August 9, 2022
State College, PA: KCF Technologies, a leading provider of machine health optimization technology and services, announced today a major milestone – $3 Billion in tracked lifetime customer savings collectively across all industries they serve. Since being founded in 2000, KCF technologies has continuously worked to provide value to help people and enrich society through technology, services, […]
July 20, 2022
State College, PA: KCF Technologies, a leading provider of machine health optimization technology and services, announced strategic investments through its first growth capital round. The benefit to the capital raised will help KCF scale faster with technology development, sustain rapid growth, and continue to push industry beyond predictive maintenance with a full machine health platform. […]
July 12, 2022
State College, PA: KCF Technologies, a leading provider of machine health optimization, announced the appointment of Vijay Gogineni as Chief Technology Officer on June 27, 2022. In his role, Vijay will be responsible for leading the development and execution of all technology for the company, deploying new technologies, and driving strategy for quality assurance and […]
May 23, 2022
State College, PA: KCF Technologies announced today their newest software release, SMARTdiagnostics; a complete redesign of the current platform and the richest, most intuitive machine health optimization software yet. Built-in parallel with world-class manufacturing partners, the all-new SMARTdiagnostics 4 has moved the software from a place to pull data to a feature-rich, intuitive, and connected […]
May 18, 2022
State College, PA: KCF Technologies, a leading provider of machine health optimization platform, and U.S. Well Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: USWS), today announced an industry first integration between electric frac pump control systems for fully automated pump controls. KCF’s fault detection automation engine, MachineIQ, allows U.S. Well Services to run their fleets intelligently and safely. With […]
May 10, 2022
State College, PA: KCF Technologies, a leading provider of machine health optimization platform, today announced its 2022 Automotive Industry Innovation Award for Kenworth’s Chillicothe, Ohio plant. Driven by manufacturing excellence, this award is presented to one industry leader each year that excels in the following criteria: 1. Eliminating downtime, through catching failures2. Increasing productivity, through […]
February 21, 2022
In the manufacturing world, where insights, data, and people converge, one metric sets the standard for accurately measuring the productivity of equipment. That measurement is OEE or Overall Equipment Effectiveness. THE MEASURING STICK 100% OEE reflects perfect production 85% OEE is a world-class, long term goal 60% OEE leaves room for improvement Several factors affect […]
January 28, 2022
by Jeremy Frank and Jacob Loverich TOO LATE While some companies are aggressively adopting AI, most are dabbling with it and planning to pursue a “fast-follower” approach—a strategy where companies wait for the technology and market to mature before pursuing it. This strategy has worked for some technology adoption in the past, but as noted […]
March 24, 2021
The press is the starting point for automotive manufacturing. The function of the press is to quickly and precisely form vehicle body parts. The press crown is the upper structural weldment of a press, containing cylinders that drive the motion of the ram which forms the parts. Any disruption to the operation of the press crown […]
March 18, 2021
A five-year partnership and multi-million dollar investment culminated in a technology breakthrough that is poised to revolutionize the hydraulic fracturing industry. In collaboration with KCF Technologies, FTS International (NYSE American: FTSI) successfully launched fully automated equipment health monitoring and control on an active hydraulic fracturing site. The technology is dubbed MachineIQ™. FTSI COO Buddy Petersen […]
