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Explore the differences between Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in manufacturing

Insert machine downtime reason as a Maintenance job. To identify the cause of a machine’s downtime and prevent it from occurring again.

Streamline manufacturing data collection with GlobalReader Google Sheets Connector. Transfer data into Power BI, Google Data Studio, and similar tools.

In the manufacturing industry, there are a variety of factors that lead to machine downtime. Here is a quick guide how to analyse and minimise these.

In the manufacturing industry, there are a variety of factors that lead to machine downtime. Here is a quick guide how to analyse and minimise these.

Manufacturing data collection – how important is to have the information and why should every business collect it. Find out here

Guide how to do it. Also what are the notification for a certain interruption reason use cases. You can also trigger a notification chains.

Quick system setup provides first initial wins on the road of increasing overall manufacturing equipment efficiency. One step closer to eliminating bottlenecks.

In what situations there is a need for transparency in the factory and how to achieved it. Easily executable solutions – check it out.

Factory maintenance – why it is important to to those at the correct time and what is the best software to have and overview.

Take a read about what sparked the Factory digitalization podcast’s creation and Indrek Jaal’s vision for it.

GlobalReader delivers monitoring devices to manufacturers’ doorstep and empowers them with knowledge on how to make the installation.

Customise Analytics sidebar to your needs and access most important factory reports with just one click.

The Federation of Estonian Engineering Industry recognised the best on its 85th-anniversary ceremony with a virtual industrial conference.

GlobalReader and Insecon have teamed up to provide the best service to manufacturers in Finland.

Move factory performance and shopfloor data from ERP system to GlobalReader or vice versa.

Our software enables manufacturers easily, with just two clicks, export the data they need. Check the video on how to do it.

How to get more out of your factory tracking tool. Check out these 5 easily implemented ideas.

We are super happy to welcome Alari to our team! In this small introduction Alari speaks about his work experience, thoughts on teamwork and production digitalisation.

Use case from construction chemistry manufacturer:
The factory makes product samples for labs and archives – this reduces the total count of pieces produced on the line, but are not technically counted as scrap. Scrap is a product with a defect. In this case scrap(quality) influences also their bonus system. When . . .

Why knowing interruptions occurrences and reasons are crucial for manufacturing efficiency. Read GlobalReader success story in Ojala Estonia OÜ.

Third chapter teaches how to react as fast as possible. Reduce avoidable machine stops, increase production output and keep up with the production plan.

Schedule maintenance based on real machine work. Collect data from the machine and do the job when needed – no unnecessary machine breakdowns or maintenance jobs.
Here is a guide – how to schedule maintenance job based on actual operation of the machine.

Give your team a real-time insight into how the production is progressing on the big screen with customisable visual graphs. Improve productivity and change the culture of manufacturing business.

GlobalReader Analytics gives insight what is really going on and data about your machine. Second chapter teaches you how to optimise machine speed.

Analytics is the core part of our eco-system and has been designed to meet data analysis needs from Shopfloor manager to company CEO and at the same time provides real-time data.

Shift changed, no problem.
Here is guide – how to edit or delete shifts.

Indrek Jaal (GlobalReader CEO) and Derek Vaide (Ojala Group CEO) discussed, on the example of Ojala Group, why start with GlobalReader and what its benefits are for manufacturing companies.
Check the video →

Set up your own TV view and get a real time overview of your production on the big screen.

Machine is working, but the target is not reached?
How to make most out of machine active time?
We have put together Efficiency book, the first chapter teaches you how to maximise production machine active time.

Yes, this is possible!
Guide for you – How to get one undefined interruption into two defined interruptions.

The webinar was conducted by Indrek Jaal – CEO of GlobalReader and Triin Ploompuu – Member of the Board at the Federation of Estonian Engineering Industry.
Easy five step digitalisation roadmap for manufacturing businesses.

If you use planer in your production – what data and info you can collect. Take steps towards greater flexibility, sustainability and productivity.

The wave of new technologies opens up opportunities for companies to take steps towards greater flexibility, sustainability and productivity. Industry 4.0 is also simplifying new ways for humans and machines to work together, allowing businesses to achieve greater insights, reduce the risk of error and make better decisions.

