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Automation and Process Simplification Define Eastec 2023

Manufacturing technology at this year’s Eastec met the market with tools to streamline operations and assist machinists in achieving greater productivity.

FactoryWiz Monitoring System Reduces Operator Errors

Eastec 2023: FactoryWiz provides real-time monitoring and data analysis to give manufacturers insight into the production process and help them make informed decisions.

Remote Machine Monitoring Connects the Shopfloor

IMTS22: FactoryWiz Monitoring enables manufacturers to visualize critical live machine data in real-time from any web-enabled device.

Preparing a Shop for Automation

Ensuring a stable, predictable production process can prevent automation from multiplying existing problems.

Monitoring Machine Tools? Don’t Discount DNC

Networks that feed part programs to shopfloor CNCs can double as a foundation for pulling data from them.

FactoryWiz Promotes Richard Hefner to Company President

FactoryWiz has announced that Richard Hefner, formerly its executive vice president, will now succeed John Hosmon as the company’s president.

CNC Data Feeds Make Social Distancing Easier

Machine monitoring helps work remotely, avoid close contact on the shop floor and prevent underbilling for lights-out machining.

FactoryWiz Monitoring's Productivity Manager Improves Data Analysis

FactoryWiz Monitoring v19 features Productivity Manager, standard reports, standard dashboards, a widget-driven tablet, user manual and native machine connections.

The Starting Point for Machine Tool Monitoring: Data Analysis Is an Emotional Choice

For machine shops, the transformation that data-driven manufacturing promises to bring begins with machine monitoring, and there is a human component to this.

Tablet Interface Software Offers Bidirectional Information Exchange

IMTS 2018: Designed for easy customization, the Flexible Tablet Interface from FactoryWiz (formerly known as Refresh Your Memory) offers widgets for data entry and display.

Machine Monitoring Enhances Human Resource Functions

Decisions about manufacturing processes are not the only business factors that can be improved by the insights derived from data collected by a machine-monitoring system. For this shop, using this information to strengthen and fine-tune its employee incentive program is a significant benefit, among many others.

3 Perspectives on Machine Monitoring

A panel discussion at the recent Top Shops Conference focused on various points of view regarding the value of connecting machine tools to a network for monitoring performance and recording results. Because machine monitoring helps a shop make better decisions about manufacturing processes, it is a good example of data-driven manufacturing in action.

Knuth Machine Tools to Host Productivity Workshop

The event will focus on machine tool efficiency, highlighting Knuth’s machine tools and Fagor Automation’s CNC technologies.

How to Anticipate Machining Errors before Parts Are Scrapped in QA

In L&S Machine's system for data-driven manufacturing, the data describe a good day.

Data from a Machine-Monitoring System Can Help Human Resource Management

Advanced Machining used FactoryWiz from Refresh Your Memory Inc. to go from simply buying more equipment when facing production constraints to becoming more efficient with machine monitoring.

Get Ready for Growth

Making good parts is one thing, but making good parts in a process that is scalable is something different. Here is how one manufacturer rethought its production to prepare for opportunity.

CNC Monitoring

FactoryWiz and FactoryWiz Pro CNC monitoring appliances are pre-loaded with modules for detailed reporting; e-mail and cell phone notifications; and real-time CNC status display for a plug-and-play installation. Reports include information on machine production, idle time accounting, rejected parts and specific part reports.

Plug-And-Play CNC Monitoring

These CNC monitoring appliances are preloaded for detailed reporting, e-mail notifications, cell phone notifications and real-time CNC status display for plug-and-play installation.