The Latest on IIoT and Digital Transformation

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is an internationally recognized metric that provides an easily-measurable method of evaluating and quantifying the efficiency of a manufacturing process. This makes it possible for factory managers to identify ways to maximize the efficiency of their processes through better maintenance, improved protocols, and more streamlined procedures. OEE not only allows factories…

To stay competitive in today’s market, businesses are continuously evaluating their production processes and identifying ways to improve reducing cost, increasing revenue and innovation speed. Companies that create an intelligent digital twin of their enterprise will more efficiently manage and compete in today’s global economy: significantly improving operational insight, increasing productivity, and easing integration with…

The events of the past two+ years made significant changes to just about everything in our daily life. Our routines changed. We were subjected to a steep learning curve of new concepts, new approaches and new tactics including major shifts in how we work and live. Unforeseen challenges for global manufacturing aren’t over. The shift…

In our interactions with multi-location global manufacturing enterprise customers and engagements in their operations, we hear the urgency of their need to implement innovative solutions that significantly improve the management of production barriers, ideas, and shop floor meeting cycles. The fundamental goal is to accelerate their overall processes from identifying the issues to ensuring proper…

We live and work in a fast-moving, increasingly interconnected and digital world. With the advent of the pandemic, the need for digitalization and technological advancements was significantly accelerated. We saw major developments in 2020 and 2021 that have greatly impacted the business world, particularly the manufacturing sector, and with more advancements to come in 2022.…

In our most recent blog post (What’s All the Fuss Over Digital Twins?),  we explored the rationale for an explosion of interest in Digital Twin technology particularly in the manufacturing sector, and how these virtual copies of your physical assets are a new means to leverage  the insights and intelligence hidden in raw operational data…

According to a Gartner survey*, 50 percent of large manufacturers would have had at least one digital twin initiative launched by 2020, and the number of organizations using digital twins will triple by 2022. Why is there such a growing interest in Digital Twin? There is still widespread lack of connectivity in factories globally. According…

CRISIS & OPPORTUNITY Much has been written and said about the pandemic and its global ripple effects on everything from employment to the supply chain to the economy, and more. We’ve all lived this in real time, so we won’t rehash any of those details with you here. The oft-repeated looming question in everyone’s mind…