Assaf Buch

The COVID-19 quarantine has forced businesses everywhere to shift to remote operations and drastically re-evaluate the scale of their operations for the immediate future. The coronavirus' impact on manufacturing is no different. This pandemic is causing major disruptions in the usual forces of supply and demand and forcing managers to monitor production lines and resource usage at a distance; in

It's official - coronavirus is here, and it's not going away anytime soon. Countries all over the world are asking their citizens to make drastic changes to their daily lives in order to fight the spread of the disease. With such a massive shift in behavior naturally comes a shift in manufacturing needs. Luckily, you don't have to go into

Arkal Automotive, Lightweight Plastics Design & Manufacturing Business Needs: Achieve higher productivity worldwide Apply standard measurement worldwide, deploy automatic performance measurement tools across the business for reliability and less human user error Get real-time visibility on multi-site performance Collect data to enable data-driven decision-making Matics Solution: Real-time Manufacturing Analytics Platform The Impact: Increased production efficiency and factory agility for Just-In-Time

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Tirat Zvi, Food Production Business Needs: Improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Understanding production discrepancies Shortening production line process Matics Solutions: Real-time Manufacturing Analytics Platform The Impact: ● Improved OEE by ~15% ● Decreased the number of shifts by one shift ● Reduced the time between production and packaging from 4-6 days to 2.5-3 days ● Implemented a 100% Digital Performance

How did Magic Polo Plast, a plastics manufacturer, improve production and save money with Matics? By Eran Appel, Magic CEO Our Goals: Eyes on the manufacturing floor 24/7 Magic Polo Plast is a plastics manufacturing plant that was established in Kibbutz Ma’anit in Israel over 20 years ago. It operates 12 production lines and injection machines and has about 30

In the past, manufacturers had huge concerns about using cloud-based MES systems. The cloud was evolving quickly, with hundreds of new providers entering the space, and IT leaders were worried about lack of control of operations, IT breakdowns, poor cybersecurity, and hacks. Today it is a different story: the cloud is widely accepted as a highly secure and effective way

The Factory-Floor Side of Smart Digital Transformation For the past decade, the manufacturing world has been shaping itself slowly but surely into another industrial revolution: Industry 4.0, a new phase that focuses heavily on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. Chen Genossar, VP at Matics, a technology company that provides real-time manufacturing analytics solutions for optimized efficiency on the

The 2012 Energy Efficiency Directive establishes a set of binding measures to help the EU reach its 20% energy efficiency target by 2020. Under the Directive, all EU countries are required to use energy more efficiently at all stages of the energy chain, from production to final consumption. In 2016 the Commission proposed an update to the Energy Efficiency Directive, including a new

We are Pleased to announce the release of version 1.9 of Matics The latest and exciting version of Matics offers tools to the entire factory team, providing accurate insights and enabling users to communicate more effectively in order to impact the production process in real-time. Communicate your insights Automatic notifications and insights help managers identify problems earlier and address them faster. A new inter-organizational communication platform helps track and record the flow of communications:

I have been conducting implementation and support for projects implementing our out-of-the-box MES system, Matics, and I often find that MES and ERP roles are not always clear in a manufacturing facility. ERP implementation is a significant step for an organization and it tends to be time- and resource consuming. When an organization has already gone through such a process,