ward lean manufacturing goals. “Shop-fl oor data management, especially with manufacturing data collection, can provide historical perspective on processes to help drive a new lean initiative,” Abbassian notes. “Most manufacturing engineers know where their shop fl oor is weak, but knowing the cumulative effect to cham- pion change is where we can help. In ad- dition, it can provide the metrics to gauge the ROI or success after the conclusion of the lean initiative.”
Manufacturing Data at Your Fingertips A fairly recent trend in data monitor- ing is customers looking for mobile data solutions, notes Greg Mercurio, presi- dent, Shop Floor Automations Inc. (SFA; La Mesa, CA), a distributor of Predator Software and other shop-fl oor data col- lection and networking solutions. Shop Floor Automations also has partnered with Scytec Consulting Inc. (Greenwood, CO), a custom manufacturing software developer offering a hosted machine tool data collection and process control system. The Scytec DataXchange sys- tem includes a confi gurable Real-Time Viewer dashboard for viewing of shop- fl oor data with automatic updating. “We’ve looked at certain solutions that don’t meet all of our customers’ needs and we fi ll in where the software lacks,” Mercurio says of SFA’s add-on software plug-ins developed for ap- plications like Predator MDC and other packages. “We build some customized software for that and sell it as a solution. One of the biggest things now is smart- phones and Androids. “Shop-fl oor data management in
some aspects is like an ERP or an MRP system, which is what I refer more to as an accounting system,” Mercurio notes. “It’s more involved with ‘Here’s what we should be doing; here’s the order, here’s the traveler, here’s the
delivery date that the customer is expecting. But the real- ity is shop-fl oor data management or data collection, with Predator or even our solution, differentiates us from an ERP and MRP solution.
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