Case Study: Fastenal boosts machine utilization and production with MachineMetrics

Fastenal Manufacturing boosts machine utilization 11% with MachineMetrics

Fastenal Manufacturing, a diverse global manufacturer, faced challenges in gaining real-time visibility into their high-volume, high-variety production across multiple facilities. They needed to overcome data silos, understand machine utilization and downtime reasons, and ensure on-time delivery. To address this, they partnered with MachineMetrics to implement its industrial IoT platform for a digital manufacturing transformation.

The solution from MachineMetrics involved installing its platform to collect data from all shop floor assets, providing real-time dashboards and operator tablets for human context. This enabled Fastenal to aggregate data, receive automated alerts, and build custom analytics. The results were significant, including an 11% increase in machine utilization, 305 production hours saved, and 150,000 more parts produced. The investment paid for itself in under 30 days.

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