IDG Contributor Network: If I can see it, I can fix it

West Liberty Foods’ Mount Pleasant, Iowa plant can slice meat as well as anyone in the world. But two years ago, some of its machinery just couldn’t cut it—or keep running through 16-to-20-hour shifts. As breakdowns occurred, the plant’s older computerized maintenance-management system couldn’t pinpoint problems.Flying blind
“Without calling our facilities, we didn’t know what was happening—we couldn’t see the data,” explains Chad Willi