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At SQUEAKS we provide manufacturing software
products and platforms for global manufacturing companies and industrial OEMs.
Our software products assist our customers in
achieving strategic business objectives for production efficiency, quality improvement, cost reduction, process control, along with team messaging and collaboration.
SQUEAKS gives you the power to personalizes the information your receive, making it easy to find the answers you want. With SQUEAKS, you receive only the information that is important to you!
Trust us with your communication platform like many other well-known companies have.
SQUEAKS is located in Louisville, Kentucky.
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At SQUEAKS we provide manufacturing software
products and platforms for global manufacturing companies and industrial OEMs.
Our software products assist our customers in
achieving strategic business objectives for production efficiency, quality improvement, cost reduction, process control, along with team messaging and collaboration.
SQUEAKS gives you the power to personalizes the information your receive, making it easy to find the answers you want. With SQUEAKS, you receive only the information that is important to you!
Trust us with your communication platform like many other well-known companies have.
SQUEAKS is located in Louisville, Kentucky.
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At SQUEAKS we provide manufacturing software
products and platforms for global manufacturing companies and industrial OEMs.
Our software products assist our customers in
achieving strategic business objectives for production efficiency, quality improvement, cost reduction, process control, along with team messaging and collaboration.
SQUEAKS gives you the power to personalizes the information your receive, making it easy to find the answers you want. With SQUEAKS, you receive only the information that is important to you!
Trust us with your communication platform like many other well-known companies have.
SQUEAKS is located in Louisville, Kentucky.
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At SQUEAKS we provide manufacturing software
products and platforms for global manufacturing companies and industrial OEMs.
Our software products assist our customers in
achieving strategic business objectives for production efficiency, quality improvement, cost reduction, process control, along with team messaging and collaboration.
SQUEAKS gives you the power to personalizes the information your receive, making it easy to find the answers you want. With SQUEAKS, you receive only the information that is important to you!
Trust us with your communication platform like many other well-known companies have.
SQUEAKS is located in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Information Powered
Best-in-class manufacturers rely on IGear software to
drive mission-critical production applications – and optimize employee productivity.
Closing the Gap
IGear closes the gap between ...
Information Technologies (IT) and Operational Technologies (OT)
Office Workers and Frontline Workers
... to automate complex manufacturing processes and empower decision-makers.
Platforms
CONNECT - Data Service Platform
CONNECT is a manufacturing data service platform that provides ETL/ELT capabilities among a diverse set of technologies to include factory floor devices, applications, and data structures to enable on-prem solutions and a “pipe” between the factory floor and the cloud.
CONNECT leverages open standard and native protocols to enable both the control of a process in a mission critical capacity as well as the movement of data between systems in real-time or batch. CONNECT can run on-prem, hybrid (Edge), or in the cloud depending on application requirements and has become a standard platform among leading companies due to its proven track record for reliability, fault tolerance, and flexibility for more than 20 years.
SQUEAKS - Modern Messaging Platform
SQUEAKS is a messaging/communication platform built for the plant floor. When events happen, SQUEAKS kicks in – directing valuable information to the right people on modern communication devices to shorten response times. SQUEAKS drives action and accountability. As the saying goes,
“the squeaky wheel gets the grease”. SQUEAKS demands attention – ensuring critical alerts cannot
be ignored. From “Got It” to “Complete”, user-defined workflows provide guidance and escalation
rules draw attention to problems that have gone on too long or need additional expertise to
resolve. SQUEAKS maintains a digital trail of every action taken to advance continuous improvement discussions.
With SQUEAKS running as an app on the Microsoft Teams platform, everything in SQUEAKS is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Teams. So, if you have an alert from an HMI system or PLC that needs to be escalated up the chain of command, these messages are now integrated into a Teams chats/conversation to advance collaboration between front line and office employees
ONE-SOURCE - Operational Visibility Platform
One-Source is a portal into your plant’s operation – providing visibility into what’s happening now and aligning employees around team and organizational goals. One-Source drives results and builds culture. One-Team, One-Source™.
From metrics and dashboards that can be displayed on modern production displays to stand-up huddle meetings that are conducted at the line on interactive, touchscreen displays, One-Source is transforming visual communication from paper to digital. One-Source organizes all of your important KPI reports, dashboards, training videos, and troubleshooting documents in one place, creating a centralized library of invaluable information. One-Source then goes one step further, making it easy to access and share synchronized information across your entire workforce. One-Source reduces the time between an event and decision-making. One-Source connects employees to your company’s success and helps employees solve problems quicker, which is invaluable given the workforce challenges facing manufacturers today.
MES Solutions
ASSIST - Product Traceability & Process Interlocking
ASSIST is IGear’s solution for contextualizing real-time, serialized manufacturing data to include individual products, consumed components, cycle anomalies, associated process data, defect tracking, and operator information. The result is a digital, on-demand traceability and genealogy birth certificate for each product.
ASSIST can interface with every control system and machine in the process to validate and control the flow of good products from machine-to-machine, while preventing non-conforming products from leaving the plant. When ASSIST is fully implemented, individually serialized products associated with operator mistakes and/or machine failures will not be cleared for shipment to the end customer. ASSIST integrates with ERP systems to automate the broadcast of production schedules, bill-of-material information, and part/recipe specifications to the factory floor while also providing real-time inventory status information back to the ERP system.
SQUEAKS PI - Production Intelligence
SQUEAKS PI (Production Intelligence) is IGear’s solution for measuring manufacturing performance and contextualizing manufacturing data by work center, product type, production day, shift, machine fault, root cause, and more. With real-time machine connectivity, data is aggregated at various levels of granularity and is published to SQUEAKS in the form of metrics and datasets to be used in SQUEAKS dashboards in an off-the-shelf manner.
Additionally, SQUEAKS PI provides configurable business rules to trigger squeaks messages based on machine data and events in real-time, providing an off-the-shelf data source for escalating alerts and workflows through the SQUEAKS platform. SQUEAKS PI needs only a single part count input to calculate accurate manufacturing performance to include cycle time, downtime, and OEE.
IGear Complements
The Tools You Already Use.
IGear gets the most out of the best-in-class technologies and tools you already have in-place.
We embrace open standards and native protocols to leverage your current technology investments and keep your costs low.
Microsoft Partnership
IGear complements Microsoft products to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, empower workers, and enhance customer satisfaction.
Microsoft 365
Microsoft
Azure
Open AI
Teams + IGear
Running as an app within Teams, SQUEAKS provides real-time, plant floor visibility into what’s important now – escalating critical alerts from machines and drops in performance to ensure nothing important is going to slip through the cracks.
Azure + IGear
CONNECT provides an information pipeline between the technologies and systems on the shop floor to Azure – unlocking valuable data, with context, for cloud-based analytics tools and business applications to take advantage of.
Open AI + IGear
Given today’s labor market, IGear software helps manufacturers leverage the latest in information technology tools such as AI to innovate and solve problems faster with less resources.
Ignition + IGear
After a concerning event is made visible on the Ignition screen, SQUEAKS directs it to the right person in a targeted fashion with workflows that provide guidance and escalation rules that create a greater sense of urgency.
IGear recognizes the importance of timely information in the hands of the right people.
In manufacturing, any number of events can cause a machine to drop out of automatic or a key performance metric to fall short of the goal.
Highlighting where action is required is critical given the importance of uptime,
product quality, customer satisfaction and employee safety.
IGear improves production efficiency and increases profitability by ...
Driving action and
extending visibility of critical events and KPIs
Moving data between technologies for real-time process control
Contextualizing data and events for cloud applications
AI enablement