How mature is your digital approach to manufacturing operations? What are the next steps you need to take on your journey to improve digital support for the plant floor and support teams? Take our Manufacturing Operations Digital Maturity Assessment to find out. The assessment leverages our research to assess your company’s digitalization progress in manufacturing…
Manufacturing Operations
Digitally Transforming the Factory Lifecycle
How can manufacturers digitally transform the way they plan, design, build, and operate their factories? How are Top Performers able to hit their critical program timelines, project spend, manufacturing quality, and agility targets better than Others? This survey of 180 companies explains how leading manufacturers better collaborate, employ digital twins, leverage digital tools, and integrate…
Transforming Manufacturing Engineering
How can manufacturers improve manufacturing engineering performance despite increased complexity? We surveyed 177 people involved in manufacturing engineering to find out. The results show that the leaders in manufacturing engineering have increased maturity in the way they plan, validate, and communicate manufacturing operations. These Top Performers waste less time on non-value-added activities, find issues sooner,…
Three Characteristics of MES that Support Eight Aspects of Industrial Competitiveness
What do manufacturers need in MES to be competitive both today and in the future? Hint: it goes well beyond strong functional support and into what may sound like buzzwords, but are truly crucial architectural elements. In this paper, we group them into three elements: digital thread-ready, personalized, and leveraging a comprehensive digital twin. Each…



