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DESCRIPTION:<p> </p>\n\n<p>Palletized machines are among your highest-outpu
 t assets and your hardest to track. An operator names a few jobs at the st
 art of a shift\, the cell cycles through them automatically and by day's e
 nd your ERP has no real record of what ran or for how long.</p>\n\n<p>RCO 
 Engineering knows the problem. With roughly 600 employees across multiple 
 campuses and a mixed environment spanning welding\, stamping\, tooling\, m
 old\, EDM and CNC machining for aerospace and contract work\, the team's p
 alletized cells were the hardest to track. Run times went uncaptured and k
 eeping inventory accurate took hours of manual correction at the end of ev
 ery shift.</p>\n\n<p>Join this session to hear from Eric Doyle\, Operation
 s Manager at RCO Engineering\, for a candid look at why standard MES fell 
 short on their most demanding machines and what changed when they augmente
 d Epicor with MES built for palletized machining from MachineMetrics. They
  will share what wasn't working on the floor\, how purpose-built inventory
  tracking brought their material data back under control and gave those ma
 nual hours back and how easier tools in operators' hands\, including Max A
 I to answer floor-level questions on the spot\, changed who actually uses 
 the system and what the data makes possible.</p>\n\n<p>We will close with 
 a look at where shop floor execution is headed next\, including a preview 
 of what MachineMetrics is bringing to IMTS 2026.</p>\n\n<h3>Agenda</h3>\n\
 n<ul>\n	<li>Why traditional MES breaks on palletized machines. When a cell
  cycles through jobs and part numbers automatically\, manual entry can't c
 apture true run times or material use and that's where the data falls apar
 t.</li>\n	<li>MES that augments your ERP\, not replaces it. How RCO layere
 d MachineMetrics onto Epicor and built custom inventory tracking around th
 eir workflow\, rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all template.</li>\n	<l
 i>How visibility turns into decisions. Moving from lagging counts and manu
 al fixes to data leaders can act on\, from reclaiming labor hours to justi
 fying a new palletized cell to quoting with confidence.</li>\n	<li>What's 
 Next. A first look at how the line between ERP planning and shop floor exe
 cution is changing\, ahead of IMTS 2026.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p> </p>\n\n<p> </
 p>\n
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SUMMARY:Traditional MES Wasn't Built for Palletized Machining. RCO Engineer
 ing Found What Was.
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