Network Modernization
Modernize your network to better connect your workforce with real-time data to make faster, well-informed decisions without sacrificing security and reliability.
Smart Manufacturing
Connect Your Workforce
Make informed decisions, optimize your investments, and achieve successful outcomes in your smart manufacturing journey.
Applications
Two million skilled manufacturing jobs are projected to be unfilled by 2025 (2018 Deloitte Skills Gap Study). Manufacturers can overcome this workforce challenge when they use technology to empower employees to learn new skills faster, pass on knowledge to other workers, and enable them to make better, faster decisions with the right digital information. Transform your manufacturing work environment when you connect your workforce with technology to retain and attract new employees while also enhancing your operational productivity.
Network Modernization
Network Modernization
Modernize your network to better connect your workforce with real-time data to make faster, well-informed decisions without sacrificing security and reliability.
Solutions & Services
- Network Assessment
- Cybersecurity Posture Assessment
- Plant Network Design
- Network Protocol Conversion and Integration
- Software Defined Networking
- Network Cabling and Infrastructure
- Plant Network Switches
- Firewalls
Quality Management & Optimization
Quality Management & Optimization
Simplify your quality control and management workflows by digitizing data collection and paperwork and watch your team more easily achieve their quality KPIs.
Solutions & Services
- Digital Quality Management System
- Batch Control
- Process and Quality Data Collection
- Process and Quality Data Analytics
- Process and Quality Data Visualization
- Instrumentation and Sensing
- Barcode Readers and Printers
Predictive Maintenance
Predictive Maintenance
Optimize your maintenance plan with a mobile friendly CMMS that easily travels with your team from machine to machine and provides the information they need as they perform their daily work. Reduce time and effort to manage inventory by integrating your CMMS to your purchasing system to auto-order parts as the team consumes them.
Solutions & Services
- Digital/Cloud Based Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
- Edge to Cloud Data Connectivity
- Condition Monitoring and Sensing
Production Management
Production Management
Empower your workforce with clear instructions and real-time information to make better operational decisions when you digitize and visualize your manufacturing processes with a manufacturing execution system (MES).
Solutions & Services
- Manufacturing Execution System
- Edge Data Collection and Connectivity
- System Integration Technology
- Barcode Readers
Digitizing Production Data
Digitizing Production Data
Enhance your plant floor employee experience by leveraging technology to digitize manual data entry, analysis, reporting and flow between systems to make your workforce more productive.
Solutions & Services
- Edge Data Collection and Contextualization
- Network and Data Connectivity
- Data Collection Software
- Reporting Software
Insights on connecting your workforce
Learn about our latest smart manufacturing projects, best practices, latest news and more.
Download the report now to find out what’s working for leading manufacturers, benchmark your technology usage, explore best practices and uncover 2024 trends.
Three Big Findings From Our Production Systems Technology Survey
- September 12 , 2023
- Best Practices
- Automation
These insights will help you benchmark your smart manufacturing journey, understand where you may be ahead of your competitors or falling behind, and make the case to leadership when improvements are needed to maintain a competitive edge.
Transform Your Workforce: Real-Life Examples Of Overcoming Workforce Challenges
- August 30 , 2022
- Best Practices
- Automation
Statistics and product information can be useful for understanding workforce management solutions, but sometimes it is most helpful to hear from someone who has successfully overcome their own workforce challenges. Let’s learn from three Van Meter customers who have come up with unique solutions to overcome their workforce challenges:
Do More With Less: Three Tips To Handle The Industrial Workforce Shortage
- July 05 , 2022
- Best Practices
- Automation
By 2025, it is expected that 2.7 million baby boomers will retire, and two million jobs will go unfilled. If this is correct, doing more with less will not just be a goal. It will be a necessity. To prepare for the workforce shortage, while still achieving your company goals, check out these three tips to do more with fewer people.
Industrial Transformation Guide: Is Your Work Flow Efficient From Start to Finish? (Part One)
- April 22 , 2021
- Best Practices
- Automation
Between managing a workforce shortage, competing with businesses around the world and ever-changing customer demands, it’s more important than ever to be nimble and manufacture products quickly, accurately and profitably. That requires reviewing every system, process and person in the plant.
Connect with our experts
Talk to an employee-owner about how we can make a positively powerful impact on your business.
Jackie LaFleur
Smart Manufacturing Manager
Josh Reitz
Smart Manufacturing Business Consultant
Karl Schmidt
Information Solutions Architect
Toni Etten
Information Solutions Architect
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