This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This blog is about technology, as well as some of my personal interests. I am the CEO/CTO of Virtual Photons Electrons. I was the CTO for MEMEX for three years, the President and Chairman of the Board for the MTConnect Institute from May 2010 to January 2014 and prior to that I spent 23 years at Sun Microsystems.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Great Okuma Video Showing MERLIN by Jeff Estes - Director of THINC
Jeff Estes, of OKUMA, is the Director of THINC and has a very nice video below that shows Memex Automation's MERLIN - Manufacturing Execution Realtime Lean Information Network - running at Okuma.
Jeff makes the point that "Profits can sneak out your door silently, unseen. But today we have tools that can help you determine where your productivity problems are, so you find and resolve them. The key is to perform shop floor monitoring and operations monitoring in addition to machine monitoring. By doing this you can view key performance indicators like parts output and quality – factors that are critical to measure so you can control your costs."
Below is the video - thanks Jeff!