Investment in software to collect productivity data allows this Wisconsin stamper to find and fix press-utilization problems. Is it possible to be too lean? This is what the recently installed data-collection software at Waukesha Tool Stamping of Sussex, WI, seemed to indicate. Waukesha officials suspected that the company was running a bit too lean, but according to vice president Mike Steger, "We were surprised by how big of an effect it had on our machine uptime."
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