Scytec’s cloud-based low-cost shop-floor monitoring system offers users real-time views of factory equipment operational status.
paper reports on a bulletin board in public areas. Our new electronic Shop Kiosk provides shops an alternative to post- ing paper reports. It provides an electronic and interactive dissemination method for content via a touchscreen LCD using a modern, tiled Windows 8 interface.”
Real-Time Analysis is Key To be competitive, manufacturing operations must collect and analyze factory-floor data in real time in order to more ef- fectively gage overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and other
factors. Until fairly recently, however, the costs for machine tool data collection have been prohibitive, with only larger manufacturing operations able to easily afford them. “It’s criti- cal that manufacturers focus on things in real time,” said Greg Mercurio, president, Shop Floor Automations Inc. (La Mesa, CA), a manufacturing integrator for collection and manage- ment solutions from Predator Software and Scytec Systems. Since last year, shops looking to lower data collection and monitoring costs have been using the Scytec Consulting Inc. (Greenwood, CO) cloud-based data monitoring system that Shop Floor Automations distributes. “We’re the sales, service and support partner for them, which includes demonstrations and on-site visits,” Mercurio said. “The difference in this ap- proach is it’s a ‘try before you buy.’”
Some years ago, it was commonplace to pay $2000– $3000 per machine for shop monitoring, Mercurio said, but with the Scytec cloud-based alternative, it costs shops a frac- tion of those prices. “For the medium-sized to smaller shops,
Photo courtesy Shop Floor Automations Inc.
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