Tag: Industry40
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The five-second rule usually means: But in a visual factory, the five-second rule means something else – Can someone understand your display in five seconds or less? If I walk past a screen on the plant floor, I should be able to tell: If I need to stop, squint, study a chart, read six widgets,…
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Seriously. A butt was once a legitimate unit of measure used for large casks of wine. A wine butt was commonly around 126 gallons. This got me thinking about something we run into all the time when working with manufacturing data: every organization has its own language. Sometimes it’s jargon. Sometimes it’s units of measure. Pounds. Kilograms. Linear…
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If you grew up playing Red Light, Green Light, you already understood one of the most effective forms of data visualization before you ever heard the term “data visualization.” 🟢 Green meant GO.🔴 Red meant STOP. That was it. No manual. No training session. No dashboard legend. If you twitched after someone yelled “Red light!” there was…
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Let’s start with something we can probably all agree on: spaceships are cool. As we were building API functionality into DataCaster, we needed a data-rich subject with a reliable API we could use for testing. Enter: the International Space Station (ISS). Why not have our test API track a spaceship traveling around the Earth at roughly…