Making the value of technology clear
It was exciting to attend my first Aras Corporation ACE User Conference with Jim Brown. The conference was held in Miami, which provided a welcome relief from Boston’s long, cold winter. More importantly, it was great to learn more about Aras’ strategy and products, especially from the Aras leadership team, including their new CEO, Leon…
What are many manufacturers missing to succeed in digital transformation, smart manufacturing, and successful artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives? A common foundation for reliably getting the right data and information to the right place at the right time. In short, what’s often missing is enterprise-grade industrial connectivity. Normalizing, organizing, and making available the massive amounts of…
What do asset-intensive businesses need to manage the supply chain uncertainty they face? IFS believes it’s better warehouse software, and completed its acquisition of Softeon last month. Operating as a standalone company rebranded as IFS Softeon, the company is staying intact while gaining the backing of a credible enterprise software giant with strong AI…
Why do audits continue to find problems after appropriate root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective and preventative actions (CAPA) processes are complete? MetaFloor AI argues that there is a missing capability to capture and consistently reuse causal data for process intelligence. Their AI-based platform uses a causal graph with AI to not only capture process…
Where are manufacturers focusing their AI initiatives? We surveyed over 250 manufacturers to find out, and we’re sharing a preview of the findings in an upcoming webinar on April 28th. What is the current state of AI readiness from a data, organizational, and technical perspective? Are manufacutrers prioritizing the plant, R&D, engineering, the front office,…