Electro-Matic Visual Blog

Since 1992, MBF Industries have been designing and manufacturing specialty vehicles for law enforcement, and government and private agencies throughout the world. MBF has some banking customers that use their trucks as mobile banks for promotional purposes and they wanted to integrate an LED Display into the truck to help with its messaging. 

DTE Energy is a Detroit-based diversified energy company involved in developing and managing energy-related businesses and services in the United States.

Downtime is a serious threat to any manufacturing business. One of the most dreaded scenarios within a manufacturing plant is that if one area backs up, it can have a snowball effect on other areas waiting for the completion of prior processes to deliver parts to them. The old saying “time is money” is very true in these manufacturing plant situations. The longer amount of time it takes to complete processes and finish products, the more money it costs to get those products out the door. When you reduce downtime in manufacturing and the amount of time that people or machines are idle, it will be more efficient for the business’s bottom line. Learn how to improve manufacturing efficiency and downtime with the nine tips below:

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). They are a welcoming community of believers in Jesus Christ who witness their faith by praying together, serving together, and living generously together. 

Visual factory is an industry term to explain how data and information are transmitted in a lean manufacturing workplace. In a lean manufacturing environment, time and resources are dedicated to projecting information in real time to all levels of your organization, allowing all to obtain a quick sense of the business.

When driving down The M5 Expressway, you can't miss the Harley Davidson's illuminated banner. They reached out to Electro-Matic not only to improve their mechanical service area with LED lighting as well as highlight and illuminate the banner at the 275 and 96 interchanges.

LED lighting has various benefits compared to fluorescent lights and metal halide bulbs. LEDs provide better energy usage and maintenance as well as a better quality light, so they are perfect for large, open facilities. There are numerous benefits of using LED warehouse lighting that most don’t immediately realize. Much of this has to do with the technological differences between LED lights and conventional lighting.

Adventure Centre located in Marquette, Michigan is one of the largest single-line Arctic Cat dealers in the nation. Servicing all brands of Sleds, ATVs, and Side by Sides, they maintain one of the highest C.S.I. (Customer Satisfaction Index) scores Arctic Cat has in the nation.

Have you recently evaluated how you can improve productivity in your factory? Listed below are some simple suggestions of how using Visual Factory LED Displays (often called Andon Displays) can improve factory productivity.