What is Automated Production Intelligence™?

Manufacturers are looking to data analytics to improve their day-to-day operations—from production to job costing to understanding long-term trends. Today’s CNC machines generate massive amounts of information about every part run, but the data is in proprietary formats, making it challenging to coordinate analysis across machines from different vendors. Without the right machine monitoring solution, it’s hard to get a comprehensive, end-to-end picture of what’s happening in your factory.

When manufacturers take matters into their own hands, they manually pull data from machines and ERP systems using Excel or Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau to identify insights that help make better-informed decisions about their business. Although it’s a painstaking process, trends can emerge that provide insights into their operations.

The problem? Past events drive all of these insights. Historical analysis can be useful in discovering trends over time, but the past does not always predict the future. Changes in personnel or adding new shifts can often translate into a significant reduction in productivity that invalidates past performance trends and leaves manufacturers blind regarding what’s happening on the factory floor.

The Need for Real-Time Production Data

As manufacturers compete for new business, the desire for more data has never been greater. And the need to understand what is happening “right now” is driving the demand for real-time analytics. After spending 100s of hours speaking with manufacturers of all sizes, we realized an analytics gap for modern production floors. 

Other production monitoring solutions require operator input and extensive training. They provide basic data like status, utilization, and uptime/downtime, and though the data is interesting, it’s not transformative. And if your system offers valuable information after the fact, it may be too late to do something about it.

Manufacturers need real-time views of all the jobs in their factory. They don’t have the time to learn new software or input data as jobs run.
Real-time production monitoring should never add more work to the shop floor or require an analyst to decipher the data. Information and insights must be generated automatically and be available in a format that is immediately understood and actionable.

We Deliver Automated Production Intelligence™

Datanomix looked at the massive amounts of data available from today’s CNC machines and identified an opportunity to give manufacturers a real-time view of their production performance. We understand that you don’t need any more work—you need answers. So we built a new generation of production monitoring solutions that deliver the right information at the right time.

Datanomix production monitoring connects to your CNC machines and provides real-time insights on every part run and the ability to analyze trends over time. All automatically with No Operator Input™ required. Here’s how we do it:

Connect

We connect to your CNC machines via Ethernet or wirelessly with an external bridge device. Once connected, our Datanomix Edge Device immediately starts analyzing your live production data without disrupting your workflows. Data is “clean” from day 1 because we base our analytics on machine data, not human input. 

Analyze

By running just a few parts, Datanomix creates performance benchmarks for every job you run. Benchmarks are based on your best performance for every part and evolve, providing a stretch goal for future runs of that part. The benchmarks also create a production score—from A plus to C minus—for every job.

Inform

Everyone on the shop floor can just look up to see LIVE data broadcast on large-screen TVs using Datanomix TV Mode. It provides the ability to address stopped machines as a team and resolve issues faster. Plus, display a configurable menu of rotating live dashboards and reports for machine and cell performance. With real-time notifications, you can track job performance on your iOS and Android devices. Customers can pull up their most important reports and configure mobile alerts to show operators and supervisors what needs immediate attention.

Improve

Since the Datanomix platform stores the data from every job run, there is a rich repository of historical data that the platform analyzes to show you long-term trends. With this information, you have the data you need to help make better-informed decisions around quoting, costing, and planning to increase productivity and profits. 

Continuously

As more machines are connected to Datanomix, the impact increases. More data is analyzed, and the machine learning algorithms get more brilliant. Expertise and insights easily flow from the factory floor to the management level. And better information about utilization and actual costs leads to more business and profitability. It’s a virtuous cycle.

The Bottom Line: The Right Data, Right Now

With Datanomix, you have a system that shows you what’s going on in real-time and the context to better understand your business over time. All without having to do any of the heavy lifting. Just the right data right now.