Entries by Chris Moore

Remote Facility and Warehouse Monitoring

  If you need to monitor the HVAC systems, boilers, air compressors, and any other piece of equipment at large warehouses or storage facilities, Caddis is the perfect machine monitoring system. Caddis connects directly to these machines to allow you a view of one facility or an entire network of facilities. You will have real-time […]

Work Place Distractions

10 Workplace Distractions And How to Manage As we slowly transition back to our offices and “new normal”, we’ll need to once again get used to working around and with other people. We were finally getting into the groove of working from home and managing our pet, kids, and spouse distractions, and now we are […]

Tips For Successfully Working From Home

    Have a routine. Get up and get going. Take that shower, do your workout, and get dressed for work! It’s so tempting to stay in your sweat pants and just roll out of bed to your laptop. Trust me when I say you’ll feel better, be more productive, and have more energy if you stick with […]

Achieve Work-Life Balance With Caddis’ Machine Monitoring System

We’ve all heard the buzz term “work-life balance”. What is work-life balance, and what does a machine monitoring system have to do with it?   Work-life balance means different things to different people and industries. To some, it means having time for family and friends. To others, it means having a flexible work schedule or […]

Who is CADDIS?

Caddis Systems evolved out of necessity. The system’s concept was hatched to become a leading innovator in machine monitoring software and utilization. We observed a growing need for real-time data monitoring to help businesses collect quality data to increase productivity. The “old” model of machine monitoring is dependent upon human and manual observations, which creates […]

Machine Preventative Maintenance

 The Caddis device is capturing each machine cycle, as well as sending temperature data with alarms set “on” to send text/email if the temperature exceeds 140 degrees. The devices that are attached to the machines, and sending this data, are very robust, easy to integrate, and easy to scale throughout a facility which may have […]

Will the Coronavirus Impact Your Business?

The Coronavirus outbreak could impact more than just health. It has the potential to impact global economics and manufacturing worldwide. North America and Chinese business manufacturing are undeniably connected. Now, with China and the world shutting down factories, we will see an impact on business and manufacturing in the US.   The Question? How does […]

Holiday Machine Monitoring

With the holidays upon us and staff schedules changing, it’s very important your production environment remains efficient. With the Caddis Machine Monitoring System, you have the ability to monitor one machine, one department or your entire operation from any device. Everyone needs a vacation to recharge and spend quality time with friends and family so […]

Measuring Machine Up-time by Measuring Conveyor Speed

Monitoring a machine’s up-time can be extremely valuable data when analyzing the overall utilization of your production environment. However, this can be extremely difficult when your machine is technically running all day but at different rates . CADDIS Systems recently encountered this hurdle while working with a packaging company in Wisconsin. Our customer is a […]

CADDIS Case Study – Jim Cole – Production Manager

Jim Cole is a Production Manager with LeClaire Manufacturing and has been utilizing the CADDIS device for the past two years. Jim currently has CADDIS monitoring  Permanent Mold, Sinto, CNC’s and Shot Blasting machines throughout his department.  CADDIS has helped Jim increase overall productivity and better manage  start times, cycle times, up-time and overall machine […]