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05/03/2022

We're excited to announce the formation of Blue Fox Automation! This new organization grew out of the great work of our smart manufacturing team in addressing the specific needs of their industrial customers.

"Manufacturers need focused partners with specific skillsets and a vision toward the future. Forming Blue Fox Automation allows us to build the team that can provide the focus and services they need."
— Ron Stuver, Owner, Blue Fox Automation

oos will partner with Blue Fox Automation to provide software solutions from the manufacturing floor to the enterprise level. We look forward to the ongoing collaboration!

02/02/2022

We're thrilled to have Gabrielle Fellows join our team as a Software Engineer! 👩‍💻

Gabby's prior experience as both a journalist and data analyst lend her to have a unique approach to problem-solving and an eye for the fine details. She holds a BA in Journalism from Youngstown State University and graduated from the Cleveland Tech Elevator's coding bootcamp.

Welcome, Gabby!

01/11/2022

Too many businesses think software projects are like open heart surgery: costly, risky, no fun—something that's done TO you just keep you alive.

Instead of spending multiple years and millions of dollars just to keep up with changing technologies, the most competitive businesses in 2022 are looking for software partners to actually be PARTNERS—not surgeons!

With 30 years of business and information technology leadership experience, Dave share's why he's excited about this new era of custom business technology.

01/05/2022

🐟 This is what a control system engineer’s fish tank looks like.

Yep, that’s Justin's ordinary aquarium made SMART using Innius and an Allen-Bradley Micro 850 PLC system. It has a temperature sensor, water level sensor, and relay outputs to control the heater, air bubbler, and lights. The lights are on a schedule and the control system maintains the tank temperature within one degree of the setpoint.

Collecting the sensor values and other PLC data is simple—the system is connected via Wi-Fi and using standard technologies such as MQTT, data can be displayed in a dashboard and on a mobile app. Configuring this using the innius platform was straightforward through a web page interface.

One might even say the setup went quite swimmingly! 🐠 Nice work, Justin! We can’t wait to see how this thing scales! 🙄 (Ok no more fish puns.)

Is your machine monitoring platform simple enough that you’d set it up at home? Why not⁉️

01/04/2022

Meet Justin, Senior Controls Engineer at oos. He knows how to connect devices and collect purposeful data from the edge. He understands industrial automation, controls, and communications. It’s even rumored that he plays the banjo... 🪕

We asked Justin about all this and more in a brand new article!

Meet Justin! He's a Senior Controls Engineer at oos, working with industrial automation for process control and machine control system integrators. We sat down with Justin to talk about who he is, what capabilities he brings to oos, and the future of manufacturing.

12/21/2021

Cloud-based is so easy to set up it's almost like magic... 🪄 Take it from a guy who knows a thing or two about magic:

"These oos fellows really can turn any old thing into a smart device—even my trusty 1837 Albany Cutter! And I thought I was high-tech 75 years ago when I added the Claus-o-Meter gauge—now look at my dashboard! Elon would be proud! So all you good boys and girls out there, don't you fret about supply chain shortages and shipping bottlenecks. Thanks to oos, you can expect timely deliveries from the North Pole this year!"
— K. Kringle

Check out the full case study on smart data at Claus Industries:
https://www.oos-studio.com/articles/case-study-claus-industries

From all of us at oos, we hope your holiday season hits all the right metrics! 🎄

12/15/2021

You know you need data from your devices, but what data? Who needs to see it and why?

Blaine Pennypacker talks about how oos helped Ecore answer these key questions.

12/13/2021

The world's oldest toy manufacturer needed to see production data, and with oos, they were able to make it happen! 🎅

With new insight into their OEE (Overall Elf Efficiency), Claus Industries is prepared to pull off their most productive season ever!

The team at oos recently implemented a smart data solution at the world's oldest continuously operating toy manufacturer: Claus Industries. Located at the heart of a charming Arctic Ocean ice sheet, Claus Industries has been producing handmade toys for centuries, with a global distribution model tha...

12/08/2021

"It was like heaven on earth!" 😍

Wanda Welch is the Research and Development Manager at Ecore. We loved hearing her enthusiastic reaction to seeing machine data!