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…
Archives for May 2023
Achieving Supply Chain Resilience
What could you do to achieve supply chain resilience? What challenges do you face that make it harder to be resilient? What are the impacts of improving resilience? Share your experience. Tech-Clarity is conducting research on supply chain strategies, approaches, and business planning. Can better collaboration, cadence, or technology improve your capability to respond to…
Canvas Envision Takes Work Instructions to New Levels of Ease (Insight)
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…
Sopheon Champions new InnovationOps Movement
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…
Elisa IndustrIQ Combines Advanced Analytics into Established Applications (Insight)
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…