You're Losing 15 Hours a Week on Your Shop Floor. Here's Where It Goes

AUTOMATE 2026  •  BOOTH 4519

MOST MANUFACTURERS ARE LOSING 15 HOURS A WEEK 

Most manufacturers are not losing time because they have the wrong tools. They are losing it because their tools are not working together.

Chicago, IL, June 22, 2026 – InsITe, the Midwest’s only SMB-focused IT and OT partner, will exhibit at Automate 2026, June 22–25 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. At Booth 4519, the InsITe team will work with manufacturers to identify where production time is being lost and what it takes to start getting it back.

Where 15 hours a week disappears

Research from Siemens, ABB, and MachineMetrics shows that mid-sized manufacturers lose more than 15 hours of productive time every week. The losses fall into three categories:

• Unplanned downtime averaging 800 hours per year, often with no clear owner when a line goes down
• Manual reporting consuming 15 to 30 minutes per operator per shift reconstructing information that has already gone stale
• Delays at the IT and OT intersection, where a vendor says network, the internal team says machine, and the line stays down while they sort it out

Individually each of these may feel manageable. Together they add up quickly. And none of them typically show up on a dashboard.

What InsITe does differently

InsITe brings IT infrastructure, OT systems, and shop floor data into a single accountable framework. Most engagements start with one targeted problem and a measurable outcome. No 18-month rollout. No rip and replace.

Real examples from the shop floor:

• A precision tube manufacturer eliminated daily manual re-keying through an automated pipeline into their ERP, recovering more than 50 minutes per day
• A high-volume food manufacturer recovered 75 to 225 hours per year after their quality module was rebuilt and stabilized
• A food manufacturer cut floor lookup times from two minutes to under one second, unblocking operators across every shift

“You may already have the systems you need. The question is how they work together.”

Visitors to Booth 4519 can walk through how production visibility comes together, explore where delays typically show up on real shop floors, and begin mapping those patterns to their own environment.

Stop by Booth 4519 or visit trustedinsite.com to learn more.

For more information, contact Ryan at InsITe: | 616.947.4596