Operational Efficiency Archives

Your Factory Runs on Data. So Why Is Waste Still Invisible?

May 14, 2026 | Articles

OVERVIEW Most manufacturers have invested heavily in analytics software: PLCs, SCADA, MES, ERP. Yet unplanned downtime persists, and critical production problems go undetected. This guide explains why, and what a new class of AI-driven investigation tools can do about...

From Changeover Variability To Recovered Capacity: How a Steel Manufacturer Unlocked $330K in Annual Throughput from a Single Changeover Improvement and $1.3M Across Four Lines

May 13, 2026 | Case Studies

Resource Hub From Changeover Variability To Recovered Capacity How a Steel Manufacturer Unlocked $330K in Annual Throughput from a Single Changeover Improvement and $1.3M Across Four Lines A North American steel manufacturer operating a capital-intensive pickling line...

7 Reasons Electronics Manufacturers Fail to Turn Data Into Action

Apr 21, 2026 | Articles

Electronics factories generate more data every year, but not enough of it gets used. The Manufacturing Leadership Council reports that 44% of manufacturers say the data they capture has at least doubled in the last two years, but only about 30% use it to predict...

From Operator to Global Leader: Hard-Won Lessons in Manufacturing Excellence | Guido Heuser

Apr 1, 2026 | Podcasts

Some careers are built top-down. Guido Heuser’s was built from scratch — literally. He started on the SMT line as an operator at Nokia, at the moment mobile phones were transforming the world, and spent the next three decades learning every layer of electronics...

From Data to Action at Scale: How a Global Electronics Manufacturer Achieved Near-100% Automated Downtime Labeling and Instantly Scaled Across SMT Lines

Apr 1, 2026 | Case Studies

Resource Hub From Data to Action at Scale How a Global Electronics Manufacturer Achieved Near-100% Automated Downtime Labeling and Instantly Scaled Across SMT Lines A global electronics manufacturer partnered with Arch and Fuji to improve how downtime is identified...