Might international standards for data exchange and interoperability between trading partners worldwide finally take hold? Could multi-enterprise manufacturing networks get cost-effective data flows in an open, vendor-agnostic network? That’s the intention of International Manufacturing-X Council (IM-X). Michelle Boucher and I had an opportunity to learn about this new consortium of 10 nations from CESMII (The…
MBE Continuity from Engineering to Shopfloor and Back
What is missing in transforming into a model-based enterprise (MBE)? For one thing, continuity from engineering to shopfloor and back. Gaining MBE continuity is a many-faceted challenge. There are people, process, and technology issues to transform. In this on-demand webinar we explored those issues. It will get you thinking about how details of the digital…
Building Internal Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration
Visibility and collaboration are crucial to supply chain success and resilience, but even getting that internally can be a challenge. Join as Julie Fraser facilitates a discussion in MESA’s Smart Manufacturing Community Smart Connected Supply Chain Group on November 29. What are manufacturers doing to see and work both within and beyond the supply chain…
TradeBeyond Expands in Quality, Compliance, and Traceability
Jim Brown and I are intrigued by what consumer products companies and retailers can do to design products and trade more effectively and sustainably after our briefing with TradeBeyond. Their multi-enterprise PLM and supply chain collaboration platform is expanding. By acquiring Pivot88, they strengthened existing industry-specific capabilities, deepened their presence in apparel, and added quality,…
Redefining Semiconductor MES
How do you manage a semiconductor production facility? Most people in the chip industry would say: with semiconductor MES. With its complex processes and products that cannot be clearly seen with the naked human eye, the semiconductor industry began broadly adopting MES in the 1980s and 1990s. And therein lies the problem. The systems that…
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