Making the value of technology clear
Manufacturers desperately want faster results from their Industry 4.0 and digital transformation projects. The promise of lightweight apps sparkles, but most companies lack the essential data infrastructure. So, it was eye-opening to understand what serial entrepreneur John Oskin has been up to at Sage Clarity. These are apps that, after a few weeks’ implementation, can…
Are the next steps of IT/OT convergence at hand? Siemens would say yes. IT and OT are blending more than ever in some new offerings under an umbrella of data-driven manufacturing. Siemens just announced the expansion of their Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) framework into Industrial Operations X. Industrial Operations X includes Industrial IoT, Industrial Edge,…
As a production metrics maven, I’m energized by a recent briefing for Jim Brown and me with Edge2Web, Inc. about their expansion to a second platform and first foray into applications. Now its low-code IoT tools Director and Flow Server run both on Siemens Digital Industries Software MindSphere and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This opens…
Manufacturing is constantly evolving, so how do you define advanced manufacturing? In this podcast episode, Julie Fraser and James Zhang, VP Market Development, Connected Operations at PTC, share their views. It starts with what constitutes advanced manufacturing today and how that has changed. New technologies can play a role, but are not sufficient. How a…
Could your overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) metrics do more to accelerate improvement? Most manufacturers’ can, but not necessarily by doing what they have been doing. Read our eBook, Getting Beyond Percentages to Insights with OEE, to learn more. Please enjoy the summary* below. Please visit our sponsor PTC for the full research (registration required). For related…
Could your production operation be more productive? Sometimes it’s difficult to tell, despite having plenty of data. Sometimes, metrics like overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) don’t even help uncover the hidden factory. Yet, OEE can and should pinpoint opportunities. Find out how to improve more reliably in this June 2021 webcast. Listen in to Tech-Clarity’s Julie…