Dasarathi G V

How a firm used LEANworx for machine downtime tracking and froze all capital expenditure on new machines for 2 years, even though their orders were increasing by 15 % a year. About the LEANworx userManufacturer of machined castings for export – railway parts, off road vehicles. Machines are CNC lathes, machining centers, foundry equipment. […]

OEE tracking software – how it it helps fix the CEO’s capacity planning headaches OEE tracking software helps in capacity estimation and planning, whether you are a vendor (manufacturer) or a customer evaluating a vendor. OEE is a really neat invention to measure how well you are using your machines, It has a

Industry 4.0 implementation – what is the role of a CEO ? What is the role of a CEO in implementing Industry 4.0 and keeping it going in an organization ? Does the CEO have to be hands-on ?This picture is the short answer, which is that the role of a CEO is

Is there such a thing as an Industry 4.0 standard ? Does ‘Conforms to Industry 4.0 standard ’ have any meaning ? No.The term is meaningless. There is no yardstick that you can use to say ‘This system conforms to the Industry 4.0 standard’. Industry 4.0 is merely a term used to denote a kind

Machine data monitoring systems sound scary, expensive, very high tech, and long term. They are actually not any of these. With a proper roadmap you can start seeing benefits rapidly, economically, in just a couple of weeks. You can get return on full investment in just 1 to 3 months, depending on the

Plan for reducing 3 big machine downtimes caused by work ethics issues In a lot of shops, just machine downtime at shift changes and extended break times can account for up to 1.5 hours in each 8-hour shift, which is an astounding 18 % of available time. If you also have night time

What does Industry 4.0 do to the daily morning production meeting ? All of us in manufacturing, we dread those daily morning production meetings, right ? With Industry 4.0, you’ll actually start loving the meetings. Production meetings the current way For half an hour before the time of the meeting, we look at

Is Industry 4.0 relevant only for shop floors with high automation levels ? For some reason, Industry 4.0 is always mentioned in the same breath as Robotics, Additive manufacturing, Virtual Reality, Augmented reality. So what does this mean ? Is Industry 4.0 not for me if I do not use any of these

Industry 4.0 terms and Industry 4.0 buzzwords – the ‘need to know’, and ‘can throw in the dustbin’. This article is for users of Industry 4.0, who are confused by all the Industry 4.0 terms and Industry 4.0 buzzwords that are thrown at you whenever you try to understand what Industry 4.0 is,