Manufacturers have always prioritized quality, efficiency, and productivity, relying on human capital to produce products that meet customer demand. Some innovative plants have invested in Industry 4.0 technology, including connecting CNC machine tools, industrial automation, 3D printing, and manufacturing analytics, but it has been far from ubiquitous. In the new normal, this must change. Managing through the […]

OEM Manufacturers, resellers, and distributors see the opportunity to drive revenue growth and enhance customer experience with products and services enabled by IoT Connected products, data, analytics platforms, and APIs. Savvy industrial businesses are gaining competitive advantage by integrating smart technologies in their products and providing digital and Industry 4.0 solutions out-of-the-box. The Go-To-Market Value […]

Smart factories are an opportunity to create new forms of efficiency and flexibility by connecting devices, systems, processes, and stakeholders to optimize current and future supply and demand requirements. This is accomplished by transforming and improving ways in which people, processes and technologies operate to deliver the critical information needed to impact decision quality, efficiency, cost […]

OEE, or Overall Equipment Effectiveness, is a commonly used metric to measure shop floor performance. OEE is a composite metric that combines the availability, quality, and performance, and can be calculated for a device, line, or even for a part. The OEE metric can support decisions to assess normalized performance across a range of assets, […]

The “Digital Thread” identifies the flow of information across the lifecycle of design and manufacturing, going beyond information simply flowing from design to manufacturing, to true bi-directional communication across design and manufacturing. Implementing the Digital Thread in a manufacturing enterprise can radically increase the velocity of NPI by improving how engineering changes are communicated along the […]

The goal of any maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) organization is to get products back in the hands of the customer as quickly and cheaply as possible. However, it’s never easy. Nobody can accurately predict when equipment will fail, (failure prediction is the subject of a lot of industrial AI research; a much longer discussion […]