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A 60-year-old Oklahoma machine shop redefined customer trust with real production data and earned 13x ROI doing it.
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A 60-year-old Oklahoma machine shop redefined customer trust with real production data and earned 13x ROI doing it.
85% of precision manufacturers say the biggest breakdowns happen in the handoffs between systems, not inside any one of them. Here’s what the data says about where the digital thread snaps and what the shops that are getting it right did differently.
Most shops run complex operations on surprisingly little real information. In these interviews with Tony Gunn, you’ll hear what happens when a shop stops guessing and starts getting the story straight from the machine.
Reata Engineering built the digital foundation behind their automation strategy first, then let the numbers tell them where to scale. The result: 27% more uptime, 28% more utilization, and a 7x ROI.
How OMW Corporation retired a homebuilt monitoring system, changed the vocabulary on their floor, gained 12% utilization across 43 machines, and turned a single customer meeting into $2.5M in new business.
In the latest Datanomix Floor Report, Annie Michaud breaks down insourcing, hiring, and ERP schedule slips— and the decisions real-time machine data is changing now. Here are the challenges we heard most in Q2 2026 and how to fix them.
Your ERP knows the plan. Your machines know what’s actually happening. Datanomix ERP Insights connects them, so you stop guessing about profitability, efficiency, and delivery—and start knowing.
Here’s what a lot of shops heard: “Phase 2 got canceled, so I can stop worrying about it.” That’s the most expensive thing you could take away from this.
Cobots, pallet pools, lights-out, monitoring — four automation plays precision shops are betting on. Three only pay off if you’ve done the fourth.
Most shops think they’re running at 80% utilization. The reality is closer to 40%. Three plays inside the Datanomix Pilot close that gap — without buying a single new machine.
Bob McGregor runs Neo Industries in Colleyville, TX with a small cell of CNC machines. He’s cutting titanium parts 34% faster, running 25% more uptime, and building toward unattended operations. This is what process discipline backed by real data looks like.
From morning huddle to end-of-day review, every activity on your floor needs different data at the right moment. Playbooks delivers workflows automatically, sequenced and ready, so your team stops hunting for information and starts making decisions with it.
Only 25% of manufacturers walk into their morning huddle with real-time data. Here’s what the other 75% are missing, and how to fix it.
At Datanomix, listening never stops. Every conversation we have with precision manufacturers across the country shapes how we build, how we support, and how we show up for you. Here are the challenges we heard most in Q1 2026 and how to fix them.
Your G-Code is in the cloud. Why is the setup sheet still clipped to the bench? Digital Production Bundles take the shop floor paperless. Every asset an operator needs to run a part — delivered to the machine, under one rev.