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High mix, low volume across the entire production flow For European manufacturers, competing on cost alone is hard. In high-mix, low-volume production, a large part of the competitive advantage lies in the ability to respond to custom requests, adapt to customer needs and deliver with short and reliable lead times. This requires looking at the… View Article

A practical guide to choosing based on the problem you want to solve Picture two very common scenes. You’re at the self-checkout in Decathlon or Zara: you set your items down and, in a few seconds, the system recognizes what’s in your basket. That’s the logic of RFID: understanding which objects are passing through a… View Article

In today’s industry, knowing where has become just as critical as knowing what or how. Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) provide precise, real-time location data for assets, people, and materials, enabling businesses to streamline processes, enhance safety, and reduce downtime. But RTLS isn’t just theory. This guide is built on hands-on experience implementing these systems in… View Article

Operational guide · The molding world For mold makers · For contract molders At Komete we look at the molding world from two sides: those who build molds and those who use them to produce. Two different trades, two different cycles and in both cases our applications start from the same question, the one nobody… View Article

In factories that produce many variants in small batches, the real hidden cost is not the idle machine, but the idle order. The more codes, routings, and urgent jobs increase, the more the coordination cost grows non-linearly: a significant portion of lead time is not processing, but waiting, searching for information, and replanning. ERP and… View Article

You walk into a job shop factory. Metal fabrication, precision machining, special components — the sector doesn’t matter. They say they have a MES. They bought it, configured it, trained the staff. Then you talk to the people on the shop floor and find out that order progress is tracked on a shared Excel file,… View Article