Blog & Featured Article’s
Welcome to our blog, where innovation meets insight. Dive into our collections, from expert interviews in ‘Manufacturers Make Strides’ to the latest Tascus product updates and educational resources designed to elevate manufacturing excellence. Explore, learn, and lead the change with us.
Our Recent Blog Posts:
May 2025 Manufacturing Update: Tascus + Project Highlights
At Metis Automation, we’re focused on two things: Evolving Tascus to stay ahead of how manufacturers work Supporting teams bringing smart, high-quality products to life In this manufacturing software update, we’re sharing the latest improvements to Tascus, and...
Tascus MES Update – May 2025 Release Highlights
We’ve just rolled out the latest Tascus MES software update (v23.8.0.12), packed with features that improve digital work instructions, simplify QA sign-offs, and strengthen production traceability. If your factory still relies on paper processes or struggles with...
Debunking the Profit vs. Planet Myth
Explore how Industry 4.0 bridges the gap between profit and environmental sustainability, debunking the myth that they can’t coexist.
Tighten Multiple Fasteners in One Quick and Easy Step
With the aim of making it simpler to control the process of tightening multiple fasteners in one process, we’ve just published a Tascus update that enables you to tighten a batch of fasteners in one Tascus step. Configuring a Batch Tighten To tighten a batch of...
Dynamic Data & Digital Work Instructions
We've just released a new feature to Tascus Manufacturing Execution System. It enables manufacturers to add dynamic data to digital work instructions. During the manufacturing process, you can eliminate the use of notepads to track measurements, readings and other...
Updated Production Views, Best Before Dates & ERP Integration
We've included a number of new features in Tascus 1.2.5.3 to enable integration with ERP systems, create serial numbers, updated Best Before Dates, and more clarity on the production status report. Best Before Dates Best Before Dates (BBD) can now be configured in...
Tools for the Manufacturing Daily Stand Up Meeting
Tools for Manufacturing Daily Stand Up MeetingsHaving regular and effective daily management is one of the key things to make sure that you hit your manufacturing goals and achieve your production target - weekly, monthly and quarterly. Within daily management, one...
How Can Manufacturers Work Remotely?
Remote working has been popular with software companies and freelancers for the past 10 years, but it hasn't really taken off yet with manufacturers. With the current global pandemic of coronavirus, most government advice is to remote work where possible. So, in this...
New MES Features to Improve Manufacturing Productivity and Quality
We’ve had a busy couple of months at Metis Automation developing new MES features for our flagship paperless manufacturing software product Tascus. In January, we began a series of customer interviews to get feedback on what features we could add that would bring...
Education & Resources
How Can Manufacturers Work Remotely?
Remote working has been popular with software companies and freelancers for the past 10 years, but it hasn't really taken off yet with manufacturers. With the current global pandemic of coronavirus, most government advice is to remote work where possible. So, in this...
‘Manufacturers Make Strides’ interviews
Inside a micro manufacturing business with Mike Adkins
Micro manufacturing often sits in a different position to larger operations. In this episode, Martin is joined by Mike Adkins, owner of Performance Results Plus, to talk about how a micro manufacturing business can stay steady over time. Mike shares his experience of...
Why Good Designs Fail with Dianna Deeney
In this episode of Manufacturers Make Strides, the conversation focuses on manufacturing design collaboration and what happens when design and production teams work too far apart. Dianna Deeney, a quality and reliability engineer, talks about why siloed working still...
Breaking the Firefighting Cycle in Manufacturing
Manufacturing process improvement often focuses on what happens on the shop floor, but many of the challenges that teams face begin much earlier in the process. In this episode of the Manufacturers Make Strides podcast, Samantha Benbow shares her experience working...
Making Change Stick in Manufacturing with Ron Crabtree
Manufacturing Change Management affects every part of a factory, from day to day operations to long term improvement. In this episode, we speak with Ron Crabtree, a long time practitioner who has worked across shop floor environments and complex transformation...
Run your manufacturing business like you’re going to sell it with Adina Fetche
Manufacturing business growth can mean many things depending on the size of the company, the people involved and the structure supporting day to day work. In this episode, Adina Fetche talks about what helps manufacturers build a strong base for steady progress. She...
Building Better Engineering Teams with Marisa Kurimbokus
Engineering teams work differently depending on the people involved, the environments they operate in and the pressures around them. In this episode, Marisa Kurimbokus talks about how teams in manufacturing can function well, what helps them collaborate and what...
Managing complexity in aerospace engineering with Mark Cook
Aerospace engineering brings together complex design, strict regulation, and long production timelines. Unlike faster-moving sectors, aerospace programmes are shaped by safety requirements, certification processes, and close coordination across engineering, supply...
Building a Manufacturing Business That Lasts with Larry Dix II
Manufacturing leadership often looks different in owner-led businesses compared to large corporate environments. Decisions are closer to the work, accountability is more personal, and the impact of leadership choices is felt quickly on the factory floor. This...
What a financially healthy factory actually looks like
Manufacturing businesses often look busy on the surface, yet still feel uncertain beneath it. In this episode of Manufacturers Make Strides, Martin speaks with Stewart Ervin about what financially healthy manufacturing actually looks like in practice.The conversation...
How values shape modern manufacturing with Angelo D’Amico
Values-driven manufacturing is often discussed, but less often described in practical terms. In this episode of Manufacturers Make Strides, the conversation focuses on what it looks like when values guide decisions in real manufacturing environments. The discussion...
Product Updates
May 2025 Manufacturing Update: Tascus + Project Highlights
At Metis Automation, we’re focused on two things: Evolving Tascus to stay ahead of how manufacturers work Supporting teams bringing smart, high-quality products to life In this manufacturing software update, we’re sharing the latest improvements to Tascus, and...
Tascus MES Update – May 2025 Release Highlights
We’ve just rolled out the latest Tascus MES software update (v23.8.0.12), packed with features that improve digital work instructions, simplify QA sign-offs, and strengthen production traceability. If your factory still relies on paper processes or struggles with...
Tighten Multiple Fasteners in One Quick and Easy Step
With the aim of making it simpler to control the process of tightening multiple fasteners in one process, we’ve just published a Tascus update that enables you to tighten a batch of fasteners in one Tascus step. Configuring a Batch Tighten To tighten a batch of...
Dynamic Data & Digital Work Instructions
We've just released a new feature to Tascus Manufacturing Execution System. It enables manufacturers to add dynamic data to digital work instructions. During the manufacturing process, you can eliminate the use of notepads to track measurements, readings and other...
Updated Production Views, Best Before Dates & ERP Integration
We've included a number of new features in Tascus 1.2.5.3 to enable integration with ERP systems, create serial numbers, updated Best Before Dates, and more clarity on the production status report. Best Before Dates Best Before Dates (BBD) can now be configured in...
Tools for the Manufacturing Daily Stand Up Meeting
Tools for Manufacturing Daily Stand Up MeetingsHaving regular and effective daily management is one of the key things to make sure that you hit your manufacturing goals and achieve your production target - weekly, monthly and quarterly. Within daily management, one...
New MES Features to Improve Manufacturing Productivity and Quality
We’ve had a busy couple of months at Metis Automation developing new MES features for our flagship paperless manufacturing software product Tascus. In January, we began a series of customer interviews to get feedback on what features we could add that would bring...
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