Even in the Midst of Supply Chain Disruption – What Can You Do NOW to Improve Performance?

Are you feeling pressure to improve performance and production, but struggle knowing where to start?  How can you ensure increased productivity with so many risks and disruptions in the way? […]

Steps to a Successful Smart Manufacturing Journey

Manufacturers are looking to Smart Manufacturing to make business smarter, solve business problems, and show an ROI to fuel future phases. To help ensure early success for smart manufacturing initiatives, […]

Top 5 Smart Manufacturing Trends

Over the past several years, Polytron has implemented many different technologies and solutions for manufacturers across several industries. Smart Manufacturing technologies include IIoT, Smart Sensors, Machine Learning/AI, Block Chain, Smart […]

Wearable Technologies: Using Assisted Reality glasses on the plant floor

“Although I would have said in the early stages of the project that the utter lack of companies and vendors with actual solutions to benchmark and apply created challenges, we […]

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Integrated with Data Management Systems

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a comprehensive, non-hierarchical approach to equipment maintenance that maximizes Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in safe working environments. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) measures the percentage of […]

Polytron, Inc. Announces Appointment as Gold Tier TrakSYS™ Solutions Partner

Highest Tier is Designed to Help Customers Identify Experts in the Implementation and Management of Solutions Based on TrakSYS™ Duluth, GA, January 31, 2018 – Polytron, Inc. today announced it […]

RFID Implementation Delivers Product Tracking & Inventory Control

RFID Implementation Delivers Product Tracking & Inventory Control The Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) market started off slow in the early 1990s, but is now expected to reach $14.9 billion by 2022 […]

Digital Transformation – What Does It Mean For Your Plant

Polytron predicts that this year will be focused on the trends that begin the journey of digital transformation in manufacturing. It is an approach that is holistic in nature – […]

Back-of-the-Envelope OEE in 5 Steps

We recently received this helpful approach to World Class OEE calculations from Parsec Corporation.  As a Parsec Certified Solution Partner, we wanted to share with you. Back-of-the-Envelope OEE in 5 […]

Polytron Contributes to Food Engineering Magazine

Richard Phillips, PE, PMP recently contributed to a Data Collection brainstorm article in the May issue of Food Engineering Magazine. “Data collection is about manufacturing intelligence – systems that collect […]