Entries by Joshua Ray

Feb-Mar 2013 CNC West

CNC West Magazine Be sure to pick up the Feb-Mar 2013 copy of CNC West Magazine and see our latest ad on adding wireless, ethernet or USB to any CNC. More about our Hardware services: Do you have a small shop? A large shop? Regardless of your number of machines, or types of controls, SFA has you […]

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Predator PDM v10.0.191 is released

Predator PDM Enterprise has enhanced the shop floor dialogs with New Machine Events and Tracker style Check-In and Check-Out dialogs. In addition, the following improvements have been made: January 17th 2013 – Predator PDM v10.0.191 is released Added -UNRELEASED to change manufacturing and quality status workflow Improved online help Improved -viewvaultitem command line to support […]

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Manufacturing News – February 2013

Manufacturing News – February 2013 See our latest hardware ad in February issue of Manufacturing News (AKA MFG News) – one ad is Here (Midwest Manufacturing News)and the other is Here (Southwest Manufacturing News). More about the hardware solutions we are advertising: Do you have a small shop? A large shop? Regardless of your number of machines, or types of […]

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Scytec DataXchange Silver Released

Scytec DataXchange Silver Released Collect user defined Planned and Unplanned Downtimes with bar code scanners. More Details More about machine monitoring through Scytec: Choose from On-Premise or Cloud Based As low as $45 monthly per machine for Cloud option Real-time data collection from any age CNC controls & equipment Unlimited reporting, charting licenses & users View […]

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SFA Offers Predator Basic Machine Monitoring Software

Predator Software Machine Monitoring Shop Floor Automations (SFA), a distributor and service center for Predator Software Inc., has announced the Basic version of Predator’s Manufacturing Data Collection (MDC) Software. “For many years now, Predator has offered their fully automated, real time MDC system for larger corporations,” said a company spokesperson. “Now they have released the […]

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Predator Software drops Windows 2000 Support

No Windows 2000 Support from Predator Software Predator Software has been supporting Microsoft’s Windows 2000 since it was released to manufacturing back on December 1999. Unfortunately, after almost 12 years, Predator will no longer be able to provide day-to-day support for their applications on this platform as of August 2012. However, support is ongoing to upgrade Predator […]

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SFA in August Modern Machine Shop

Modern Machine Shop Shop Floor Automations was in Modern Machine Shop for our Cloud-Based software Tracks Cycle Time. Shop Floor Automations’ cloud-based Software as a Service (Saas) data collection software is designed to capture utilization, downtime and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) information without upfront purchase costs or the need to install or maintain database or […]

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SFA Software featured in Manufacturing Engineering Media

Manufacturing Engineering Media We at Shop Floor Automations were interviewed in the July 2012 edition of www.ManufacturingEngineeringMedia.com for our Manufacturing Software. The Real-Time Viewer application, which can be customized by Scytec, offers user and company based configurable dashboards for shop floor monitoring of OEE data. Read more…. “We’ve looked at certain solutions that don’t meet all of […]

SFA is hiring in Houston, TX

Shop Floor Automations in Texas We are looking for a quality candidate for our Texas Support Department. The Field Technician will be based out of Houston TX or Dallas TX. For more information, go to About Us>Careers We are also offering a $250 referral reward to the person that brings us our next great employee! More about […]

Shop Floor Automations Helps Manufacturers Perform Preventive Maintenance with Bigfoot CMMS

CMMS from Shop Floor Automations Shop Floor Automations, a DNC networking, communications and automation solutions provider, announced that its manufacturing customers are gaining full control of plant floor maintenance operations by using newly enhanced Bigfoot CMMS. “ Typically maintenance operations teams try to keep up with equipment repairs, and the barrage of mobile calls and […]