10in6 Resources — Guides, FAQs & Case Studies
Buyer's, engineering and implementation guides, a downtime cost calculator, a glossary, FAQs, short product videos and five customer case studies.
The 10in6 Blog
Articles on OEE, downtime analysis and shop floor data, including how to find where your dashboards and the floor disagree.
Read Articles →How to Choose MES Software
Where to start (OEE vs MES vs CMMS) and 12 questions on fit, integration, adoption, support and risk, with what a good answer sounds like and the red flags.
Read the Guide →PLC to MES Data Collection
Which machine signals you need for OEE, what to do with older machines, how signals become machine states, and how counts survive rollovers, restarts and network drops.
Read the Guide →How to Implement an MES
Why rollouts stall, a week-by-week plan for the first line, what your plant needs to provide, and how to know the pilot worked.
Read the Guide →Downtime Cost Calculator
What an hour of downtime costs one of your lines, per shift and per year, counted the way finance will accept.
Open the Calculator →Manufacturing Glossary
Plain-English definitions of 78+ manufacturing terms, including the origin of the 85% OEE benchmark, Cp vs Cpk, the Six Big Losses, PPAP, FMEA, RCM, TPM, lean methodology, and Canadian customs compliance.
Open the Glossary →Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions about manufacturing data, traceability, IIoT, and how 10in6 fits into your plant environment.
Browse FAQs →Videos
Short overview videos of the 10in6 platform and how each module works.
Watch Videos →Customer Case Studies
Five case studies from manufacturers who implemented 10in6: AMPI, AprilAire, two Tier 1 automotive suppliers and an aluminum extrusion plant.
Read Case Studies →Common questions from manufacturers
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