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Christa Brown
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Industrial IoT Dictionary for Manufacturing
Industrial IoT Dictionary for Manufacturing

In the age of Industry 4.0, there are so many buzzwords being thrown around that it’sdifficult to keep track of them all. What’s the difference between Industry 4.0, IIoT, and Digital Transformation? What about Artificial Intelligence vs. Machine Learning? Condition Monitoring vs. Performance Monitoring? Is the Digital Twin your company’s evil replicant or a new way to approach continuous process improvement?One of our Fiix App Exchange partners, MachineMetrics, figured it would be helpful to create “The MachineMetrics IIoT Manufacturing Dictionary: a reference resource for those seeking definition or better understanding of any buzzword, keyword, or term pertaining to the new age of manufacturing”. We’ve attached their Second Edition to this post for your easy reference.Is this dictionary useful to you? If so, this post to let your community know. MachineMetrics CEO, Bill Bither, will be speaking at our upcoming user conference, Fiix Forward 2020!Make better decisions by connecting e

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Christa Brown
Team Fiix
Christa Brown
Team Fiix
Christa BrownFiix Community Team
published in Supercharge your maintenance strategy
Looking at the future of remote work from a different perspective
Looking at the future of remote work from a different perspective

Fiix Director of Strategic Alliances, Sandy D'Souza, participated in a discussion with MachineMetrics VP of Marketing, Graham Immerman, and Founder and Head of Client Strategy at Very, Benjamin Wald, about the future of remote work for manufacturing.In this clip, Graham poses the question, “for some roles, is work from home realistic?” stating that “during times like this” we are forced to determine what jobs that were done manually in the past can be automated, and what tasks that were taken for granted as needed are no longer necessary - what roles should they be looking at and saying, hey, can we maybe take this remote?Ben challenges us to instead look at this question from a different perspective - what jobs can’t go remote - and we may be surprised by what we find when we let go of our preconceived notions about certain jobs.Sandy elaborates on this idea by giving an example in a manufacturing environment where even if you can’t make a particular job fully remote, you can move tow

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Christa Brown
Team Fiix
Christa Brown
Team Fiix
Christa BrownFiix Community Team
published in Supercharge your maintenance strategy
Fiixers react to parts horror stories
Fiixers react to parts horror stories

We recently shared some real-life tales from our Fiix community of storeroom mixups, dustups, and screw-ups, with a few resident Fiix maintenance experts to see how they would react. Can you commiserate, does it make you shake your head, or can you even one-up these tales?

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Christa Brown
Team Fiix
Christa Brown
Team Fiix
Christa BrownFiix Community Team
published in Supercharge your maintenance strategy
Fiix parts forecaster 🆚traditional forcasting methods
Fiix parts forecaster 🆚traditional forcasting methodsBlog

We’ll get straight to the point: Managing parts inventory is a pain in the a$$.Between just-in-time, rolling average, or sawtooth, there’s no perfect method to accurately predict what parts you’ll need on hand. It generally requires hiring an inventory manager, studying models like economic quantity order (EOQ) and lots of spreadsheets.But there’s a better way.Fiix just launched its parts forecaster, which automatically sorts through a bunch of data in your CMMS and helps you find trends so you can keep the right parts on hand. What is the parts forecaster and how is it different? The parts forecaster works with the parts feature in your CMMS. Instead of relying on spreadsheets or complicated inventory models, it uses your real historical data to predict parts use and make inventory recommendations.It’s the first feature built on our Fiix Foresight AI engine. Since it runs on AI, the parts forecaster can look at a lot of data really quickly. And it’s built right into your CMMS, so it t

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