Reshoring Playbook: A Manufacturer’s Guide to Bringing Production Back to the US (2026) The numbers are staggering. GlobalFoundries is investing $16 billion to reshore chip manufacturing. Johnson & Johnson has committed $55 billion to US-based facilities....
OEE Software for Small Manufacturers: A Practical Buying Guide for Discrete Plants Under 50 Machines You run a small or mid-size discrete manufacturing plant, 10 to 50 machines, 20 to 200 employees, making parts, products, or assemblies. You know your OEE is not where...
Top 10 Automotive OEE Software Tools for Manufacturing Excellence in 2024 Automotive OEE software has become essential for manufacturers seeking to optimize production efficiency and maintain competitive advantage. The automotive industry faces unique challenges...
Continuous Process Monitoring: How ProcessTrak Transforms Chemical Plant Performance Continuous process monitoring is the backbone of efficient, safe and profitable chemical manufacturing. Unlike discrete production where OEE measures units per cycle, chemical plants...
Quality Rate OEE: How to Calculate, Measure and Improve This Critical Manufacturing Metric The quality rate OEE component is the most under-measured, most misunderstood and most financially impactful component of Overall Equipment Effectiveness. While availability...
Quality Control OEE: How to Integrate Quality Into Your Manufacturing Performance System Integrating quality control OEE measurement into a single performance management framework is the step that separates factories running at 65% effectiveness from those...
