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Is Your Production Data Garbage?
“Garbage In, Garbage Out” The Impact on Your ERP, Quoting, and Operations Many manufacturers struggle to…
Leadership from Southern California manufacturing facilities came to Ricaurte Precision in Santa Ana, California to network, learn, and share insights with their peers. Hernan Ricaurte, Owner, and Randal Leach, Production Manager, led a facility tour that highlighted the investments Ricaurte has made in automation, digital transformation, and building a culture of efficiency. These are topics Hernan is very passionate about because he credits them with keeping his facility competitive in a very competitive market.
One of the most important elements of Ricaurte Precision’s culture of efficiency is their morning Gemba walk, where they visit every machine to make sure each job is ready to run, and they review performance data to make course corrections if things are not on track. Randall gave a live demo of how he uses Fast Track during those Gemba walks as a one-stop-shop to understand if a job is performing to standard. He demonstrated how they use joint problem-solving with the operator to get jobs back on track if they are behind.
During the tour, Hernan shared how gathering data from critical assets is a requirement for continuous improvement, and a cheat code for overcoming skilled labor challenges: “If I could hire an engineer on every machine I would. There is plenty to improve, and we all know that. Instead, I have Datanomix because I need more eyes and ears that can tell us what’s really going on and how we can get better.” Seeing Datanomix as an “employee” that is providing clarity on where to focus attention and amplify people’s abilities to make improvements was a major discussion point for the group.
Another hot topic for the group was tool usage, tool life, and ways to cut tooling costs. Everyone felt there were plenty of opportunities to slash costs, but struggled to identify them. Andrew Lusty, Senior Account Manager, showed the group how Production Monitoring identifies opportunities by highlighting when operators were changing tools too early or too late, what tool life they were really achieving on key jobs, and how to use that tooling data in more advanced applications to predict how the tool life should really be programmed.
After the tour, the group gathered for a roundtable that hit on a wide range of topics from labor challenges to ERP best practices. Key topics included:
One of the biggest takeaways of the group was just how much Datanomix knows about production. One of the quotes from the tour was, “holy shit, you can see that?” Yes, yes you can. Several questions then centered around “well how hard is it to get that information?” Hernan blew the crowd away when he said “guys, I’m not exaggerating, with Datanomix, you just plug it in, you don’t do anything. It just figures everything out.”
The first stop on the Datanomix Make More Tour was a huge success. There was plenty of sunshine, good food, great company, and even an ice cream truck. The Crew from Datanomix is very grateful to Hernan, Randal, and all the attendees for taking time out of their busy schedules to network and share their insights around the challenges facing manufacturers today.
We’d love to hear about the challenges you face as a manufacturer – Visit the Datanomix Booth #135636 at IMTS 2024 on September 9 – 14, 2024, at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL USA.
If you want to hear more insights from Hernan Ricaurte, who is also the current President of the Southern California NTMA chapter, listen to his Manufacturing Maverick Podcast episode. You can also watch Hernan’s and Randal’s interview with MTDCNC’s Tony Gunn.
Original source Datanomix
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