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5 Ways to Best Leverage Your “Internet of Assets”
I just read one of IDC Manufacturing Insights’ latest top 10 predictions reports, entitled: Operations Technology 2013 Top 10 Predictions. Prediction #6 caught my attention as an interesting...
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The Digital Factory: Bridging the Gap between Planning, Design & Execution
When you think of the factory of the future, what do you envision? The manufacturing pundits often conjure up images of a world where robots roam freely around sterile factories that operate 24×7 with...
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It Pays to Collaborate In Manufacturing
In today’s highly global supply chain and manufacturing economy, it is no revelation that better communications are needed to cross the geographic, cultural and language distances that must now be...
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The Next Step for Global Manufacturing Operations Management
Today is an important day in the history of the Apriso – Apriso has agreed to be acquired by Dassault Systèmes. FlexNet will become an integral part of the DELMIA suite of products. For the past couple...
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10 Tips to Motivate Excellence in Teams
In today’s competitive economy, efficient productivity is everything. This blog has presented numerous examples of systems and methodologies that can lead to exceptional performance to best weather...
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The Power of Pull for Manufacturers
Pull – the New Frontier Many in manufacturing are familiar with the concept of Pull. Well-known examples are the Dell model of Make-To-Order and the Toyota model of “Supermarket” based on Kanban. In...
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Smart Factories: When Machines Text
The manufacturing ecosystem is changing at a rapid pace. Just when you thought technology couldn’t become more entrenched in our lives, machines have started talking to their managers. Imagine this: As...
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5 Key IT Enablers for Enterprise Product Traceability and Containment
The level of product, process, and supply chain complexity in discrete manufacturing is putting the ability to track and trace parts and components throughout the product lifecycle under the spotlight....
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BPM and the Future of Innovation
As many businesses embark on the journey of becoming process-centric, and excel at sharing, implementing and improving processes consistently across their global manufacturing base, the question one...
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How Involved is IT With Your Social Networks?
I follow posts within IDC’s Manufacturing community. One of their recent articles caught my attention – “Social in Manufacturing: Increasing Adoption, But Mixed Signals,” by Kimberly Knickle. The...
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What the 4th Industrial Revolution is all About
I recently read an article written by Alex Enderle (@Alex_Enderle) about the 4th Industrial Revolution and how her company (BOSCH ) considered that the real revolution was the business model and not...
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Establishing a Hierarchy Model for Manufacturing Analytics
W. Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. He gained notoriety in the manufacturing world by his extensive promotion of the “Plan-Do-Check-Act” cycle,...
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Over the past several years you have likely read on this blog and other publications about the virtues of taking a “platform-based” approach to manufacturing operations management. This blog has...
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Manufacturing Transformation and the People Challenge
A recent article at manufacturing.net presents the seven biggest challenges faced by manufacturers today. The first challenge on the list? “Finding good people.” Some things never change. With all the...
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Digital’s Role in Collaboration across Manufacturing
The importance of sharing is a philosophy that has been ingrained into our lives all the way from our early childhood. The famous poem “All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” has this...
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3 Operations Habits of Highly Successful Manufacturing Companies
As activity in the global manufacturing sector continues to grow post the financial crisis of 2007-08, successful in-house operations rest on a few basic factors: keeping costs low, morale high and...
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When it Comes to Packaging, Paperless Manufacturing is an Art. Literally.
You’re in the store, shopping for a household item. You scan the shelves quickly, see the brand you’re looking for, and grab it. Or perhaps you don’t have a specific brand in mind, and you’re attracted...
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In Case you Didn’t Notice … Corporate Accountability just Moved into a Fishbowl
We have always lived in a world where shareholders (and the SEC) demand financial transparency, where global supply chains and business operations require visibility, and where manufacturing strives to...
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Social Networking in Manufacturing: Like or Unlike?
Do you take social networking seriously in your manufacturing enterprise, or is it just another fad? Social networking used to be considered about as far from manufacturing concerns as one could get....
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When Virtual Manufacturing Becomes Reality
If you have any interest in the digitization and automation of manufacturing, you’ll be interested in an interview with a Lockheed Martin executive that I came across recently in the Manufacturing...
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