Confidence in machine tool build quality has risen to the point that there is now a strong drive towards fully traceable 'on-machine' measurement for process control and verification. This in turn has opened the door for 24-hour, seven-day-a-week unmanned machining strategies.
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The Engineer - 14 August 2007

The pressure is on UK manufacturing to plan ahead to ensure competitiveness.

It is a familiar story: UK Manufacturing loses out to low-cost eastern Europe or Far East competition. However, while some just shrug their shoulders, others are looking to computer based solutions that will enable them to meet the threat head on.
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Machinery Market Magazine - July 2007

There is so much more to be had from electronic production management systems than meets the eye. Andrew Ward explains.

Doubling the percentage of deliveries that meet their due date, cutting delivery lead times from months to weeks, and maximising production: stuff of dreams? What's extraordinary is not just that British manufacturers are achieving exactly this today, but that it's largely made possible by a few wires and some pcs.
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Manufacturing Computer Solutions Magazine - Jan 2007

Encountering more than 400 works orders a month involving some 65 machine tools plus sundry operations such as deburring and outsourced subcontract requirements, juggling priorities and general production demands was becoming a time consuming nightmare for precision gear specialist and subcontract machinist Gibbs Gears.  Today, however, after installing Seiki Systems’ Real Time Scheduling system, managing director Reece Garrod says: “We can plan and give customers realistic lead and delivery times, detect immediately when things are not going to plan, determine the impact of any changes we want to make to production and make sound management decisions based on factual information.”
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Production Engineering Solutions Magazine - August 2006

The drive is on for manufacturing companies to reduce stocks and batch sizes to meet 'made to order' targets and this means faster changeovers are required as well as greater levels of flexibility. But the downside of moving towards smaller batches is lower utilisation of costly production equipment due to more frequent stoppages. More than ever, an efficient shop-floor data management system can prove to be a worthy investment as Seiki Systems' chief executive David Moody advises EMP.
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Electronics Manufacturing Products - June 2006

A dynamic interactive demonstration in 'real time' showing how supplier collaboration can deliver 'in-process' improvements and machine tool monitoring benefits is to be performed at MACH 2006
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Subcontractingtalk - 3 May 2006

The effective distribution and modification of CNC programs prove crucial to operational efficiency.

How do you control, monitor and regulate the creation, distribution and modification of thousands of CNC part programs for 28 machine tools in a busy production-machining environment, while at the same time maintaining the security and traceability demanded by the medical industry?
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Machinery Market - May 2006

A Networked DNC system that optimises utilisation and productivity of 10 CNC machines by ensuring the efficient management, control, and traceability of all part programs
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The hard work of getting good data from the shop floor mustn't be underestimated, says Andrew Ward. But neither must the potential for serious benefits

Manufacturers have improved productivity immensely - in one case here by 54% - by collecting very simple data from their shop floors. Some have even recorded siginificant productivity hikes without actually doing anything with the data they collected!

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Scheduling and Monitoring system helps Kenard to maximise productivity and machine utilisation.
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Machinery Market - November 2005

Real-time shop-floor data collection, scheduling and performance analysis offer dramatic improvements in productivity

Independent article written by Colin Granger
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Machinery Market - April 2005

"A three-way software development, including Seiki Systems, aims to deliver totally integrated manufacturing control for SME's, helping to create the paperless plant."

Mike Nash reports
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Machinery - June 2004

The progressive installation of networked manufacturing software (NMS), supplied by Seiki Systems of Brighton, has proven to be a major contributor to hiking production efficiency to over 72 per cent at Integrated Hydraulics based in Warwick.
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For Colin Smith at HPC Engineering, a relatively modest investment in Seiki Systems machine monitoring system has been repaid many times over.
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As part of the drive towards order-driven lean manufacturing, the Seiki Systems DNC system at Parker Hannifin of Rotherham has speeded up CNC program downloading considerably.
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Seiki Systems' DNC machine management products should appeal to those who value content over packaging, results over style. The company's focus is increasing machine tool utilisation through the application of effective software" Alan Allcock
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Machinery and Production Engineering - October 2000

"I believe it is only a matter of time before every 'go ahead' company in the UK has implemented such a system" Martin Oakham
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Metalworking Production

"this really is the shape of things to come; the question you should be asking yourself is - can I afford to do without it" Martin Oakham
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Metalworking Production - July 2000

Manufacturers may investigate, and suppliers develop and promote e-commerce and 'cyber factories'. But what are the realities of using e-commerce in manufacturing?
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Metalworking Production