Case Study: Mayville Engineering Company achieves 15% uptime increase with MachineMetrics

MEC Drives Bottom Line Impact with MachineMetrics

Mayville Engineering Company (MEC), a major metal fabricator, faced significant challenges in accurately monitoring machine uptime and quantifying the root causes of downtime across its facilities. Their manual, paper-based data collection methods were time-consuming and unreliable, preventing them from identifying their biggest opportunities for improvement and justifying capital investments. To solve this, MEC partnered with the vendor MachineMetrics and implemented its Industrial IoT platform for automated machine monitoring and data collection.

MachineMetrics provided a solution that automated data collection and gave operators tablets to categorize downtime reasons in real-time. This implementation led to a culture of continuous improvement and provided management with actionable, dollar-valued insights. The results were substantial, with MEC achieving a 10-15% increase in overall uptime and a 15-20% gain in efficiency, equivalent to adding almost an entire free production shift. The system also strengthened customer relationships by providing impressive, real-time demonstrations of operational control.

Mayville Engineering Company

Michael Wisnefsky

Engineering Manager