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ERP, MES, SCADA, OEE... alphabet soup. Here's the map of how your business systems fit together: one building, five floors.

ERP, MES, SCADA, OEE... alphabet soup. One building, five floors: here's how your business systems fit together.

Let's make more money, cut costs, simplify your business, and free up your time. Max-Business-System is our Apex product: 8 systems in one, with Sales and Marketing up in 2 weeks and the full system in 90 days.

Happy Halloween. Let's talk about the scariest thing in your business: time vampires. They don't bite. They drain you one email and one meeting at a time. So I hired a vampire slayer. Her name is Mel.

ERP and CRM record what happened. SORI records it and learns from it. When a supplier starts running late, your ERP logs every late delivery. It doesn't tell your planner what to do, and it doesn't learn.

Max Comic #001: Time Zombies. We're making marketing fun! Meet Max, our hero at slaying Time Zombies, the busywork that eats your team's hours.

Custom work keeps a plant interesting, and it also means the know-how changes with every job. The plants that do well in high-mix work make sure what one engineer learned on this order is there for the next.

Meet SORI, the system of record that learns. Your data feeds Max Knowledge, Max Improvement turns it into better decisions, and the whole system gets better every hour. Digital Teammates propose. Humans decide.

What happens if Joe leaves? 40 years running maintenance, and his know-how walks out the door. With Max Reliability CMMS, Joe's fixes, repair procedures and work order history get captured while he is still there.

What happens if Joe leaves? Joe runs maintenance. He's been here 40 years. He knows which press bearing runs hot in August, why Line 3 trips on Monday mornings, and the shim trick that keeps the old press running.

My other grandfather owned a soda bottling plant in Lima, Ohio — G.M. Swallow & Sons. Family memory is they ran a Grape Nehi franchise. The soda business boomed in the late twenties because of Prohibition.

Most leadership offsites don't fail in the room. They fail on the way out the door. New Thought Paper: Max Strategy — strategy as an OS, not a deck.

Plant doesn't stop when a machine breaks. It stops when the workaround person calls in sick. Max Knowledge Reliability and CMMS: video, stills, audio capture — a maintenance Digital Helper guides the fix.

Week 2 of running my company with Digital Teammates: 1. Lock every standard to an exact link, never 'the latest.' 2. Steal with pride: each teammate benchmarks itself weekly against the leading practice.

The growth plan is approved on Monday. On Tuesday, your setup lead tells you he retires in March, and the changeover steps for line 3 leave with him. That gap is the enabling layer.

Second shift pulled the work instruction taped to the machine. Engineering had changed it weeks ago. We hear some version of that on almost every plant walk. The fix lives in a shared folder, the floor works from paper.

The same question comes up again and again: 'How do we run this job?' The answer lives in one person's head, and that person is out today.

Before: the layout made sense the day it was built. After: ten years of 'just put it there for now.' Most plants and warehouses don't have a bad layout. They have an old one that grew one decision at a time.