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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.
In most precision shops, the print is clipped to the bench, the setup sheet is buried in email, and the operator walks back to the office just to confirm the rev. Digital Production Bundles™ fix it. Built on the G-Code Cloud + DNC platform, every asset the operator needs is paired to the right part on the right machine, and every change is logged automatically. No hunting. No guessing which rev is current. One source of truth for everyone.
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.
Manufacturers care about outcomes, not acronyms. Datanomix is showing what AI looks like when it’s running on real machine data, helping shop owners answer the one question that matters: are we improving?
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.
14 minutes inside the Datanomix Production Monitoring Platform. A live walkthrough with real machine data, and No Operator Input™. Watch the on-demand demo.
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Bob McGregor, owner of Neo Industries, shares his continuous improvement habits that keep finding capacity in the machines he already owns. Learn a repeatable cadence for spotting where the next minute is hiding, a framework for prioritizing tooling and tool path investments, and a discipline you can put to work immediately.
Josh Cook knew Right Angle Steel & Fab had more capacity hiding in the shop. Machine monitoring for fabrication gave him the data to find it. 41% more uptime, 45% more capacity, and a 10x ROI later, the proof is in the numbers.
Coastal Machine and Supply built its reputation on oil and gas. Now they’re winning more defense and space work, with a 46% lift in five-axis utilization to back it up. Featured in Modern Machine Shop.
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.
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Most shops know they have downtime. What they don’t know is where it’s hiding, how often it’s happening, or what it’s actually costing them. Kody Guidry, General Manager of Coastal Machine & Supply, joins Gabe Maentz to talk through what changes when a team finally gets a clear picture of what’s happening on the production floor.
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Building a real digital thread is messier than anyone admits. Josh Cook, President at Right Angle Steel, walks through what it actually looks like from inside his high-volume fabrication shop, and where it’s taking operations.