MES solutions have become integral to the manufacturing industry’s digital transformation — they provide an unprecedented real-time view into how products perform throughout the whole chain of operations. ...
DIGITIZE YOUR OPERATIONS MORE QUICKLY WITH LIGHTWEIGHT IIOT APPLICATIONS. Anyone that has implemented Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) knows that the road to success is long and often paved with potholes. There are many examples of successful MES deployments, but unfortunately, many more that have...
Learn about Industry 4.0 from the our team of digital factory experts. Industry 4.0 refers to more than just the technology that makes up its parts. No matter the technology or devices in use, Industry 4.0 has a couple core capabilities: 1. The use of...
THANKS TO THE RISE IIOT, TODAY’S ANDON SYSTEMS MONITOR ISSUES AND GATHER DATA SHOP-FLOOR KPI IN REAL TIME. Digital andon systems are a long way off from the traditional Andon displays that have been stalwarts of the factory floor environment for decades, faithfully showing the status...
Put People in Roles That Stretch Their Ability John Oskin, President and CEO at Sage Clarity Solutions talks about how his company sets themselves apart as thought leaders in the big data and manufacturing industries with pitches into media, events and other media platforms that gives his...
Industry 4.0 & IoT are transforming not only the manufacturing job market, but also the workplace. Modern manufacturing jobs of today and tomorrow look much different than those of the past. Workers are often relied on to think through complex logistics, analyze manufacturing intelligence data,...
Purdue students integrate Sage Clarity Andon into their manufacturing capstone projects *A version of this article originally appeared in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute's newsroom. Students' final projects require teamwork and use of combined knowledge to solve a real-world challenges. Students at Purdue are using our Next-Gen Andon...
Ever look out over a sea of the machines and equipment and confuse them with twinkling holiday lights? Suffice it to say that too many lights on does not mean Santa's coming to town. Today's world is a hyper-competitive manufacturing environment. Challenges related to maintenance,...
The 1st industrial revolution started in the 1800s with the advent of the steam engine. The 2nd industrial revolution was led by Henry Ford in the early 1900s with mass production. The 3rd industrial revolution began in the 1970’s with the introduction of robotics and...
A lightweight, root-cause IoT solution leans heavily on OPC technology and allows enterprises to simplify control architectures for food and beverage packaging lines. High-volume, food manufacturing lines thrive on standardization to pull through operational efficiencies, be it control architectures, processing systems or supply chains. Managing multiple...
Shallow-dive analytics is a new approach to managing the enormity of big data and the resulting information overload via a one-click, quick review of only the information that is most pertinent to business objectives. By focusing on key performance indicators (KPIs), proponents believe that the...
Executive Summary: Manufacturing Performance OEE Benchmark Study For Fast Moving Consumer Goods Manufacturing organizations undertake a variety of performance improvement initiatives such as Lean Manufacturing, Six-Sigma, TPM and TQM. Organizations leverage KPIs, including Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to manage and measure such initiatives....
High volume, food manufacturing lines thrive on standardization to pull through operational efficiencies, be it control architectures, processing systems or supply chains. Managing multiple plant standardization within an enterprise has been a great challenge for the last twenty years in the food and beverage industry,...
Static to Real-Time KPIs Developing a strategy to migrate from static to real-time KPIs is a journey. We have developed a 5 step process to help companies with this endeavor. Identify your KPIs Take an inventory of KPIs across the business and catalog them. The suggestion is to...
Last year IBM came out with the statistic we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily. In the next few years this number will increase exponentially as companies continue to invest in the "Industrial Internet of Things" (IIoT). Such numbers demonstrate an incredible magnitude of information which can be...
Many business metrics programs use this adage as a rallying cry: “you can’t manage what you don’t measure”. Once an organization determines what to measure, the next step is how to manage. A key component of managing is to apply goals or targets to specific...
Analytics and big data continue to be the rave to improve supply chain performance. With supply chain data available from so many new disparate sources – from supplier quality to manufacturing to global sustainability – performance can be dramatically improved in corporations if there is...
Food Engineering Benchmark Study: March Issue Breakthrough Manufacturing Benchmarking in the Era of Big Data Operational performance benchmarks take numerous flavors. Some studies build a set of relevant questions and have respondents answer based on how they think their plant is performing. These can be valuable since...
When Bill Gates said that “content is king”, these words embraced the feeling over 20 years ago when the internet took shape. Now we can argue that “CONTEXT is king” with collaboration analytics as has been widely published. Photo sharing and messaging is all the...
Several years ago a study by The Advanced Performance Institute entitled 20 Years of Measuring and Managing Business Performance revealed the fact that less than 20% of companies state everyone obtains regular insights (usually using Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs) which improve day-to-day decision making...
