Turn your machine data into action
Knowing where and how to address losses and leakages is the key to enhancing asset productivity and limiting lost capacity. However, achieving that level of visibility can be challenging.
Without advanced solutions on the shop floor, manufacturers risk missing valuable insight into machine utilization and productivity. And that lack of insight can lead to inaccurate costing, unplanned downtime and lost profitability.
Production monitoring systems and other Industry 4.0 technologies can give you the visibility you need to turn reactive decisions into proactive solutions. They take the data that’s already available to you, from understanding how often your machine is running to when it needs repairs, and let you access it in real time so that you can react faster to issues and prioritize them effectively.
Wipfli’s production monitoring support is ready to help you gain the insights you need to improve productivity, profitability and consistency throughout your business.
Why Wipfli?
Wipfli advisors don’t just understand the solutions we help you implement — we know your industry. With over 90 years of manufacturing experience, we know the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers in a variety of sectors and the solutions that can help you overcome them.
We’re ready to help you implement a production monitoring solution that meets your business objectives. We also go beyond implementation to provide ongoing support that helps you begin leveraging data and applying insights faster.
How we help you
Wipfli’s guided implementations help ensure timely, accurate configurations and enhance management and operator confidence. We support your business with:
- Configuration: Our process-based approach helps us better configure solutions to align with your processes and objectives.
- User training: We support your staff education efforts to help ensure that end users can use the full potential of your new solution.
- Adoption: We help you leverage the data from your solution and incorporate new strategies for performance review into daily management. With our adoption support, you can see greater value from your investment and scale it over time.
Wipfli’s performance analysis support helps you identify more ways to use the data from your real-time production monitoring system.
As part of our remote support we:
- Help increase data literacy across your business through intentional performance analysis.
- Provide regular checkups of your environment and analyze any data trends.
- Provide coaching over your data so that you understand how to apply it to improve performance.
We provide in-person support to help you use real-time data from production monitoring tools to drive operational and process improvements.
As part of our in-person support, we:
- Work closely with your shop floor team to leverage data to drive shop-level improvement.
- Facilitate the changes that need to happen based on the data from your solutions.
- Leverage data to make smarter decisions about operational changes.
- Augment staff where needed to help ensure you have skilled talent in critical areas such as operations, sales or finance.
Wipfli is committed to helping you simplify production data with Intouch, an affordable production monitoring solution that can modernize your factory without a legacy system overhaul.
We’ve been a trusted Intouch implementation partner since 2022, with a track record of delivering productivity insights in days, not weeks or months. Our specialists can help you connect discrete manufacturing equipment to dashboards that measure efficiency, quality and profitability around the clock.
Here is what you can expect from Intouch with the support of Wipfli’s implementation consultants:
- Results: Intouch and Wipfli’s custom dashboard and reporting support help you see data down to the machine, part and shift level, so that you can identify inefficiencies, react faster to downtime events and know exactly how to improve utilization.
- Automation: We help you seamlessly integrate Intouch’s Manufacturing Equipment System with your ERP, enabling you to automate data exchange, eliminate double entries and base decisions on a single source of truth.
- Value: With nearly a century of experience in serving manufacturers, we understand your operations and how to take Intouch beyond hardware to give you full control over your production strategy. We also offer comprehensive services to support successful implementation, from onboarding and leadership training to continuous maintenance.
Our team
Jake R. Rohrer
Jake Rohrer is a manager in Wipfli’s Organizational Performance team, specializing in the manufacturing industry. Working with manufacturers, he seeks to improve operational efficiency by assessing and optimizing. Jake is experienced working with teams across various business units to create synergies and galvanize positive business outcomes. His communication strategy of “seek to learn” allows him to pick up on the root cause of underperformance and tailor unique solutions to meet the needs of his clients.
Brett Polglaze
Brett Polglaze brings over 20 years of experience to Wipfli’s organizational performance management consulting team and has a passion for tackling complex organizational questions. From improving business process flows to assisting clients through complex system selections, his focus has always been to architect solutions that solve critical business issues. He has led all aspects of technology selection, implementation, and operations improvement initiatives.
Laurie Harbour
Laurie Harbour is a partner with more than 35 years of manufacturing and consulting experience. Prior to joining Wipfli, she was the co-owner of Harbour Results, Inc., and has spent her career helping clients develop strategies, improve operations, reduce risk and optimize business performance. Clients benefit from Laurie’s ability to work with leadership teams to assess the current state of their business and provide strategic and operation recommendations for improvement.
Mike Devereux, CPA, CMP
Mike Devereux has identified millions of dollars in tax incentives for manufacturing clients, led hundreds of research and development (R&D) tax credit study engagements and demonstrated leadership and exceptional judgment in the tax structuring of various acquisitions. He speaks nationally to various professional and industry trade organizations and associations about opportunities to reduce federal and state tax liabilities and has written dozens of articles for trade publications.
Kate E. Brown
Kate Brown is a Business Intelligence and Analytics Manager in Wipfli’s Business Solutions Group, she is focused on designing and building analytics platforms that improve organizational performance and drive actionable analytics for our diverse clientele.
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