Articles
Practical articles on unplanned downtime costs, connecting production systems and making manufacturing data actionable.
The planner plans. But not with the full picture.
The production planner does his job thoroughly. But the information he needs to plan well is scattered across systems, heads and shop floor conversations that never reach him. This article describes what happens when planning and reality live past each other.
Every system solves one problem. Nobody solves the space between them.
The data in your company is there. But it sits scattered across systems that each do their own thing. The problem isn't what each system knows. The problem is what disappears in the space between them. This article describes the pattern and why it's more persistent than you'd think.
The mechanic knows. Your system doesn't.
Your best maintenance technician knows which machine is about to fail. Your ERP doesn't. What happens when that knowledge retires?
What your production data isn't telling you
Over 80% of manufacturers cannot accurately calculate their true downtime costs. The data exists, but it sits in separate systems that don't communicate. This article describes the pattern, the consequences, and four questions to check if it applies to you.