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What's Happening at Machine Tracking
Matt Ulepic
Nov 15, 20211 min read
Being a Job Shop is an Advantage. Lead Time is the Game.
Sometimes we hear, 'We're a job shop, machine tracking isn't for us'. Job shops that have embraced tracking setups, have increased...
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Matt Ulepic
Nov 15, 20211 min read
It's Not Complicated, It's Uptime.
If you're an owner-operated manufacturer, it's easy to be distracted by what the big guys are doing and try to mimic their actions; it...
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Matt Ulepic
Nov 15, 20211 min read
The Cost of Business is Going Up!
"There's no such thing as a free lunch", is something I heard constantly throughout my Math classes in high school. It was a reference...
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Matt Ulepic
Nov 15, 20211 min read
Hoping For a Labor Solution is a Waste of Time.
There is a downturn-driven labor shortage for many industries but the labor Manufactures require is not part of it. Manufactures...
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Matt Ulepic
Nov 15, 20211 min read
What Really Impacts Manufacturing Bottom Line?
"..reductions in cycle time never added to the bottom line"❗️ Udo Jahn exposes the misguided belief that cycle time reduction results in...
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Matt Ulepic
Nov 15, 20211 min read
Looking For Skilled Labor?
"You're only telling me what I already know", is a common thing we hear. So what's the point of gathering machine data? When we hear this...
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Matt Ulepic
Nov 15, 20211 min read
Can't Keep Up with Demand? Should You be Hiring More Help?
A small shop in Perry, Ohio struggled to know if they should hire more help, add a 2nd shift, or buy another machine. This seemed like...
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Matt Ulepic
Nov 15, 20211 min read
It's Not Cycle Time Slowing Production.
Images like this lead us to believe that reducing cycle time will net big gains in production output. This is because practices to...
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Matt Ulepic
Nov 15, 20211 min read
Your Current Performance Measures Only Frustrate Your Team
Expecting people to excel without giving them a way to measure their performance will frustrate them and negatively affect morale....
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Matt Ulepic
Nov 15, 20211 min read
Excuses Don't Identify Available Capacity, But Real-Time Data Does.
Production Supervisors have the 'cat-herding' task of managing output to meet manufacturing demand. But the data they have is after...
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