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What Makes a Successful Digital Leader?
Here's five traits that a digital leader must have. The digital future is arriving quickly. Will you be ready to lead the charge?
September 21, 2021
Category: Digital Enterprise
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Are You a Digital Disruptor or a Follower?
Here are five suggestions to help you take charge of the digital transformation now underway in manufacturing, helping you become the digital disruptor.
September 07, 2021
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Is it Time for a New Manufacturing Operating Model?
The proliferation of IIoT devices has changed the manufacturing landscape and is now challenging the manufacturing operations model. Will your manufacturing applications be able to support this new model or are they built assuming that the CIM pyramid will stand as long as the real ones have?
August 25, 2021
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How Lessons Learned from the Coronavirus Pandemic Can Drive Future Growth
Here are four lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic that can be leveraged to drive new growth opportunities.
August 11, 2021
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MES vs IIoT: Don’t Confuse an IIoT Platform with an MES Platform
A modern MES built on a microservices architecture with embedded intelligence is well-positioned to best leverage a capable IIoT platform.
July 27, 2021
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Supplier Quality Management is the First Building Block of EQMS
A well-designed SQM program delivers more than just a steady stream of on-spec parts although that by itself adds considerable value.
July 22, 2021
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The Digital Enterprise: Manufacturing at the Tipping Point
The pandemic revealed how important agility is for manufacturers to operate in a volatile environment – and how critical it is to become a digital enterprise.
July 20, 2021
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Five Trends Shaping the Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing Industry
These are just a few of the important trends in a rapidly transforming industry. Aerospace & Defense is being thrust into disruption and innovation, but the good news is that digital technology has matured and is ready to respond to the new environment.
July 15, 2021
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Evaluating the Total Cost of Ownership of an On-Premises MES
When choosing between an on-premises or a cloud-based MES, there's pros and cons to each. This article takes a deep dive into total costs to be considered.
June 08, 2021
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Understand the Opportunity Cost (Risk) of Deferring an MES Software Upgrade
Those managing manufacturing operations may think its better to delay upgrading their MES, but by understanding the opportunity cost or risk of deferring an MES upgrade, however, might lead to a different conclusion.
February 24, 2021
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Avoid Technical Debt by Rationalizing Your IT/OT Architecture
Each industry may have additional environmental factors as will companies that may have corporate technology standards. Therefore, it's important to pick a set of suppliers that can exist in a compatible ecosystem while minimizing the technical debt associated with a multi-vendor IT/OT architecture.
February 18, 2021
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Q&A on The Importance of Software Acceptance Testing Webinar
The theme of our fourth educational webinar, The Importance of End User Acceptance, was a reminder of how important it is to engage with those who will be using an MES or any other IT system as part of the implementation. Here's a summary of what was discussed.
February 16, 2021
