22 Jul The Digital Advantage: How to effectively use the data you’re collecting
“Our vision is to eliminate islands of information by creating a common, open communication standard that all machinery and software providers utilize to share data.”
ERP systems provide direct digital communication, passing work instructions to machinery and providing the ability to go paperless on the shop floor. To this end, companies rush to collect massive amounts of data and place it in the cloud with the mindset of, “once we get the data, we’ll figure out what to do with it.” This sounds like a recipe for failure. Instead, let’s first consider what the vision of a good Fourth Industrial Revolution manufacturing plant would look like for a window and door fabricator.
Read more of FeneTech President & CEO Ron Crowl’s article “The Digital Advantage” in last month’s issue of Window & Door Magazine.
This is the 17th year for the annual conference which began in 2003 with 17 attendees representing 11 companies. Each year has seen the conference grow. Today, Manager of Administrative Services Samantha Hudeck expects between 110 and 120 users representing 50-55 window and door manufacturers and glass fabrication companies to attend the 2019 conference in addition to a number of industry vendors representing companies who do business in fenestration. 
A familiar face at FeneTech, Inc. has both a new and expanded role at the Aurora, Ohio-based company. FeneTech has recently promoted Samantha Hudeck to Manager of Administrative Services, according to president & CEO Ron Crowl. 
