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Beyond products to customer experiences

Increasingly, manufacturers have focused on adding value with solutions and services.  With Apple as the shining example, this has now gone a step further for many – to a mission for creating...

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Have the Life you Want with Manufacturing Disciplines: Introduction

Today I had the honor of speaking at a TEDx conference, and my topic was how to have the life you want with manufacturing disciplines.  The concept is pretty simple – apply some of the disciplines of...

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Managing Programs for Profit – What Works?

How can you be effective and profitable in an environment where each product you make may be Making complex and sensitive equipment to special order requires excellent project and program coordination...

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Sustain Operational Excellence with Software

Sustaining improvement requires needs plenty of information support. Every manufacturer wants to maximize profits. This means you need to have low costs and capacity and available capability to...

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Doing Projects and Programs Right… Rare but Possible

Better on-time and on-budget performance means you are nearly 10 times as likely to improve net operating profit dramatically too! Vision without action to achieve it can be frustrating. If you manage...

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Face-to-Face Energizing Info Flows

MESA’s unConference sessions sparked new questions and fostered broader learning. Business travel can be a grind. Yet I am always energized by being face-to-face with others who care about information...

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Expanding horizons from plant to supply chain

Make appears in the center of the supply chain – but is a very different world Many software companies expand out from their initial functions to support a broader process. The question is, how easy...

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Expanding for Collaboration in 2015

Can real product design collaboration include engineering and manufacturing working together? Collaboration – sounds like nothing new, but I believe it is. Manufacturers are just starting to have...

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Realities for UDI and Beyond

UDI Lessons Learned Webcast with Jay Crowley and Cathi Crist was a revealing look at what companies need to do The #1 concern that keeps medical device professionals awake at night is compliance with...

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Moving production to 3D – even in smaller companies

With 3D PDFs, you can rotate, turn annotation on and off, and really see a design. For years, those in manufacturing have used 2D drawings to annotate and show critical product information such as...

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What can you imagine?

Steven Levine VP of Strategy explains The Living Heart project that he’s spearheading. He presented on November 12, the day FDA signs 5-year agreement with the group of researchers, industry and...

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Have MES Come of Age?

Have we learned enough to succeed consistently? It’s the age-old question for manufacturing execution systems and operations management systems (MES/MOM). The technology is mature enough, but the...

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Terminology danger zone

The Terminology Danger zone is where software is called something that people actually do, or terms open for misinterpretation. When I say ‘collaboration’ do you think of working as a team, conspiring...

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Integrating Virtual to Real – 30-year Vision

The concept is easy but most have not executed the virtual-to-real mirror. Do you have any visions from 30 years ago that are still not quite reality? I do. A vision that product and process design...

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Can you See the Silver Lining in Compliance?

When you see clouds, do you see the silver lining as well? Compliance can be an opportunity. The old adage is “every cloud has a silver lining.” Finding the positive in what is typically considered a...

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Does MES/MOM have a role in Industry 4.0?

After many interviews and discussions, MES appears to me to be essential to success with Industry 4.0 or other future factory visions. If smart materials are talking to smart machines to become smart...

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Manufacturing Mimics Nature – or tries to at least

A pitcher uses all senses plus an array of knowledge to adjust for each pitch. This is a big data challenge. Think about the most complex, carefully controlled and fine-tuned systems on the planet....

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Scope, Granularity and Scale

We need to see both the details and the larger picture; people in business need software to help. Can you understand and solve a broad or large-scale problem with a high-level, low granularity view?...

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Scope, Granularity and Scale

We need to see both the details and the larger picture; people in business need software to help. Can you understand and solve a broad or large-scale problem with a high-level, low granularity view?...

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Bury and Dribble Out Big Data Analytics for Useful Results

Big data is best buried and dripping so people can make use of it in a tasty way. Photo © Damdeeso Dreamstime The hype around big data analytics has reached epic proportions. It does have the potential...

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