Case Study: Fastenal boosts production efficiency with MachineMetrics

Building the Future in Real-Time

Fastenal, an American industrial supply company with multiple manufacturing facilities, needed a better way to understand downtime, machine utilization, quality issues, and performance across shifts and weekends. After finding its previous monitoring software clunky and hard to report from, Fastenal turned to MachineMetrics for a more user-friendly machine monitoring and real-time visibility solution across its shop floors.

MachineMetrics implemented real-time dashboards, downtime Pareto charts, historical performance views, and shop-floor tablets to help Fastenal track machine activity, cycle times, and downtime reasons with greater transparency and accountability. The impact was significant: Fastenal reported 305 production hours saved in three months, 11% higher machine utilization, 150,000 more parts produced, 50 more jobs taken on, and ROI in under 30 days, with no added labor.

Fastenal

Matthew Nelson

Manufacturing Engineer