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Software Toolbox: Full Stack Industrial AI Starts with the Right Foundation
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By Jay David on Feb 18, 2026 9:45:55 AM
Easy-to-Use Interactive Reports and Dashboards Helps Minimize Downtime
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By Kevin Rutherford on Aug 22, 2019 2:00:00 PM
In the industrial automation industry, more and more companies are looking for ways to increase profitability through minimizing downtime and the lost productivity associated with it.
In this blog post, we discuss how actively monitoring and tracking downtime occurrences can empower you to reduce or even eliminate such productivity-killing situations.
Automated KPI Reporting Helps Maximize Your Productivity
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By Kevin Rutherford on Oct 25, 2018 2:00:00 PM
In the industrial automation industry, more and more companies are looking for progressively better tools to enable their employees to gain insights and improve their business decisions.
In this blog post, we discuss how KPIs and how they’re generated can empower your employees to make smart business decisions to improve your company’s performance results.
Three Key Ways Dream Report provides ROI through Business Intelligence
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By Kevin Rutherford on Jun 28, 2018 2:00:00 PM
Today’s automation professional is tasked not only with continuous improvement of the automated processes he or she is responsible for, but also doing it with less resources and a lower budget. Labor is expensive and over-tasked.
With all of the core business tasks an engineer faces today, they simply may not have the time to sift through the all of the options available in the marketplace for gathering “business intelligence”.
A key buzz term used in the front office of many companies, business intelligence needs on the automation side of an enterprise are centered around Industrial applications. While business intelligence tools are great at dealing with counts and currencies, automation processes need that and more.
In this blog post, we’ll discuss the three main reasons to have a business intelligence solution and, also, the three key ways that Dream Report delivers nicely on the greater needs of hybrid industrial/business data analytics requirements to provide business intelligence for making key decisions regarding a process to save time, money and expenses.
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