Triin Ploompuu, Member of the Board at the Federation of Estonian Engineering Industry:
“We can’t see it ourselves, but digitalisation in Estonian industry is actually fast!“

Engineering industry is considered to be the most important health indicator of a country,
since this is the sector that produces articles for all other sectors.
We asked Triin Ploompuu, a Member of the Board at the Federation of Estonian Engineering Industry,
about the state of affairs in the Estonian engineering industry following the coronavirus-induced emergency situation,
as well as the dangers and opportunities regarding exiting the crisis.

Our innovative development team always thinks of new ideas.

Yesterday they came up with the idea of how to measure soil temperature in a greenhouse.
Yes, we know there are different ways to do that, but the coolest way is to do measures with our blackbox!

Here you can read the article (magazine “Tööstus & Tootmine”), where Indrek Jaal shared his thoughts and suggestions on how
to handle in difficult periods and increase the efficiency of your production!

REAL-TIME MONITORING SOLUTIONS WILL HELP

A real-time monitoring solution is a very good complementation to the classic Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) which is already used by numerous manufacturing companies in Estonia. While ERP is mostly designed for integration of fields of activity such as sales, marketing and finances which involve the company’s office, the aim of real-time monitoring solutions is to increase the efficiency of manufacturing. Real-time monitoring provides an instant overview of how the production machinery is operating at any given point in time.

Free ONE_HOUR webinar to suppliers of maintenance and equipment

#2 How GlobalReader ONLINE MAINTENANCE TOOL can plan machine
maintenance more efficiently and remotely?

Manage daily task of your maintenance workforce and never again do maintenance on your key
machines based on a schedule, use the machines worktime to plan maintenances.

Free ONE_HOUR webinar for manufacturers



#1 How GlobalReader planner can help you schedule your work remotely

Date  31.03 and Time: 12.00

If you have to choose a weapon to fight with the virus – we recommend distance.
Sound like crazy men talk, but this is true – you can fit your factory easily into your pocket!

Working remotely is something that most of us are going to experience over the next couple of weeks or even months.
However, working remotely for more than one or two days is a new practice for most people and organizations.

We know these are troubling times. Overseeing the factory from a distance is more needed at this point than ever.
Canceled meetings and group discussions are bad for the business and to the customers.
Teamwork is disrupted and deadlines are overdue!

We are growing and hiring! We need you EXPERIENCED SOFTWARE ENGINEER 4.0

Main role is to ensure the team, especially OEE team (Overall Efficiency Engineer) and aftercare understand the needs of the client,
along with hopefully giving assistance with advice how to grow the business to the targets set.

What prompted the need to increase your production efficiency? What were the challenges your company was dealing with before you started using GlobalReader’s products and services?

There were no specific challenges in particular before we started collaborating with GlobalReader. We just realised that with GlobalReader we would gain so many new possibilities by monitoring our production line better.

One of our clients CFO had the most troubling issue.

Since operators wrote down production feedback on paper, the amount of work being done and the time spent on one product was very hard to get and analyse. Introducing our planning tool (online work scheduling tool) besides machine
work time monitoring gave an unexpected result…

Here you can read why we gave up salesmen, how this move affects our results and
what benefits do our customers get!

A real dialogue with a client!

Client: We would like to increase our productivity and therefore thought that we should also buy a fifth machine.

Us: At the moment you’ve got four machines, and you’d like to purchase a new machine to increase your production volume?
Client: Yes.

Us: Let’s just have a look at how effective have your machines been so far.

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We received feedback from one of our good clients on how simple machine tracking
helped him catch mistakes that line workers were making with a simple tweak!

We are looking for a software engineer to join our team!

You are a good match if:
– you have experience in software engineering in any language
– you can write reliable code with security and scalability in mind
– you have interest in IoT and machine learning
– you have interest in robotics, embedded systems Arduino etc.

GlobalReader is making production more efficient! Workplace automation is the first step in getting machines to communicate with each other, says GlobalReader founder and CEO Indrek Jaal.

Take 2 min and see what Indrek tells you and remember every production can do more with data!

“My operators are happy to use such easy system and finally we know what is going on! In real time!”