- Posted: February 11, 2022
- Category: Artificial Intelligence
- Posted: February 6, 2022
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
Lean manufacturing strives to boost customer value by improving efficiencies and reducing waste across operations. Moving toward lean manufacturing requires more effective management of materials, human resources, and energy. Compiling and analyzing the right data is crucial to the success of lean manufacturing.
- Posted: February 1, 2022
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
- Posted: January 30, 2022
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
- Posted: January 25, 2022
- Category: OEE
- Posted: January 25, 2022
- Category: Other Data
- Posted: January 20, 2022
- Category: OEE
- Posted: January 20, 2022
- Category: Uncategorized
- Posted: January 18, 2022
- Category: OEE
- Posted: January 16, 2022
- Category: Uncategorized
- Posted: January 15, 2022
- Category: OEE
- Posted: January 14, 2022
- Category: Metrics
- Posted: January 12, 2022
- Category: OEE
- Posted: January 5, 2022
- Category: Metrics
- Posted: January 4, 2022
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
- Posted: January 3, 2022
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
Functional excellence is not enough to stay competitive in today’s manufacturing landscape. Maintaining a profitable, competitive and sustainable business today requires that organizations achieve efficiencies across each stage of the value stream. Creating and sustaining manufacturing efficiencies, however, can be challenged by a variety of factors, including a growing competitive marketplace, shifting customer demand, rapid introduction of new technologies, rising raw material costs, diminishing manufacturing expertise, as well as organizational, cultural, and process change management obstacles.
- Posted: January 3, 2022
- Category: Uncategorized
- Posted: March 1, 2021
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
- Posted: July 29, 2020
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
- Posted: January 22, 2020
- Category: OEE
- Posted: January 7, 2020
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
- Posted: December 9, 2019
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
- Posted: April 11, 2019
- Category: Events
- Posted: December 17, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing requires more than just investing in the latest IIoT solutions and technologies. Organizations that successfully incorporate smart manufacturing must experience a top-down shift from a process-first mindset to a culture-first mindset, effectively prioritizing the people side of the business. When every level of an organization is engaged and invested, a company can truly move forward and join “industry 4.0.” The following are necessary focus areas for successful integration of smart manufacturing principles and solutions.
- Posted: December 17, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
An increasingly global manufacturing marketplace continues to expand the competitive borders of the manufacturing environment. At the same time, tighter margins, smaller lot sizes, and higher quality requirements demand advanced technical solutions that help organizations achieve lean manufacturing across each stage of the production cycle. Since 2013, 5ME LLC has provided manufacturers with a web-based software suite that does just that. FREEDOM™ Smart Manufacturing platform delivers real-time collection and analysis of important manufacturing data that is accessible on any web browser and any device, connecting every asset on the shop floor and providing analytics to its users everywhere from the shop floor to the top floor.
- Posted: November 20, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
There’s an influx of information on the internet about smart manufacturing, IoT, and IIoT that makes it difficult to know what publications to pay attention to. At FREEDOM™, we know smart manufacturing – with our Smart Manufacturing Platform we stay up-to-date on industry trends, insights, and publications around these topics. Here are five articles we gathered to help keep your competitive edge.
- Posted: November 20, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
An operating platform is a foundation to manufacturer’s entire infrastructure. Depending on what systems are in place, these applications work together by sharing data which give manufacturers real-time visibility that enables instant decision-making. So, what’s holding manufacturers back from implementing smart manufacturing technology? Let’s take a look.
- Posted: November 1, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing strategies and solutions are helping organizations across sectors stay competitive in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace. Digital, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies are simplifying real-time collection and analysis of essential manufacturing data, information that is helping to boost productivity, improve product quality and enhance operational agility across the value stream.
- Posted: November 1, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing is a growing trend that shows no signs of stopping. Across industries, digital technologies and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions are transforming the shop floor from traditional linear operations to interconnected systems that communicate, adapt, collect, exchange and analyze data. These solutions are helping organizations boost production, improve efficiency and increase cost-savings, while simultaneously reducing unplanned downtime, part setup time, required system maintenance, and more.
- Posted: October 3, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines “smart manufacturing” as “fully-integrated, collaborative manufacturing systems that respond in real time to meet changing demands and conditions in the factory, in the supply network, and in customer needs.” In short, smart manufacturing is the optimization of every aspect of the value stream via interconnected solutions that facilitate automation, real-time monitoring, and continuous data analysis to increase efficiency and productivity.
- Posted: October 3, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
The technology landscape for North American manufacturers continues to grow more complex as new automated, smart technologies are introduced at a rapid pace. Automated, smart technologies are helping manufacturers keep step with this fluctuating marketplace, enabling them to maximize cost, delivery, flexibility, and quality via interconnected solutions that promote rapid flow and widespread use of digital information within and between manufacturing systems.
- Posted: September 28, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
FREEDOM™ demonstrated its growing, connected IIoT Smart Manufacturing Platform at IMTS 2018. More than 2,500 manufacturers brought their latest and greatest technologies to Chicago, Illinois. It was a record-breaking year for registrations, square feet of exhibit space, exhibiting companies, and booths.
- Posted: August 21, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
5ME® Cryogenics and FREEDOM™ are happy to announce the booths we will be exhibiting in at IMTS 2018. 5ME® Cryogenics will be exhibiting with Doosan Machine Tools America in the South Building and our Bluezone™ partners – Star SU and Fullerton Tool Company – and Benz, Inc. all in the West Building of McCormick Place. FREEDOM™ will be on display in the South Building as well as in the AMT Smartforce Student Summit in the North Building. Being in multiple locations gives you the opportunity to chat with our experts in nearly every building of the show!
- Posted: July 23, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
The competitive and highly regulated medical sector is one of the fastest growing segments of today’s manufacturing marketplace. This rapid growth requires smart management—of assets, budgets, processes and more.
- Posted: July 23, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
To thrive in today’s competitive manufacturing environment, you need to ensure optimal performance of assets while continuously increasing efficiency and reducing costs.
To improve processes, you must be able to measure in real-time what is working and what isn’t. Outdated data or a lack of current data can add to a growing performance problem, putting productivity, efficiency, and profitability at risk.
Your factory floor is an excellent example of where you should be continually capturing and analyzing data.
- Posted: June 27, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
Over the past decade, the manufacturing industry moved from reactive to predictive data analysis to monitor equipment, extend asset lifecycles and manage overall profitability. Today, the future is trending toward the use of advanced analytics applications that enable manufacturers to intelligently meet increased demand for customized products created at affordable mass-production costs while improving operational efficiency and overall productivity. Are you keeping pace with this shift?
- Posted: June 17, 2018
- Category: Smart Manufacturing
Collecting and analyzing data is crucial to ensuring long-term productivity and sustainability of operations. Detailed manufacturing metrics facilitate the optimization of shop-floor assets, improve overall productivity, and protect the bottom line.
Without this critical information, manufacturers cannot identify which aspects of an asset’s operational efficiency and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)—availability, performance, and quality—are lagging. As a result, companies fail to identify where inefficiencies and bottlenecks may be occurring, placing valuable production time and money at risk.