Every shop owner asks, “Is this worth it?” before buying software. Mike Payne asks himself: “Does this get me back at least 1 hour per machine?” When the answer is yes, it pays for itself! Learn more in this webinar: hubs.la/Q04h72fS0 #ManufacturingDigitalWorkflows #DigitalThread #PrecisionManufacturing #MachineMonitoring @HexagonMI

Someone on your team is already acting as the digital thread. Chasing data between systems, reconciling numbers, connecting dots that should never have been disconnected in the first place. That's not a strategy. That's a person burning hours on a problem that technology should be solving. AI can fix it. But not if your data is still living in silos. The breadcrumbs have to be there first. The right programs. The right connections. The right technology partners are pulling it together. When that foundation is in place, you stop reacting and start getting told what's wrong, what to do, and how to get better. You don't have to be fully connected to start. You just have to start. Greg McHale and Hiren Kumbhojkar of @HexagonMI lay out exactly what that looks like in the first session of the Manufacturing Digital Workflows series. See where your shop should start and what's possible when the thread comes together hubs.la/Q04b0Ndn0 #PrecisionManufacturing #AIManufacturing #Datanomix #Hexagon #ManufacturingDigitalWorkflows #DigitalThread #CNCMachining #ShopFloor

Mike Payne bought Hill Manufacturing in 2018 and has since added five shops across four locations over the past eight years! That doesn't happen by accident. And it doesn't happen with disconnected systems. "The ability for my team and me to manage four locations from wherever we are would not happen without this digital thread." Most manufacturers talk about it. Mike built it. Mike sat down with Eric Schnadig on our webinar series with @HexagonMI to tell the whole story. Watch it here: hubs.la/Q04h7chm0 #ManufacturingDigitalWorkflows #DigitalThread #PrecisionManufacturing #MachineMonitoring

Your systems probably aren't talking to each other, but you already know that. The numbers don't lie. 90% of manufacturers are running on disconnected systems. That isn't surprising. It isn't simple to fix. But every day it stays that way, your team is filling the gaps manually, chasing updates, reacting late, and losing margin on jobs that have already shipped. Knowing you're disconnected is one thing. Knowing what to do about it is another. Greg McHale and Hiren Kumbhojkar of @HexagonMI are collaborating to fix exactly that. See what a connected shop actually looks like and what it takes to get there. hubs.ly/Q04b0PmT0 #PrecisionManufacturing #ShopFloor #Datanomix #Hexagon #ManufacturingDigitalWorkflows #CNCMachining #MachineMonitoring #DigitalThread

What you quoted to protect the business, and what you gave the floor to hit. Are they the same number? For most shops, they aren't. And nobody is reconciling the two. So when the job ships, you have no idea if you made money on it or just got lucky. The blueprint makes it from engineering to the work order. But somewhere between the routing steps and the machine, the business plan gets lost in translation. Greg McHale breaks it down with Hiren Kumbhojkar of @HexagonMI in the first session of the Manufacturing Digital Workflows series. Find out where your shop is losing the thread and what to do about it. hubs.la/Q04c3q8M0 #PrecisionManufacturing #ShopFloor #Datanomix #Hexagon #ManufacturingDigitalWorkflows #CNCMachining #JobCosting #MachineMonitoring

If your business plan dies between scheduling and production, you never had one. Target setup time. Target cycle time. Material costs. Tooling assumptions. Labor hours. If those numbers don't make it from the front office to the floor, you never had a shot at the margin you quoted. Most shops lose track of the business plan the moment the job leaves engineering. By the time it hits the machine, it barely resembles what you sold. Greg McHale and Hiren Kumbhojkar of @HexagonMI break it down in the first session of the Manufacturing Digital Workflows series. Find out where your business plan is breaking down and what to do about it. hubs.ly/Q04b0Qs80 #PrecisionManufacturing #JobCosting #Datanomix #Hexagon #ManufacturingDigitalWorkflows #CNCMachining #ShopFloor #MachineMonitoring

If you're using yesterday's data to know when something goes wrong on your production floor, it's already cost you. Mike Payne, President of Hill Manufacturing, decided that wasn't good enough. He shared the whole story with Eric Schnadig during a webinar, and the replay is now ready! What changed when Hill integrated programming, setup, machining, and inspection into a single digital thread? Decision-making got faster. Problems got caught earlier. And the shop was able to scale more efficiently. That's not a small thing. That's the difference between shops that scale and those that can't keep up. Watch the replay here: hubs.ly/Q04byCPc0 #ManufacturingDigitalWorkflows #PrecisionManufacturing #DigitalThread #CNCMachining #MachineMonitoring #ManufacturingTechnology

Your systems aren't broken. They just don't talk to each other. Every day, information gets created at every stage of your process. Engineering builds the plan. Operations runs the job. Quality catches the deviation. But somewhere between planning and execution, the thread snaps. Nobody finds out until it's already cost them. That's what the digital thread is supposed to fix. Not replace your systems. Not add another workflow. Just connect what's already there so the right information gets to the right people at the right time. Greg McHale and Hiren Kumbhojkar broke this down in the first session of the Manufacturing Digital Workflows series with @HexagonMI. Find out where your thread is breaking and what to do about it: hubs.la/Q049k0N30 #PrecisionManufacturing #DigitalThread #Datanomix #Hexagon #MachineMonitoring #ManufacturingDigitalWorkflows #CNCMachining #ShopFloor