Making the value of technology clear
I feel rejuvenated after a briefing with Apprentice. Their Tempo suite is a fresh approach that marries the latest enterprise mobile and SaaS technologies with composable applications for pressing industry issues. Yes, there’s a SaaS MES – but there is more for the plant, quality lab, enterprise, and manufacturing network. It serves the product lifecycle,…
What most contributes to supply chain resiliency? What are the challenges and impacts of doing it well? Can better collaboration, cadence, or technology improve manufacturers’ capability to respond to disruptions? What does it take to recover with operational continuity and minimal negative impact? What is the role of departments beyond Supply Chain? Tech-Clarity is conducting…
How can manufacturers improve manufacturing engineering? We surveyed 177 people directly involved with manufacturing engineering and found that modernizing processes and technology drives higher manufacturing engineering productivity and performance. These improvements are crucial to profitability in the industrial equipment industry as customers demand high quality, more personalized products at increasingly faster time to market; all…
Jim Brown, Michelle Boucher, and I got an introduction to Canvas GFX and its Envision product for interactive work instructions in a recent briefing. The question I, as the manufacturing analyst had, was: Can a system for model-based interactive work instructions really be easy enough for non-engineering users to embrace? Canvas GFX says yes, and…
We’ve been talking about operationalizing innovation for some time. It’s a crucial need because, as our research shows, innovation for products and services is among the top factors driving long-term business success. It can’t be left to organic inspiration or luck. It must be targeted and driven to provide a repeatable, scalable market advantage that…
Jim Brown and I are jazzed up after learning about how Elisa IndustrIQ is combining the data management and analytics of the parent telco to strengthen already successful manufacturing applications. This combination of data structures, analytics algorithms for AI and ML, and applications that serve specific industries’ needs can deliver very high value. Elisa IndustrIQ…