Machine Monitoring for Fabrication: How Right Angle Steel & Fab Found Hidden Capacity on the Shop Floor
41% More Uptime. 45% More Capacity. Zero New Machines.
In high-mix fabrication, the gaps in your operation don’t announce themselves. Right Angle Steel & Fab in Nappanee, Indiana, knew something was off. Running thousands of parts a day across lasers, press brakes, and welding, they just couldn’t see where the time was going or what it was actually costing them.
That changed when they implemented machine monitoring for fabrication through Datanomix Production Monitoring. Cycle time gaps that had been hiding in plain sight became undeniable. Changeover costs that nobody was measuring were finally quantifiable. Schedules that looked right on paper but slipped in execution became something they could actually stand behind.
The results speak for themselves. Uptime up 41%. Capacity up 45%. Common waste down 30%. Each machine gained 300 additional productive hours per year, translating to $24,000 in recovered productivity and a 10x return on investment. Same shop. Same equipment. Just finally knowing what the floor was telling them.
RELATED VIDEO
Unlocking Hidden Capacity in High-Volume Fabrication
Right Angle Steel increased uptime 41% and expanded capacity 45% without adding new equipment. In a high-volume fabrication environment where margins are tight and competition is fierce, they turned to real-time machine monitoring to unlock hidden capacity, protect margins, and strengthen on-time delivery. See how they did it.
