ITHENA & McNaughton-McKay Electric Company: Digitizing Shop Floor Excellence with Practical AI

ITHENA has partnered with McNaughton-McKay Electric Company, a leading wholesale electrical distributor supporting manufacturers with everything from core electrical infrastructure to advanced automation control systems, to accelerate digital shop floor transformation across manufacturing operations. McNaughton-McKay Electric Company brings deep expertise in industrial automation, integrated equipment, and plant-floor engineering, backed by expert sales and engineering teams personally invested in customer success. Combined with ITHENA’s AI-enabled iGEMBA platform, this partnership helps manufacturers replace manual whiteboards with digital intelligence, bridging the last mile of continuous improvement while enabling lean, scalable, and data-driven operations. Together, ITHENA and McNaughton-McKay Electric Company empower manufacturers to improve plant efficiency, reduce hard operational costs, and adopt Practical AI, delivering a connected, templatized approach to scaling operational excellence from one factory to many.

Where Shop Floor Operations Meet Digital Gemba Execution

Accelerating Digital Manufacturing Excellence
By combining McNaughton-McKay Electric Company’s integrated equipment and automation expertise with ITHENA’s AI-powered iGEMBA platform, manufacturers gain a practical pathway from production floors to digital excellence, driving lean operations, faster decisions, and sustainable performance improvement.

Digital Gemba and Continuous Improvement Transformation

ITHENA’s iGEMBA digitizes daily Gemba walks and departmental KPIs, turning manual processes into structured, real-time workflows. From checklist creation to KPI tracking and issue management, manufacturers gain a smarter, unified view of shop floor performance.

Whiteboards to Digital: Smarter View of Shop Floor Data

iGEMBA enables teams to move beyond static boards by capturing live production insights, generating actionable analytics, and supporting interaction through intuitive data input screens, helping teams fix problems faster and focus on quality and scale.

Integrated Equipment and Process Enablement

McNaughton-McKay Electric Company supports manufacturing environments with automation systems, electrical infrastructure, and engineering expertise, ensuring equipment and processes are connected and ready for digital operations, forming the foundation for scalable iGEMBA deployments.

Analytics at Your Fingertips

iGEMBA’s advanced analytics empower manufacturers to visualize historical KPIs, uncover trends, identify root causes, and optimize daily planning, turning operational data into meaningful business outcomes.

Transform Plant Performance with ITHENA and McNaughton-McKay Electric Company

Powering Digital Gemba and Intelligent Manufacturing
The ITHENA and McNaughton-McKay Electric Company partnership unites industrial automation with AI-driven shop floor intelligence, helping manufacturers modernize operations, bridge the last mile of continuous improvement, and build resilient, data-driven factories for the future.

From Production to Scaled Digital Operations

The partnership enables manufacturers to scale efficiently, standardizing digital Gemba practices and rolling out templatized implementations from one factory to the next.

Reduced Operational Costs and Improved Plant Efficiency

By digitizing performance management and connecting equipment with intelligent workflows, organizations reduce hard operational costs while improving throughput and plant-level visibility.

Practical AI for the Modern Factory

ITHENA’s AI-enabled iGEMBA transforms shop floor data into actionable intelligence, supporting predictive insights, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives aligned with Lean Six Sigma principles.

Future-Ready Manufacturing Foundations

McNaughton-McKay Electric Company’s automation capabilities, combined with ITHENA’s digital platforms provide a first step toward Industry 4.0, creating a connected, scalable foundation for next-generation manufacturing.

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