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Case studies

What changed once the machines started reporting

Deployments from manufacturers who connected existing equipment and began measuring machine state, downtime and true capacity.

Case studies

Deployments on real production floors.

Published case studies from Visual Factories customers, available as downloads.

Machining workstation on a production floor

Discrete manufacturing, Peru

FISA

Challenge
Production follow-up relied on manual reporting, so weak links in the line were only visible after the fact.
Solution
Machines were connected to Visual Factories for continuous activity capture and real-time production visibility.
Outcome
The team can now identify weak links in production as they happen and act on them to increase productivity.
Download the FISA case study(PDF)
Press shop production floor

Cutting tool manufacturing

Guhring

Challenge
Understanding true machine utilisation across a mixed fleet without adding manual data entry for operators.
Solution
Visual Factories connected existing equipment and presented machine activity per line, machine and product.
Outcome
See the published case study for the full account of the deployment and results.
Download the Guhring case study(PDF)
Customer outcomes

What changes once the machines report for themselves.

The shift from manual reporting to automatic collection changes the working day for every role on the floor.

  1. 01

    Losses caught inside the shift

    Stops and slowdowns surface as they happen, so a supervisor can act while the shift can still be recovered.

  2. 02

    Reporting without paperwork

    Production counts arrive from the machine itself, removing the manual tally sheets and the transcription behind them.

  3. 03

    A shared set of numbers

    Floor displays, supervisor reports and management summaries all read from the same collected machine activity.

  4. 04

    Targets that hold up

    Actual cycle times and downtime patterns give planners a realistic basis for the targets they set.

Testimonials

In the words of the people running the floor.

“Visual Factories simplicity and compatibility enabled us to connect all our machines on our own, and start monitor & analyze our performance in a matter of days.”
John Medley · Head of Engineering & Maintenance · Eissmann Automotive · Pell City, Alabama
“We wanted a more trustworthy and real-time method to follow up on a production in our plant. With the Visual Factories solution, we are now able to identify weak links in our production which allows us to solve problems and increase productivity.”
Elihai Radzinsk · Director · FISA Peru · Peru
“VF is the best investment I did in my 25 years in manufacturing.”
Tracy Breeding · Plant Director · Eissmann Automotive · Pell City, Alabama