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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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Smart Manufacturing Benefits Beyond Performance Improvement

Smart Manufacturing is transformational, radically impacting the performance of the manufacturing ecosystem through measurable improvements in areas such as: speed, agility, innovation, quality, costs/profitability, safety, asset reliability and energy productivity. The decision on how to embark on the smart... Continue reading

Posted Dec 13, 2020 at Manufacturing Operations Management Talk

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Smart Manufacturing Champions Must Address Organizational Culture Upheaval

Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash There is very good technology available today that helps manufacturers solve real problems, but that is not what Smart Manufacturing is about. Smart Manufacturing is a transformational opportunity that requires comprehensive cultural change to truly... Continue reading

Posted Sep 23, 2020 at Manufacturing Operations Management Talk

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Digital Supply Chain Resilience Tactics

The implementation of modern manufacturing operations management practices including manufacturing systems, lean manufacturing and six-sigma have improved effectiveness and operating costs within many manufacturing companies. However, it takes an entire supply chain to bring manufactured products to the marketplace and... Continue reading

Posted Aug 29, 2020 at Manufacturing Operations Management Talk

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Top Seven Manufacturing Challenges in 2020

We have been hearing about the promised value of Industry 4.0 for several years. 85% of businesses agree on this potential. However, manufacturing productivity has been flat for the last decade and many industry digital initiatives are stalled. Many manufacturers... Continue reading

Posted Jun 13, 2020 at Manufacturing Operations Management Talk

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Join the Smart Manufacturing Journey

Change is a constant in life and manufacturing is no exception. How do organizations get ready for this coming wave of Smart Manufacturing change and the associated new enabled capabilities, business processes, automation and integration strategies, and business models? What should businesses be doing now and in the next few... Continue reading

Posted Mar 2, 2020 at industry4edge

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Six Trends Accelerating the Smart Manufacturing Future

The Smart Manufacturing future is upon us with intelligent, real-time orchestration and optimization of business, physical and digital processes within factories and across the entire value chain that delivers the end-product. A value chain wherein resources and processes are automated,... Continue reading

Posted Feb 24, 2020 at Manufacturing Operations Management Talk

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Smart Manufacturing Feud Verifies MOM and Digital Twin Popularity

MESA had a recent web event focused on Smart Manufacturing with a game show type of format and an opportunity for the audience to participate through polls. The Smart Manufacturing Community Feud was initially inspired on the Family Feud game... Continue reading

Posted Jan 20, 2020 at Manufacturing Operations Management Talk

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This Industry 4.0 Revolution is Very Different – It’s About Ecosystem Transformation

I experienced the end of the Third Industrial Revolution as I began my career in manufacturing. Closed government and private networks gave way to an open network called the Internet. Numerical Controlled (NC) machines, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), and Personal... Continue reading

Posted Nov 21, 2019 at Manufacturing Operations Management Talk

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Manufacturing Operations Management Takes Center Stage for Industry 4

Many new technologies are being introduced these days into manufacturing, yet the Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)—which has been around for decades—is viewed as a fundamental enabler for the Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 digital transformation.... Continue reading

Posted Jul 5, 2019 at Manufacturing Operations Management Talk

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Talk

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