There was an imaginary moat that once existed between IT and the shop floor. It used to feel like protection, safely guarding teams around their specializations – whether pumping out …

Imagine this: as a manufacturer, one of your engineers or CNC programmers has finally completed a product design for a part worth $75,000. They add the files to a USB …

PDM, MDC and DNC software are among the highest-sought Predator solutions supported by the manufacturing integrator Shop Floor Automations (SFA), a manufacturing integrator specializing in digitally transformative hardware, software and …

Your aged CNC machines and legacy DNC software can work fine…until they don’t. Maybe the PC communicating to the machines starts dropping characters while transmitting the NC code, scrapping parts …

Many machinists, production managers, and other shop floor workers wish they had paperless manufacturing. It feels like an impossible pipe dream to them. It may be trendy to do so, …

What is lean production? One can view it as an alternative term for lean manufacturing, but we wanted to take a deeper look. “Lean production is centered on determining what …

CNC Revision Control is overlooked on the shop floor. Raw material and time are wasted when old programs run at machines. “Revision control is the management of modifications done to …

The following is an archived copy of our May 2018 newsletter sent May 22nd. Subscribed, but not receiving newsletters? Get more info on this page! Does getting your shop floor …

Everyone works differently on the shop floor. Some machinists use sticky notes, or custom stickers on machines, other use full sheets of paper to leave notes, and there are others …

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As a manufacturer, you have a lot of daily concerns, such as downtime and productivity. Is your manufacturing ROI an issue that is falling to the wayside? With a new year …

Summer 2017 Predator Software Updates Shop Floor Automations is excited to share with you these Summer 2017 Predator Software Updates: In August, July & June, there have been the following …