Assaf Buch

The need to rethink crisis management and streamline remote-work for all industries was rapidly accelerated due to the 2020 global Covid crisis. Today, as the global community learns to deal with the changes the pandemic necessitated, many manufacturing plants have realized that going back to pre-Covid times is not an option.   As a result, the ability to access production floor

Insufficient quality control can create huge losses for manufacturers. The cost of poor quality is estimated to range between 5%-30% of gross sales for most facilities. Depending on the scale of your operations, this may amount to thousands or even millions of dollars in lost profits. The good news is it is relatively easy to recover this money on future

OEE is a well-known manufacturing KPI that measures the total efficiency of a production plant, but it can also be reframed as a potent financial indicator. When displayed in monetary terms, the OEE manufacturing metric can be used to illustrate the potential economic impact of production optimization and justify investments that will increase efficiency in your facility. What Is OEE?

Recent turmoil in the global supply chain has revealed just how fragile factory operations can be. 94% of Fortune 1000 companies experienced some sort of supply chain disruption during the events of 2020, and most were ill-equipped to deal with these pressing problems. Many suffered heavy financial losses as a result.   Now that it is clear that manufacturers must be

The market for production monitoring software is expected to reach $6.4 billion by 2023, indicating significant demand for the data these tools provide. However, data is only as useful as what it allows you to accomplish. If you cannot translate the production data you collect into actionable insights, you will not be able to capitalize on its value. Comprehensive shop

Because of its critical role in disseminating information amongst the team, the dashboard is perhaps the most important element of shop floor control software. A dynamic dashboard allows supervisors and workers alike to track production inside a factory using shop floor control software. Set up correctly, dynamic KPI dashboards can bring order to factory production and significantly increase both output

Each year, as technology advances, the manufacturing industry gains new and exciting opportunities. Industry 4.0 is perhaps the most promising among current emerging trends. This six-stage process of the industry 4.0 maturity index outlines the journey each manufacturer takes toward digital maturity, from employing nascent digital solutions to automatically leveraging the predictive powers of a fully connected network of machines. 

The term quality control refers to any measures that are taken to ensure that the products made in a particular facility are free of defects. Given the high volume of products leaving most modern manufacturing facilities every day, it is critical to ensure that production standards remain high on every machine and throughout every shift. If standards begin to fall,

Increasing automation has made CNC machining a highly productive and profitable business, driving a projected annual growth rate of 5.5% between 2019 and 2026. Medical and aerospace industries are amongst the biggest users of CNC machinery, as well as defense and petrochemical companies, in which precision is an absolute must-have. However, greater operational efficiency is always possible and should be

Whether political turbulence, economic challenges, or biological threats, we live in a world that is increasingly less predictable and where volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) is the new norm.  This has revealed vulnerabilities in the traditional business models and the manner in which organizations operate.  Doing business as usual is no longer a viable strategy because there is no

Adopting a holistic solution for real-time OEE management and enabling continuous improvement of complex production process in real-time   Business Needs: Eliminating manual processes that result in human errors and mistakes, and adopting an automated, real-time objective solution to gain full visibility of all production resources within the production floor. Real-time monitoring of mold usage by upgrading to a fully

Molds are critical to cost-effective scalable manufacturing, but they come with a high price tag: a complex, high-quality mold for use in the plastics industry can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The products they are used to create also often generate millions of dollars in revenue.  It is imperative that your molds be kept in peak condition for