Dotson Iron Castings is a company built on a rich and diverse history that goes back to 1871 when a German immigrant brought his family to Mankato, Minnesota. In 1876, Laurence Mayer, a blacksmith, established a growing business just 300 feet from their current operations, and today, 120 tons of ductile iron are produced daily.
Dotson Iron Castings was one of the first foundries to apply ePVS, an Industry 4.0 analytics platform that analyzes the production process, and see real results.

ePVS gives Dotson advance notice of parts that may be wearing out, things that might have changed, or settings that may have been changed at one point or another. They have seen a 10% improvement in their mold productivity, and they have reduced their preventive maintenance time by 18%, allowing them to succeed in making their technologies more efficient. ePVS has helped them decrease their downtime, giving their maintenance technologies the opportunity to fix things before they break, and giving them the ability to plan out their maintenance better.
Dotson explains that ePVS is a great analytics program for them. “It gives us bright prospects on what we can do and what the future holds for maintenance that is less reactive and more preventive.”