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Interests: digital thread, model-based enterprise, smart manufacturing, industrial internet of things, assembly, inspection, fabrication, discrete manufacturing, aerospace and defense, manufacturing systems, industrial engineering, shop floor operations, integrating engineering and manufacturing systems

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Taking Evolutionary Steps Towards Smart Manufacturing

In a recent article we discussed the hidden treasures within manufacturers’ existing systems. If the organization has already taken steps to go paperless and get the most out of existing systems, what do they work on next? We tend to... Continue reading

Posted Apr 17, 2019 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Hidden Treasures In Plain Sight - at the Manufacturer’s Shelf

There are hidden treasures at the manufacturer’s shelf and we are not talking about the inventory shelf. We are talking in this article about the IT shelf of already owned software that is not being used. More specifically about the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 9, 2019 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Shaping Skills and Culture for the Factory of the Future

The “factory of the future” is not just about implementing new technologies like smart machines, cloud platforms, edge devices, robots, and artificial intelligence. It is about a business transformation that requires a shift in mindset and organizational culture to engage... Continue reading

Posted Dec 11, 2018 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Manufacturing Technology and IT Trends Update - Spring 2018

I was fortunate to participate at several industry conferences this spring listening and speaking with many leaders and practitioners working on innovation initiatives for their manufacturing companies under the general theme of Smart and Digital Manufacturing transformation. A few noteworthy... Continue reading

Posted Jun 22, 2018 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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The Third Dimension of Smart Manufacturing—Value Chain Management

Manufacturers focused on optimizing ecosystems offering new value and service levels to customers might very well end up being the true winners of the smart manufacturing race. Continue reading

Posted May 7, 2018 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Smart Manufacturing - Six Reasons to Not Delay the Digital Transformation

In the past, it was perfectly rational to observe technology innovation as it went through the adoption cycle and wait for early adopters to incur the cost of experimentation of the first wave of adoption. In this article, we discuss... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2018 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Three Dimensions Converge on Smart Manufacturing

- Smart Factory, Digital Thread, and Value Chain Management There is a myriad of new technologies coming into the manufacturing arena, each with tempting value propositions. How does an organization know that they are investing in the right areas to... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2018 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Wishing for more Clarity in Manufacturing Information Technology for 2018

I can start to see the fog lifting in 2018 from over blown value claims and concerns bolstered over the last two years about implementing new information technology in manufacturing. I believe there is good reason to be excited about... Continue reading

Posted Jan 14, 2018 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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What is “Smart” about Smart Manufacturing?

A few decades back we might have asked “What is lean about Lean Manufacturing? But nowadays everyone knows what Lean Manufacturing means and what the guiding principles are. For Smart Manufacturing, we are just starting to educate on the principles... Continue reading

Posted Nov 14, 2017 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Manufacturing Operations Management Software ROI Fuels New Initiatives

Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software remains on the top of the list of prioritized manufacturing investments in surveys by both Gartner [4] and LNS Research [2]. Not only is it on the top of the list, LNS found that 68%... Continue reading

Posted Sep 11, 2017 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Do We Want to Make Manufacturing Great “Again”?

A strong US economy and middle class needs a strong manufacturing sector so I would not expect any arguing about wanting manufacturing to be great. However, when we add “again” to the end of that phrase, we need to be... Continue reading

Posted Sep 2, 2017 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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The Role of Government Supporting Smart Manufacturing

Manufacturing is an important part of the government agenda in many countries because it creates high paying jobs, drives technological innovation, and generates more economic activity than any other sector. The competition for a strong manufacturing industry is a global... Continue reading

Posted Jul 15, 2017 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Notes from the Smart Manufacturing and IIoT Round Table Discussion

I am sharing below some of my favorite highlights from the round table discussions on Smart Manufacturing at the 2017 Manufacturing & Technology Conference at Cleveland. MESA International organized this forum and there were many common discussion threads and questions... Continue reading

Posted May 12, 2017 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Six Innovation Areas Leading to the Model-Based MRO Enterprise

Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) operations are facing a rapidly changing highly competitive environment. In the past, MRO shops could pass the cost of inefficiencies as a “cost of doing business” to the customer, but in the face of higher... Continue reading

Posted Feb 1, 2017 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Reducing Cost of Quality with Integrated MOM and EQMS

– Using Manufacturing Operations Management Software to Reduce Cost of Quality Tackling the price of quality goes beyond reducing the number of defects. It involves evaluating the entire quality management system. Following are some ideas to help manufacturing organizations reduce... Continue reading

Posted Nov 4, 2016 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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An Industrial IoT Architecture Needs Data Distribution, Consolidation and Stream Processing

It is easy to come out of a presentation on “big data” these days thinking that the future of manufacturing operations management and manufacturing IT is a combination of three things: connected machines, data stored in a “data lake”, and... Continue reading

Posted Sep 29, 2016 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Unraveling the Hype on Data Lakes for Industrial IoT

The hype about data lakes, big data and all the great data generated by the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) keeps growing. There are valid use cases for data lakes in manufacturing operations management and the Smart Manufacturing IT framework... Continue reading

Posted Jul 26, 2016 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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How “Smart” Are We in Manufacturing Today?

To make the Smart Manufacturing vision a reality, manufacturers, equipment vendors and software vendors must all embrace standards-based messaging for connecting the resources, applications and partner ecosystem. This need was confirmed in the recent article “Smart Manufacturing Isn’t So Smart... Continue reading

Posted Jul 7, 2016 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Demystifying the Digital Thread and Digital Twin Concepts

The concepts of the digital thread and digital twin have been spearheaded by the military aircraft industry and their desire to improve the performance of future programs by applying lessons learned through these digital technologies in current and upcoming programs.... Continue reading

Posted Apr 20, 2016 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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The Smart Manufacturing Elevator Pitch – Take Two

In a prior MESA blog post [1], Rik Geerts explained how MESA International came up with an abbreviated definition for Smart Manufacturing and how he tried it out with a colleague in the food processing industry. I want to share... Continue reading

Posted Mar 25, 2016 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Finally a Clear Picture of US Manufacturing Comeback!

Thank you Supply Chain Digest [1] for this table with clear numbers. Depending on what case an article wants to make, they might use one column or the other. So it is great to see both the differences since 2009... Continue reading

Posted Feb 29, 2016 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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Eliminating the Hateful Eight Types of Disconnectivity in Smart Manufacturing

“For hundreds of years, humans and machines have worked together. But something peculiar has happened recently: the machines are now speaking to us—and to one another” -- Booz Allen, Vice President at Sedar LaBarre [1] That would be a great... Continue reading

Posted Feb 22, 2016 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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What is Smart Manufacturing? What is Ahead?

This presentation recording from MESA.org provides an overview of insights assembled by the MESA Smart Manufacturing Working Group. Smart Manufacturing is an initiative to bring about a revolution in manufacturing business strategy, turning traditional factories from cost centers into profitable... Continue reading

Posted Feb 19, 2016 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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On the Journey to a Smart Manufacturing Revolution

In the 1970s and 80s we witnessed a revolutionary wave of productivity improvements in manufacturing. New technologies, including personal computers (PCs), numerically controlled (NC) machines, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and computer aided manufacturing (CAM), combined with new process improvement ideas... Continue reading

Posted Jan 20, 2016 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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My New Year Wish – Less Hype for Big Data Analytics, More Buzz for Smart Manufacturing

I know of several good use cases for big data related technology in manufacturing operations management and I am sure there are a few more out there but sorry to break it to you…it is not a magic bullet for... Continue reading

Posted Dec 23, 2015 at Manufacturing Operations Management, Quality and Aerospace Talk

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