A little girl was helping her mother prepare a ham for a holiday dinner. She noticed her mom cutting the ends off of the ham for no apparent reason before she put it in the pan. When she asked her mom why she did this, her mom responded because that is how grandma does it. […]
A dashboard provides a quick way to view the overall performance of your plant, whether it is operational or financial. Very quickly, you are able to drill into any area of concern. But their development is not as straight forward as people would like. Often times projects fail because a lot of time and resources […]
Digital Transformation has become a rather common term in business conversations. There are many ways in which an organization can realize a digital transformation. It does not need to be expensive or complex. A digital transformation can be something simple, like digitizing current paper documents or adding workflow systems. At its core, digital transformation is […]
Peter Drucker is a well known management consultant and author whose work continues to be used by modern companies. One of his more famous quotes is, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”. A corollary to this “you can’t control what you can’t measure”. This is certainly true within manufacturing and process […]
Asset management is one of the best areas to start an IIoT journey. Many of the concepts of IIoT have existed within asset management for many years. The journey is the fundamental basis of a Reliability Centered Maintenance strategy. To those in reliability, the journey should seem familiar. For those that are not, take note […]
