 Comment

Recently, we shared some inspiration provided by some up and coming engineers we've had the opportunity to work with. Part of this inspiration was their ability to think bigger, be more creative and make incremental improvements to a project providing much better results for their employers dollars invested. This big picture thinking drew out some thoughts about the process a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Operations, Lean, Manufacturing Tagged With: CIMCO MDC, ERP, MES, Metrics, MRP, OEE, TEEP, Toyota Production System

Getting Started With CIMCO MDC-Max Shop Floor Screens

May 15, 2018 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

It's official, CIMCO A/S has released Shop Floor Screens for CIMCO MDC-Max. This useful feature will allow you to visualize your environment and view real time status of your machines. Make sure you have active maintenance before upgrading to version 8.03.00 or newer to enable this feature. This is a video tutorial on how to get started, but before we get to that here are some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CIMCO Tagged With: CIMCO MDC, How To, IIoT, MDC Dashboards, MDC-Max, OEE, Shop Floor Screens

New CIMCO MDC Web Client Now Available

March 31, 2017 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

Full MDC Web Client with Scaled up Monitors

As a part of a significant update, version 8.01 of CIMCO Software, the CIMCO MDC-Web client shared recently here is now available to customers with valid maintenance. Not being predictable the developers had a few more tricks up their sleeve and this final version has some excellent added features including the ability to remove the overview bar scale from and to scale the size … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CIMCO Tagged With: Advanced Manufacturing, CIMCO, CIMCO V8.01, Data Collection, IIoT, MDC, MDC-Max, OEE, Precision Manufacturing

Two for Friday – Innovation and OEE

April 18, 2014 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

While visiting one of our customers in the Visalia area this week, the visit provoked some ideas about innovation in manufacturing. Luckily there was a tie in to that in the news as well. On LinkedIn we saw several discussions about calculating OEE and looking beyond just OEE so this week's topics are: Efforts to Promote Innovation in Manufacturing OEE and Beyond, What … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Manufacturing, News Tagged With: Government, Innovation, Manufacturing, OEE, Two for Friday

Planning Your Machine Data Collection Install

October 25, 2013 by Joe Hackman Leave a Comment

The modern manufacturer seeks ways to improve all aspects of production. Many have turned to Machine Data Collection (MDC) to provide deeper insights into what is occurring on the shop floor. Implementing MDC can be challenging, however, considering the age, make and type of CNC machines utilized. This guide will help you plan ahead for an MDC installation and start to consider … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CIMCO Tagged With: Computer Integrated Manufacturing, DNC, DNC Max, FOCAS, Heidenhein LSV2, Hidden Factory, M-Net, MDC, MDC-Max, MT-Connect, OEE


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