Practical guides to industrial IoT and the systems we build, from the team that installs them: furnaces, foundries, stores, payroll and the machines between them.
Visit the blogTemperature controllers, energy meters, VFDs, weighing indicators and PLCs: almost every device in a factory has a small RS485 port, and most of them speak Modbus. That one port is…
Ask a production manager how much time a CNC or press stood idle last week and the usual answer is a guess. The shift report says "machine running", but small…
"Where is part 1014?" If your stores team answers that question by walking the aisles, you are losing time on every pick. In many factories, finished goods are placed wherever…
In most foundries, the charge mix is still worked out on a calculator, the crane operator's loads are written on paper, and the alloy addition after the lab result is…
Payroll day in a factory often means three spreadsheets, a pile of punch exports and a lot of arguments about overtime. Shifts that cross midnight, workers on daily, weekly and…
Still writing furnace temperatures on paper every 30 minutes? Many heat treatment shops do. It works until a customer asks for the full temperature curve of a batch from three…