You add up the mass of raw materials your facility consumes each day, look at the products it’s made, and the numbers just don’t balance—until you look at skids of rework and a dumpster topped off with the day’s malformed products and/or damaged packages.

 GE built the new Predix Cloud using its Predix software. 

If run to failure is no longer an option, food and beverage processors have alternative ways to keep their equipment running at peak performance levels; they can plan maintenance schedules based on OEM suggestions.

 The new module allows a single unit to collect up to 2,500 data points from five local and five remote controllers. 

Understanding the relationship between OEE and improvement is essential.

Confusion over who in the company owns the customer relationship is a major obstacle.

By choosing metrics to measure performance from a customer’s perspective, manufacturers can make analytics pay off.