Let’s say your shift begins at 9 AM, but the raw materials did not arrive on time, and operators are waiting while machines are sitting idle. That’s downtime. Or maybe your maintenance team wasn’t informed that a machine was showing early signs of failure and suddenly broke down mid-shift. That’s downtime too. You know better how much these machines could produce in this time. All the... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-manufacturing-erp-software-reduces-factory-f3bhc/